American Sugar Refining acquires C & H Sugar Company

The addition of C & H will bring American Sugar Refining's annual capacity to approximately 3,000,000 tons of refined sugar and specialty products.

11/08/05 American Sugar Refining, Inc., based in Yonkers, New York, has completed the acquisition of C & H Sugar Company, Inc.. American Sugar Refining is owned by Florida Crystals Corporation and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida.

C & H operates a cane sugar refinery in Crockett, California.  American Sugar Refining owns three other refineries in Yonkers, New York, Baltimore, Maryland and Chalmette, Louisiana.  The addition of C & H will bring American Sugar Refining's annual capacity to approximately 3,000,000 tons of refined sugar and specialty products.

The C & H(R) brand is the West Coast's premier sugar brand.  Domino Foods, the sales and marketing arm of American Sugar Refining and Okeelanta Corporation, will add C & H(R) to its brand portfolio that already includes the Domino(R), Florida Crystals(R) and Jack Frost(R) brands.

This acquisition gives Domino Foods a national platform to better serve its customers through a broader distribution and logistics infrastructure.  It will enhance American Sugar Refining's competitiveness coast to coast and in the U.S.-Mexican market created by NAFTA.

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