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 ...

He was a school dropout at 14 and homeless for a spell, but as a driven investor and chief of Dole he became a billionaire. Later came another quest: to extend life through better nutrition. By Glenn ...

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 ...

All people really needed, David H. Murdock often said, was more determination. To win the war against obesity, people needed to train their brains to say no to sugar and carbohydrates and yes to large ...

(Bloomberg) -- David Murdock, a high school dropout who became a billionaire as proprietor of one of the biggest private corporate empires in the US, has died. He was 102. He died on June 9, according ...