Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Sugar Daddy was created in 1925 by The James O. Welch Company and was originally called a "papa sucker." In 1932, the company changed the candy's name to Sugar Daddy. According to Tootsie Roll Inc, the name change suggested "a wealth of sweetness." [1] The James O. Welch Company was purchased by Nabisco (now Mondelēz International) in 1963.
The original sugarhouse was on the left, now the site of an Aldi supermarket [a] [1] Tate & Lyle syrup refinery at Plaistow Wharf, 2009. Together with four partners he purchased the sugar house of the defunct Greenock Sugar Refining Company in 1865, forming the Glebe Sugar Refinery Company, and so added sugar refining to his other business ...
The first sugar refinery in Bristol was started in 1607, when Robert Aldworth founded a single pan refinery. [35] Sugar trade and refining would become the main source of prosperity for Bristol in the 18th century. At one time, there were some 20 refineries in Bristol. [36] In Liverpool, the first sugar refinery was established in 1667. [37]
The derivation of the word "sugar" is thought to be from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā), meaning "ground or candied sugar," originally "grit, gravel". Sanskrit literature from ancient India , written between 1500 and 500 BC provides the first documentation of the cultivation of sugar cane and of the manufacture of sugar in the Bengal ...
William Havemeyer (1770-1851) left Germany at age 15 and arrived in New York City after learning the trade of sugar refining in London.In New York he managed a sugar house on Pine Street before opening his own refinery on Vandam Street with his brother, Frederick Christian Havemeyer, who had come to New York in 1802.
In 1807, the brothers opened their own sugar refining business called W. & F.C. Havemeyer Company on Vandam Street. [2] In 1859, the business moved to the waterfront in Williamsburg, and changed its name to the Havemeyer, Townsend & Co. Refinery. The company processed slave-grown sugar canes. [3] By 1864, the refinery was the most modern of its ...
His father began his own business in 1807, establishing one of the first sugar refineries in New York City, on Vandam Street between Hudson and Greenwich Streets in the modern-day neighborhood of Hudson Square. In the same year, he took out his naturalization papers. [2] The younger Havemeyer grew up near the family sugar refinery. [4]
The Nederlandsche Suikerraffinaderij NV (NSR) (English: Dutch sugar refinery) was an Amsterdam sugar refining company that refined sugar cane to produce white sugar and other sugar products. After its closure, its main sugar refinery became part of the Amstel Suikerraffinaderij and later was part of the Wester Suikerraffinaderij.