Chiquita Brands released financial and operating results for 2011, reporting full-year comparable income of $38 million and GAAP income of $57 million on net sales of $3.1 billion.
A new national study of eating out and income shows that fast-food dining becomes more common as earnings increase from low to middle incomes, weakening the popular notion that fast-food should be blamed for higher rates of obesity among the poor.
Fast food alone cannot be blamed for high obesity rates among people with low incomes, according to a new UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research study.