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The history of sugar in Liverpool and the effects of the closure of the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, Love Lane
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February 2011 is the 10th annniversary of Marie Brenner’s IN THE KINGDOM OF BIG SUGAR.
When Tate & Lyle announced in July 2001 that it was selling off its Domino Sugar refinery operations in Brooklyn New York to an investment group dominated by a Cuban family with extensive cane growing interests in Florida, it hardly registered as a news story outside of the extraordinary world of sugar. Nine years later on July 1st 2010 the announcement from company headquarters, Sugar Quay in London, was that the former Sugar Giant had sold its European sugar operations to American Sugar Refining Inc. Who are the main interests behind ASR? Does that have anything to do with the Fanjuls?
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Monday, February 28th 2011
Tate & Lyle, one time Imperial Sugar Giant sings “Bye, Bye Sugar, Bye Bye”!
In a Corporate profile of April 1989 Tate & Lyle was described as “the world’s largest sugar company” and listed as “the 15th largest foreign investor in the United States”. Today we woke up to the announcement that a sugar free era dawns for Tates. I wonder what John Maclean would have made of it? There he is below on the left sat next to his great pal Albert E Sloane.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Thursday, July 01st 2010
Mr Cube went down to Georgia
I’ve been in Athens, Georgia USA talking about the downsized Mr Cube and could hardly resist the urge to say a little bit more about how the (so called) “socialist hydra” he helped defeat in 1949/1950, is nothing to compare with BIG SUGAR in America today.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Sunday, March 28th 2010
Last day of Black History Month 2009
One of my regrets at the end of Black History month is that two powerful films about modern day sugar slavery, Bill Haney’s “The Price of Sugar” and Amy Serrano’s “Sugar Babies” have not been allowed to shock a wider audience. The stark political fact however is that they have come up against formidable vested interests that seek to “cease and desist” documentaries deserving of the oxygen of world publicity. Read on!
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Saturday, October 31st 2009
The AMTRAK view of Mr Cube on the eve of his 60th birthday party
I’ll be on a train to Salt Lake City to watch Everton play the MLS All Stars when Mr Cube reaches 60 so here are a few more thoughts on the significance of tomorrow’s anniversary.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Monday, July 27th 2009