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  Sugar Land, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sugar Land is the hometown and an area represented by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of the United States House of Representatives, Texas District 22.
Sugar Land Regional Airport (formerly Sugar Land Municipal Airport) was purchased from a private interest in 1990 by the city of Sugar Land.
Sugar Land's composition of the City Council consists of a Mayor, four councilmembers to be elected by single-member districts and two councilmembers by at-large position.
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 Imperial Sugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imperial Sugar is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer with refining operations in California, Georgia and Louisiana.
They are currently headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, to the southwest of Houston, which is named for the company.
The company no longer refines sugar at its original plant in Sugar Land but their corporate headquarters are still located in its founding city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_Sugar   (158 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: IMPERIAL SUGAR COMPANY
The Imperial Sugar Company, which refines raw cane sugar at its huge plant at Sugar Land, is the oldest extant business in Texas.
The partnership changed the name to Imperial Sugar Company; Kempner associated the name Imperial, which was also the name of a small raw-sugar mill on the Ellis Plantation, with the Imperial Hotel in New York.
Imperial began to operate its plants on three shifts, but growth was limited by shipping costs, which became prohibitive beyond Kansas.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/II/diicy.html   (1272 words)

  
 Imperial Sugar Company - Diff Betw Sugar and Sugars
Sugar (sucrose) is all natural and is refined through a purification process that separates 99.9% pure sucrose from the plant matter of the sugar cane or sugar beet.
The terms "sugar" and "sugars" are frequently confused and misused today by consumers, the media, health and nutrition professionals.
Sugar is one of many sweetener choices on the market today but not all sweeteners are sugar.
www.savfoods.com /fw/main/Carbohydrates-128.html   (290 words)

  
 NOVELL CUSTOMER SHOWCASE: Imperial Sugar
Imperial Sugar Company is one of the largest sugar refiners and processors in the United States, with 2002 sales of $1.29 billion and approximately 10,000 customers worldwide.
With two cane sugar refineries, two beet sugar factories and two packaging facilities – as well as other warehouse, distribution and terminal facilities – Imperial Sugar's ability to reliably supply customers is unmatched in the industry.
Imperial Sugar has faced formidable challenges as the economics of the sugar business have changed, with profit margins between refined and raw sugar growing razor thin.
www.novell.com /success/imperial_sugar.html   (1289 words)

  
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Beet sugar factories are located near the areas in which beets are grown in order to reduce freight costs and the risk of deterioration before processing.
Sales of refined sugar are moderately seasonal, normally increasing during the summer months because of increased demand of various food manufacturers, including fruit and vegetable packers; shipments of specialty products (brown and powdered sugar) increase in the fourth calendar quarter due to holiday baking needs.
Imperial Sugar Company is the largest processor and marketer of refined sugar in the United States and a major distributor to the foodservice market.
bankrupt.com /imperial.txt   (2821 words)

  
 Imperial Sugar Company - Company Profile - Food Business Review
Imperial Sugar operates in two domestic business segments, the sugar segment, which produces refined sugar and related products, and the foodservice segment, which sells numerous products to foodservice customers.
Its sugar brands include Savannah Gold, a brown sugar marketed primarily to industrial customers; Sucanat, which is sugar produced from organically grown sugarcane; and specialty sugars used in confections, fondants and icings.
Imperial Sugar is now well past the major transition of the past few years, but we are far from finished making improvements.
www.food-business-review.com /companyprofile.asp?guid=6FEBE0F7-48E1-4267-813A-F03836C46787   (769 words)

  
 Click2Houston.com - Money - Imperial Sugar To Close Plant, Lay Off Workers
SUGAR LAND, Texas -- The Imperial Sugar Co. announced Tuesday that it is laying off hundreds of its employees and halting its operations at the Sugar Land facility.
The company said that it will provide Sugar Land-area employees with outplacement counseling and assistance and that details of the separation package will be announced when negotiations between Imperial Sugar and union representatives are completed, and union members have ratified the agreement.
With 2,210 employees across the country before the deal, Imperial Sugar is one of the largest processors and marketers of refined sugar in the United States.
www.click2houston.com /money/1816888/detail.html   (658 words)

  
 BI Journal - Best Web Services Solution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Imperial Sugar Company is one of the largest processors and marketers of refined sugar in the United States.
Imperial Sugar built a customer-facing extranet that would make order processing and product information, such as shipment arrivals, available and easily accessible to its customers in real time, at any time.
By building Imperial Sugar’s extranet with Novell exteNd, a standards-based Web application development and deployment platform for rapidly building advanced applications that integrate existing systems, the company was able to create more efficient, Web-based processes that are still unmatched in the sugar industry.
www.bijonline.com /BestWebServicesSolution.asp   (913 words)

  
 08-08-01: Imperial Sugar wins court approval of chapter 11 recovery plan
Imperial Sugar sought Chapter 11 protection from creditors in January, after missing a payment on a $250 million loan.
The confirmation ``is not likely to be followed by liquidation or further reorganization,'' said James C. Kempner, president and chief executive of Imperial Sugar, in an affidavit presented to the judge.
Later that month, Imperial Sugar agreed to sell its Michigan Sugar Co. unit for $55 million in cash, $10 million in deferred payments and assumption of about $18 million in bond debt.
www.sweetbeet.com /growernet/News_Events/Articles/2001/080801_b.htm   (331 words)

  
 VisioBrand - Official Site - Imperial Sugar Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
All the information about Imperial Sugar Company presented on the Visiobrand site is only verified information from the official Imperial Sugar Company source.
The secret is keeping the amounts of sugar small and using it in recipes to help provide a rich, full flavor, says the Association.
Sugar Land--an appropriate name for the city that serves as headquarters for one of the nation's largest sugar producers-is the home of Imperial Holly Corporation.
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 Line56.com: Imperial Sugar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sugar Land, Texas is home to a 150 year-old sugar industry, incarnated today in the form of Imperial Sugar -- a $1.5 billion (sales) company that is the largest manufacturer of refined sugar in the United States.
At this point, Imperial Sugar could have become one of the many enterprises caught in the morass of ERP rollout, a process that can take several years and steadily suck away at IT budgets.
When it comes to the technology itself, Imperial Sugar's intention was to "keep it plain vanilla." The company identified the ERP modules it wanted, stayed away from bells and whistles, and also avoided the best-of-breed approach.
www.line56.com /articles?ArticleID=4012   (914 words)

  
 Sugar Land, Texas
Around the turn of the century, most of the sugar cane crops were destroyed by a harsh winter.
Visitors are able to observe the complete sugar manufacturing process in one of the few remaining sugar cane refineries in the United States.
Sugar Land's Museum of Southern History recalls the history of Sugar Land and Fort Bend County.
www.lone-star.net /mall/txtrails/sugarland.htm   (686 words)

  
 01-16-01: Imperial Sugar, affiliates file Chapter 11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In papers filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware seeking Chapter 11 protection from creditors, Imperial listed consolidated assets of $1.1 billion and debts of $775.1 million, including an unsecured claim of $263.5 million for bond debt for which U.S. Trust in Dallas, Texas, is the indenture trustee.
At that time, Imperial said it was in talks with creditors and considering a possible bankruptcy filing.
A company spokesman, reached at Imperial's Sugar Land, Texas, offices, said he was unable to comment but added that a statement would be issued shortly.
www.sweetbeet.com /growernet/News_Events/Articles/2001/011601_a.htm   (196 words)

  
 Imperial unloads Sugar Land refinery - 2005-02-18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sugar Land-based Imperial Sugar (Nasdaq: IPSU) has reached a preliminary agreement to sell its 160-acre former refinery site in Sugar Land to Cherokee Sugar Land LP -- a joint venture between W.C. Perry Land Development LP and Cherokee Investments Partners LLC.
Imperial shuttered the refinery, known as the Pink Lady, in December 2002 after 159 years of operation.
Imperial is one of the largest processors and marketers of refined sugar in the United States to the consumer, industrial and foodservice markets.
www.bizjournals.com /houston/stories/2005/02/14/daily45.html   (717 words)

  
 Hispanic Business - Imperial Sugar Rolls Out Hispanic Marketing Program Across Texas and The Southeast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Imperial Sugar Company sells several of the best-known brands of sugar in the industry: Imperial(R) Sugar in the Southwest; Dixie(R) Crystals in the Southeast; Pioneer(R) Sugar in the Great Lakes region; Holly(R) Sugar in the West; Spreckels(R) Sugar in California, plus Wholesome(TM) Sweeteners -- the national leader in organic sweeteners.
The Imperial Sugar Company is one of the largest processors and marketers of refined sugar in the United States and a major sugar distributor to the foodservice market.
Imperial Sugar has been recognized and trusted in the food industry for more than 150 years, as the company's history dates back to the mid-1800s.
www.hispanicbusiness.com /news/newsbyid.asp?id=13303   (610 words)

  
 Developer hires consultant to study Imperial Sugar site - 2005-06-20   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cherokee Sugar Land LP has selected developer Richard P. Browne to create the vision and master plan for the historic Imperial Sugar site in Sugar Land.
Imperial Sugar announced in February that it had reached an agreement to sell the 160-acre Fort Bend County site to Cherokee, which is a joint venture between W.C. Perry Land Development LP and Cherokee Investments Partners LLC.
For the Sugar Land project, the developers and Browne will be setting up meetings with neighborhood associations and business over the next several weeks to receive input before creating and recommending a master land plan for the site late this summer.
www.bizjournals.com /houston/stories/2005/06/20/daily2.html   (580 words)

  
 Imperial Sugar Company - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
Imperial Sugar occupies a sweet spot in its field, manufacturing such well-known brands as Dixie Crystals, Imperial Sugar, Pioneer Sugar, Savannah Gold, Sucanat (milled from organic sugar), Spreckels Sugar, and Wholesome Sweeteners.
Imperial filed for and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001.
There are 17 competitors for Imperial Sugar; see more.
www.hoovers.com /imperial-sugar/--ID__13747--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (247 words)

  
 Sugar Knowledge International Limited SKIL
Sugar Knowledge International Limited, known throughout the world's sugar industry as SKIL, was established in 1980 to provide consultancy services to the cane sugar sector.
The company, however, jealously guards its independence from any sugar group and is one of the few truly independent organisations offering professional services to the sugar industry internationally.
It is difficult to identify a single project as typical of the work undertaken by the company because of the diversity shown in the project listings.
www.sucrose.com   (486 words)

  
 Imperial Sugar builds customer-facing extranet
With sugar prices doubling to 11 cents a pound in 2000, then falling throughout 2001 to under 5.5 cents a pound at the end of February 2002, this would be a strategic pursuit on a shoestring.
Imperial set out to do what in the past would have likely cost $3 million, using outside resources.
Imperial Sugar is the largest sugar refiner in the U.S., with $1.6 billion in sales in 2001—double that of its closest American rivals, Florida Crystals and American Crystal Sugar.
www.baselinemag.com /article2/0,1540,661563,00.asp   (968 words)

  
 New York firm likes taste of Imperial Sugar - 2004-10-25
A New York investment firm has amassed about 10 percent of Imperial Sugar Co. 's common stock and may aim to exert some control over the Sugar Land-based company's actions.
Imperial CEO and President Robert Peiser this week said he believes Schultze owns slightly more than 10 percent of the Houston-area company's roughly 10.4 million shares.
The firm believes Imperial's stock "is substantially undervalued," according to the SEC filing signed by George Schultze, who is managing member of the business that bears his name.
www.bizjournals.com /houston/stories/2004/10/25/story3.html   (683 words)

  
 Imperial Sugar sweetens the pot with marketing, packaging blitz - 2003-11-17
Sugar Land-based Imperial Sugar Co. is targeting the Hispanic market with the roll-out of a new marketing campaign for its Dixie Crystals and Imperial Sugar product lines.
"Opening up sugar packages can be a mess, in the car, in the store, in the pantry, plus most people put sugar in their own canisters, something that makes us think our packaging is inferior," says Art Saxby, vice president of marketing for Imperial.
Imperial has in turn been helping the station with certain programs, including a Halloween program at the Children's Museum of Houston, where Imperial gave away children's cookbooks.
www.bizjournals.com /houston/stories/2003/11/17/newscolumn5.html   (721 words)

  
 Imperial Sugar Company - Dixie - Detail
Dixie Crystals® Granulated Sugar is made from the finest quality raw cane sugar available.
In the hands of a six-year old, a spoon full of sugar almost always resulted in a terrific mess, but not anymore.
This free-flowing brown sugar with a sweet, full-bided flavor is made with all natural ingredients.
www.savfoods.com /fw/main/Dixie__Detail-79.html   (659 words)

  
 ABC 33/40 Alabama's News Leader - Imperial Sugar Receives Acquisition Offer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Imperial Sugar Co. said Thursday that a New York investment company has expressed an interest in acquiring the company's outstanding shares for $17 per share.The unsolicited offer from Schultze Asset Management LLC sent Imperial Sugar shares surging 19 percent — $2.50 — in late trading Thursday to $15.43.
Schultze owned 1.44 million company shares, or about 10 percent of the outstanding total, as of March 21.
Imperial Sugar, which processes and markets refined sugars, said its board will evaluate the offer by Schultze, which is based in Purchase, N.Y. Sugar Land-based Imperial markets sugar under the Imperial, Dixie Crystals, Spreckels and Holly brands.
beta.abc3340.com /news/stories/0505/229727.html   (272 words)

  
 ABC News: Imperial Sugar Receives Acquisition Offer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Imperial Sugar Receives Unsolicited Offer From New York Investment Firm
SUGAR LAND, Texas May 19, 2005 — Imperial Sugar Co. said Thursday that a New York investment company has expressed an interest in acquiring the company's outstanding shares for $17 per share.
The unsolicited offer from Schultze Asset Management LLC sent Imperial Sugar shares surging 19 percent $2.50 in late trading Thursday to $15.43.
abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=774075   (154 words)

  
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 Imperial Sugar Company - Hyperactivity
It used to be that people thought that ADHD was a psychological disorder.
It used to be thought that ADHD could be caused or made worse by food additives and/or sugar in the diet.
Free Flowing Compressible, Flavored, Granulated & Powdered Sugars
www.imperialsugar.com /fw/main/Hyperactivity-117.html   (391 words)

  
 Imperial Sugar Company - Home
Imperial Sugar Company Declares $0.05 Per Share Regular Quarterly Cash Dividend Payable November 23, 2005
Imperial Sugar Company Completes Sale of Holly Sugar Subsidiary
It's easier than ever to borrow a cup of sugar...or sprinkle sugar...or store sugar...
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