British Sugar
| British Sugar
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|---|---|
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| legal form | Daughter of AB Sugar |
| founding | 1936 |
| Seat |
Peterborough , UK
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| management | Mark Carr |
| Branch | Sugar industry |
| Website | http://www.britishsugar.co.uk/ |
British Sugar is the only UK manufacturer of sugar made from sugar beet . The company is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods and was founded in 1936 by the Sugar Industry (Reorganization) Act . British Sugar was privatized in 1981 and taken over by Associated British Foods in 1991.
Sugar factories
Only four of the original sugar factories remain:
- Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk)
- Cantley (Norfolk) - the UK's first sugar mill
- Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire)
- Wissington (Norfolk) - the largest sugar factory in Europe
Bury St Edmunds
Cantley
Newark-on-Trent
The parent company AB Sugar also has sugar factories in China, Spain ( Azucarera Ebro ), Poland ( Czarnikow ) and South Africa ( Illovo Sugar ).
Web links
- Early newspaper articles on British Sugar in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Executive Team ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History
