In 1899, Harvard graduate James Dole came to Hawaii to grow coffee, but his failed plan B turned him into the “Pineapple King” and built a pineapple empire that became famous worldwide

In 1899, 22-year-old Harvard graduate James Drummond Dole arrived in Hawaii hoping to make his fortune growing coffee. Instead, his coffee experiment failed and pushed him toward another crop that would eventually make his name synonymous with pineapples. What began as a 61-acre agricultural gamble ultimately became one of the world's best-known pineapple empires.

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