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Imperial Sugar Company is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer based in Sugar Land, Texas, with sugar refinery operations in California, Georgia, and Louisiana. The company was established in 1843 and has undergone ownership changes multiple times.
Kempner served as the vice president and treasurer of Imperial Sugar. [4] In 1948, Imperial Sugar named him as their president. [1] While serving in that role, Kempner oversaw a campaign to modernize Imperial Sugar's business activities. He launched a $4 million expansion that sought to tap into the high demand for sugar following the end of ...
In 1905, Kempner and fellow Galveston businessman William Lewis Moody Jr., established the American National Insurance Company; [2] However, by 1908, Kempner had sold his shares in the insurance company and with his family members, and a partner, William T. Eldridge, purchased a sugar plantation and mill in the area that would become the company town of Sugar Land.
Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, where 14 people were killed and forty injured when a dust explosion occurred in 2008 [12] Haʻikū Sugar Mill, Maui, Hawaii, a processing factory for sugarcane from 1861 to 1879; Waialua Sugar Mill (1865-1996), Oahu, Hawaii
Imperial Sugar's refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia, was a four-story structure on the bank of the Savannah River. Imperial, based in Sugar Land, Texas, had bought the refinery and its brand name in 1997 from a previous local owner. Known since construction as the Dixie Crystal refinery, it was the main employer in Port Wentworth, a town of ...
Sugar companies of the American sugar industry. Involved in the agriculture, processing, &/or distribution of cane sugar &/or beet sugar in the U.S. Subcategories
Sugar was a luxury in Europe until the early 19th century, when it became more widely available, due to the rise of beet sugar in Prussia, and later in France under Napoleon. [56] Beet sugar was a German invention, since, in 1747, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf announced the discovery of sugar in beets and devised a method using alcohol to extract ...
Michigan Sugar operates four beet sugar factories, located in Bay City, Caro, Croswell, and Sebewaing, and operates three shipping and distribution centers in Michigan and the adjacent state of Ohio. The firm has a permanent employment headcount of 700 employees, to which are added 1,500 additional seasonal employees during the times of year ...