• Ed Makin (r),  President and CEO of Lantic Sugar, is taken on a tour last year of the new Imperial Sugar Refinery by John Sheptor, President and CEO of Imperial Sugar.

    Imperial Sugar in Collaborative Global Partnerships

    Imperial Sugar Company is continuing to expand its global network of collaboration with technical exchanges on-going with Lantic Inc. in Canada, British Sugar in the United Kingdom, and Pfeifer & Langen in Germany.

  • Trish Winebrenner Brings Disciplined, Strategic Focus to Boost Sales

    Trish Winebrenner Brings Disciplined, Strategic Focus to Boost Sales

    Texas businesswoman Trish Winebrenner has focused her career on effectively streamlining sales and marketing processes of a spectrum of Fortune 500 companies. Now, she is bringing her operational expertise to the sales area of Imperial Sugar Company.

  • Employees Come to Aid of Fellow Worker

    Employees Come to Aid of Fellow Worker

    When one of their own suffers, employees at Imperial Sugar Company step up and step in. That was the case when Jerry Tolito, a maintenance manager at the company’s sugar refinery in Gramercy, La., was injured in a motorcycle accident and required several pints of blood.

  • Wholesome Sweeteners Project Non-GMO Verified

    Wholesome Sweeteners Project Non-GMO Verified

    Think about the last time you were in a supermarket. Did you notice how shoppers studied the labels? Bet you were one of them, making an informed choice. Product labels tell consumers a lot: where the food comes from, who made it, what’s in it and how it’s produced.

  • USDA Responds to Tight U.S. Raw Sugar Market

    USDA Responds to Tight U.S. Raw Sugar Market

    The USDA has announced that sugar entering the United States under the fiscal year 2011 raw sugar import tariff-rate quota will be permitted to enter U.S. Customs territory beginning September 1, 2010, a month earlier than the usual first entry date of October 1.

  • Honing Their Craft On and Off the Job

    Honing Their Craft On and Off the Job

    Well-tuned engineering skills certainly have their place on the job – as well as in the heat of competitive racing. Just ask master technician Kevin Todd and house engineers Wade Lambert and Onell Lousteau at Gramercy, La.

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  • USDA Announces Next Steps on Sugar Beets

    USDA Announces Next Steps on Sugar Beets

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced the agency’s next steps in response to a recent court decision on Roundup Ready sugar beets.

  • Honing Their Craft On and Off the Job

    Honing Their Craft On and Off the Job

    Well-tuned engineering skills certainly have their place on the job – as well as in the heat of competitive racing. Just ask master technician Kevin Todd and house engineers Wade Lambert and Onell Lousteau at Gramercy, La.

  • Sara Lee Removes High Fructose Corn Syrup from Top Brands

    Sara Lee Removes High Fructose Corn Syrup from Top Brands

    Sara Lee is removing high-fructose corn syrup from its two best-selling bread lines — Soft & Smooth and 100% Whole Wheat — because mothers asked them to, reports the Chicago Tribune.

  • Sugar Is Safe and Useful Part of Balanced Diet

    Sugar Is Safe and Useful Part of Balanced Diet

    In a 15-page letter to the Secretaries of the the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, The Sugar Association supports its view that sugar in moderation is “a safe and useful part of a balanced diet and healthful lifestyle.”

  • Judge Bans Planting of Genetically Engineered Beets

    A federal judge on Friday banned all future plantings of genetically engineered sugar beets in a ruling that, if upheld, could have a broad effect on production of future crops, reports Reuters.

  • P&G to Introduce Sugar Cane-Based Packaging for Cosmetics

    Procter & Gamble is planning to use sugar cane-based plastics for packaging on its Pantene Pro-V, Covergirl and Max Factor brands from next year.

  • August 2010 WASDE Report on Sugar

    August 2010 WASDE Report on Sugar

    Projected U.S. sugar supply for fiscal year 2010/11 is increased 506,000 short tons, raw value, from last month, due to higher beginning stocks, production, and imports, reports USDA in its August 12 WASDE report.

  • Lonnie Champagne, general manager of Louisiana Sugar Growers and Refiners, Inc.

    Looking for a Resurgence in Cane Farming

    With rows of sugarcane standing tall beside him, Lonnie Champagne, general manager of Louisiana Sugar Growers and Refiners, Inc., sees a new era ahead for farmers of this Louisiana mainstay crop.

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  • Ed Makin (r),  President and CEO of Lantic Sugar, is taken on a tour last year of the new Imperial Sugar Refinery by John Sheptor, President and CEO of Imperial Sugar.

    Imperial Sugar in Collaborative Global Partnerships

    Imperial Sugar Company is continuing to expand its global network of collaboration with technical exchanges on-going with Lantic Inc. in Canada, British Sugar in the United Kingdom, and Pfeifer & Langen in Germany.

  • Trish Winebrenner Brings Disciplined, Strategic Focus to Boost Sales

    Trish Winebrenner Brings Disciplined, Strategic Focus to Boost Sales

    Texas businesswoman Trish Winebrenner has focused her career on effectively streamlining sales and marketing processes of a spectrum of Fortune 500 companies. Now, she is bringing her operational expertise to the sales area of Imperial Sugar Company.

  • Employees Come to Aid of Fellow Worker

    Employees Come to Aid of Fellow Worker

    When one of their own suffers, employees at Imperial Sugar Company step up and step in. That was the case when Jerry Tolito, a maintenance manager at the company’s sugar refinery in Gramercy, La., was injured in a motorcycle accident and required several pints of blood.

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  • ConAgra Makes the Switch to Sugar

    ConAgra Makes the Switch to Sugar

    ConAgra Foods, one of Imperial Sugar Company’s top 10 industrial customers, has removed the high-fructose corn syrup from every bottle of its Hunt’s ketchup products and replaced it with liquid sugar from Imperial Sugar.

  • Tom Wilson, technical services manager, listens carefully during a customer audit.

    Customer Audits Require Fine-Toothed Focus

    A large food or beverage company, such as Sara Lee or Coca-Cola, doesn’t do business with just any supplier. That’s why before a food manufacturer begins purchasing bulk quantities of any ingredient, a supplier must undergo a rigorous audit to win customer approval – and ultimately, the business.

  • Dub Allen and his son, Brandon Johns, take a close look at the old Dublin Dr. Pepper delivery truck at the 119th Birthday Party for Dublin Dr. Pepper.

    Celebrating a Long, Sweet Tradition

    Imperial Sugar Company (ISC) helped long-time customer Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company cap off a week-long celebration of its 119th anniversary. Dublin Dr Pepper is the first Dr Pepper bottling plant and the longest-running, soft drink bottler in the world.

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  • Imperial Sugar’s Online Coupons Gain Popularity

    Imperial Sugar’s Online Coupons Gain Popularity

    Imperial Sugar Company (ISC) has typically distributed coupons in newspapers or shopping fliers to reach customers. Today, these free-standing inserts (FSIs) are complemented by the company’s increasingly popular e-coupons – and consumers are the better for it.

  • Robert Burch took home the institute’s top honor, the prestigious Director’s Award.

    Imperial Sugar Team Leader Takes Home Prestigious Award

    For the 33rd year, the Cane Sugar Refiners’ Institute met for two weeks this summer at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. And at the end of it, ISC process engineering team lead Robert Burch took home the institute’s top honor.

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