California and Hawaiian Sugar Company
- California and Hawaiian Sugar Company
The California and Hawaiian Sugar Company (C&H) was founded in 1906 and operated from 1921 to 1993 as an agricultural cooperative marketing association owned by the member sugar companies in Hawaii. In 1993, the member companies sold their interests in C&H to Alexander & Baldwin in Honolulu, and the refining company's status changed from a cooperative to a corporation. Alexander & Baldwin subsequently sold its majority share to an investment group in 1998, retaining a 40% common stock interest in the recapitalized company. In 2005, all the common stock shares were sold to American Sugar Refining (ASR), a company owned by Florida Crystals and the Sugar Cane Growers Co-op.
The C&H brand is one of the leading sugar brands in the company's markets (where it is not the de facto leader), largely due to ads stressing their exclusive use of cane sugar, believed by many to be superior to sugar from the sugar beet.cn|date=November 2007
C&H's primary market is west of the Mississippi River in the United States, although some sugar is sold in various east coast stores. A number of high-profile restaurants, bakeries and hotels have C&H sugar shipped to them where it is not available through local distribution channels. More than 100 types, grades, and package sizes are sold within the two major groupings of grocery and industrial products. The refinery at Crockett, California, refines, packages, and markets all of the output from Hawaii's sugar factories.
External links
* [http://www.chsugar.com/ C&H Sugar]
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