You could try turning that array into a associative array with the fruits as keys and the number of occurrences as values. Bit long-winded, but it looks like:
$array = array('apple', 'orange', 'pear', 'banana', 'apple',
'pear', 'kiwi', 'kiwi', 'kiwi');
$new_array = array();
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if(isset($new_array[$value]))
$new_array[$value] += 1;
else
$new_array[$value] = 1;
}
foreach ($new_array as $fruit => $n) {
echo $fruit;
if($n > 1)
echo "($n)";
echo "<br />";
}