 Thousands of workers came to the north coast as a result to work in banana plantations and other businesses that grew up around the export industry.Banana-exporting companies, dominated until 1930 by the Cuyamel Fruit Company, as well as the United Fruit Company, and Standard Fruit Company, built an enclave economy in northern Honduras, controlling infrastructure and creating self-sufficient, tax-exempt sectors that contributed relatively little to economic growth.American troops landed in Honduras in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and 1925.