Who owns California and Hawaiian Sugar?
California and Hawaiian Sugar Company is an American sugar processing and distribution company. Originally organized as a cooperative in 1921, it encountered a severe decline in sugar markets and passed through a series of owners in the last half of the 20th century. Who owns California and Hawaiian Sugar? The California and Hawai’ian Sugar Company…
California and Hawaiian Sugar Company is an American sugar processing and distribution company. Originally organized as a cooperative in 1921, it encountered a severe decline in sugar markets and passed through a series of owners in the last half of the 20th century.
Who owns California and Hawaiian Sugar?
The California and Hawai’ian Sugar Company was founded in 1906 and operated from 1921 to 1993 as an agricultural cooperative marketing association owned by the member sugar companies in Hawai’i. Its headquarters are in Crockett under the Carquinez Bridge in unincorporated Contra Costa County, California.
Since 2005, it has been owned by American Sugar Refining (ASR Group). ASR is formed by a partnership between two cane sugar producers from Florida, Florida Crystals Corp. and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, each holding 64% and 36% of ASR.
ASR is one of the largest producers of refined sugar in the U.S. and claims to be the world’s largest cane sugar refiner. It owns and operates Sugar Mills in the U.S., Mexico, and Belize. It also owns and operates eleven Sugar Refineries in six countries: the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England, Italy, and Portugal. Some of their famous brands include Domino, Florida Crystals, Tate & Lyle Sugars, and Lyle’s cane syrups.
