• Sugarbeet Growers Tour Imperial’s Rebuilt Refinery

    Sugarbeet Growers Tour Imperial’s Rebuilt Refinery

    A group of 22 members of the American Sugarbeet Growers got a close look at Imperial Sugar Company’s rebuilt state-of-the-art sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, near Savannah, Georgia.

  • New Refinery Strengthens Louisiana Sugar Industry

    New Refinery Strengthens Louisiana Sugar Industry

    “This is a great day for our sugar industry and for Louisiana,” said Governor Bobby Jindal, who keynoted the recent groundbreaking of the new Gramercy plant. “Sugar is an important part of our history and it’s an important part of our future.

  • The Vision for the New Louisiana Sugar Refinery

    The Vision for the New Louisiana Sugar Refinery

    The three leaders of the joint venture to build the new Louisiana Sugar Refinery at Gramercy, La., took time from ground breaking events on Wednesday, February 3, to talk about their vision for the new million-ton-per-year cane sugar refinery.

  • Louisiana Sugar Refining: A New Era of Competitive Strength

    Louisiana Sugar Refining: A New Era of Competitive Strength

    Alan Willits, President, Business Unit Leader, Cargill Corn Milling North America, Lonnie Champagne, General Manager, Louisiana Sugar Cane Products and John Sheptor, President and CEO of Imperial Sugar at groundbreaking of new Louisiana Sugar Refining plant.

  • New Refinery Continues Sugar Town’s Legacy

    New Refinery Continues Sugar Town’s Legacy

    When David Reynaud steps outside his office at the News Examiner in Lutcher, Louisiana, to catch a quick smoke, he can hear the sound of massive steel pilings being driven into the ground. That sound is coming from the new sugar refinery being constructed in the neighboring town of Gramercy.

  • CEO John Sheptor's Remarks Before Shareholders

    CEO John Sheptor’s Remarks Before Shareholders

    Remarks by John C. Sheptor, President and CEO of Imperial Sugar Company, at annual shareholder’s meeting, January 29, 2010.

  • News

  • Study Questions Sucralose Stability in Bakery

    Bakery formulators who use ingredients like glycerol or fats should exercise caution when using sucralose, suggests a new study from Canada.

  • Sugar Shortage to Persist

    Asia is at the heart of the global sugar supply crunch, while Russia and the United States are also likely to face big shortfalls this year, reports Reuters from London.

  • Goldman Lifts Sugar Price Hopes

    Sugar producers should sell into the strong market, Goldman Sachs has said, even as it raised its forecasts for prices of the sweetener for the next 12 months, reports Agrimoney.com.

  • Sugar Plantation in Hawaii Gets Reprieve

    Sugar Plantation in Hawaii Gets Reprieve

    Alexander & Baldwin Inc. won’t stop farming sugarcane on Maui this year despite huge financial losses incurred in recent years — but it’s still uncertain how much longer Hawai’i’s last sugar plantation will exist.

  • Europe to Release Excess Sugar

    Europe to Release Excess Sugar

    BRUSSELS – The European Commission on Wednesday proposed the release of half a million extra tonnes of sugar for export — more than a third of its normal annual quota — because of “exceptional market conditions.”

  • Bright Food’s CSR Acquisition On Track

    The $1.4 billion acquisition of Australia’s largest sugar refinery CRS Ltd. by China’s Bright Food is still on track, the Shanghai-based food maker has said.

  • Brussels to lift sugar exports amid shortfall

    The European Commission plans to allow European farmers to export an additional 500,000 tonnes of sugar before the end of July to ease a worldwide supply shortage that has driven prices to their highest levels for almost 30 years, reports The Budapest Business Journal.

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  • Customers

  • How to Meet 100 Clients in Three Days

    How to Meet 100 Clients in Three Days

    When Jim Evans of Imperial Sugar Company needs to meet with his 200-plus foodservice distributor customers, he has a choice to make. Does he rack up the expenses and travel days that are needed to crisscross the country to visit each customer?

  • Houston Celebs Promote Imperial Frosting

    Houston Celebs Promote Imperial Frosting

    Just before Christmas, local celebrities mixed it up with customers at the River Park HEB grocery store in Sugar Land, Texas. They were whipping up batches of Baker’s Supreme all-natural premium frosting mix recently launched by Imperial Sugar.

  • Homemade Frosting Never Tasted So Good

    Homemade Frosting Never Tasted So Good

    Initial feedback from consumers says Baker’s Supreme – an all-natural premium frosting mix – is a hit. That’s the consensus after Imperial Sugar Company partnered with two grocery store chains to market test the new product.

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    Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal speaks of the economic development value to his state of the new Louisiana Sugar Refinery.
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    Leaders of Imperial Sugar Company, Cargill and Louisiana Sugar Growers talk about the new Louisiana Sugar Refinery at Gramercy.

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  • Groundbreaking Set for Large, New Sugar Refinery

    Groundbreaking Set for Large, New Sugar Refinery

    Even as heavy machinery and workers are doing preliminary work, construction officially gets underway Wednesday, February 3, in Gramercy, Louisiana, on what will become one of the largest capacity sugar refineries in the United States.

  • The Sweet Success of Stevia

    The Sweet Success of Stevia

    A year after stevia was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a range of stevia-sweetened products are on their way to market. Overall sales are growing as a result: Market research firm Mintel expects stevia sales to jump from $21 million in 2008 to upward of $2 billion by the end of 2011.

  • New Web Site Delivers News of LSR Refinery

    New Web Site Delivers News of LSR Refinery

    A news and information Web site has gone online to provide a steady flow of updates on construction and other developments for the new million-ton-per-year sugar refinery at Gramercy, Louisiana.

  • Concern Among Sugar Beet Growers

    A sugar beet grower near Powell, Montana, says a potential ban on planting or processing Roundup Ready sugar beets is a “critical” event that could cripple the U.S. sugar industry along with local economies.

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