David Murdock, the billionaire businessman who reinvigorated the iconic Dole Food fruit brand, helped rebuild Kannapolis after the collapse of former textile giant Pillowtex, once owned a Hawaiian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Murdock, the billionaire CEO of Dole Foods and developer Castle & Cooke, in 2006. (Stephen Osman / Los Angeles Times) In his ...

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In his astonishing rags-to-riches life, it seemed there was little David Murdock could not do by sheer determination. The billionaire financier who transformed Dole into the world's largest producer ...