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Boston Sugar Refinery, East Boston, Massachusetts; Domino Sugar Refinery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York is a mixed-use development and former sugar refinery in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York (1882-2004), replaced structures built 1856 and destroyed by a fire. Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins, Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
American Sugar Refining, Inc. and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida acquired Domino Sugar from Tate & Lyle for $180 million on November 6, 2001. [11] American Sugar Refining also owns two of its former major competitors, the California and Hawaiian Sugar Company (C&H Sugar), purchased in 2005, and Jack Frost (National Sugar Company ...
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In the late 19th century, sugar refining in the United States was controlled by the American Sugar Refining Company. The federal government attempted to take antitrust action against the company, but was blocked by the Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. E. C. Knight Co. in 1895. [8]
In 2001, Domino Sugar officially changed its name to Domino Foods, Inc. [11] The same year, Domino Foods was sold by Tate & Lyle to American Sugar Refining, a new company created in 1998 and unrelated to the prior firm by that name, and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida in a $180 million deal [16] that was closed on November 6, 2001.
Factory laborers quarters, with cane areas of Hacienda Luisita in background, 1929 Aerial view of Central Azucarera de Tarlac, circa 1930s. During the American period, the hacienda supplied almost 20% of America's sugar from 1898 to the 1940s (from the Spanish–American War until World War II) back when the Tabacalera still owned it. [6]