Tate & Lyle
- Imported cane
- 1.3 million tonne quota
- 2 factories
- Continuous operation
British Sugar
- UK grown beet
- 1.144 million tonne quota
- 9 factories
- Processing campaigns
Both operate within EU sugar regime
British Sugar
- 23,000 directly/indirectly employed
- Beet average = 194,000 football fields
- 8m tonnes beet processed
- 4500 loads/day
- 10,000 tonnes sugar/day
- As much effluent as 1.3m people
- Generate electricity equivalent to use of 200,000 homes
UK market
Retail 500,000 tonnes Industrial 1,600,000 tonnes Consumption growth despite:
- retail decline
- sugar substitution
Service progress - basics
Measurement of performance
Product quality
Simplifying trading:
- managing inventory
- paperless trading
Service progress - extras
- Sugar handling
- Energy purchase and management
- Effluent cost reducton
- Waste reprocessing/eliminafion
- Logistics
- Sweetener systems
Product development
- Add value
- Increase consumption
- Competitive advantage
Respond to changing markets
No food manufacturer buys sugar for its sweetening property alone
Properties of sucrose
Physical
- Bulk density
- Colligiative properties
- Colour crystallinity
- Dielectric constant
- Osmotic pressure
- Solubility
- Vapour pressure
- Viscosity
- Water activity
Chemical
- Antioxidant
- Fermentation
- Flavour
- Flavour enhancement
- Purity
- Sensory properties
- Sweetness
Change functionality
- Non-dissolving
- Non-sweet
- Change particle size
Combining sugar and...
- Colours
- Flavours
- Other ingredients:
- processing solutions
- product performance
Sugar makes you fat and rots your teeth!
No added sugar - a product claim!
These myths are not supported by the scientific evidence
Sugar Bureau - working to close the gap
- Health professional organisations
- Media
- Food industry
- Retail
EU sugar regime
- 'Renewed' until 2001
- Annual support price review
- Annual quota review
- To ensure GATT compliance
Anticipate quota cuts and support price reduction by 2001
Beyond 2001
- Regime change driven by GATT
- EU enlargement
- Likely that structure will be retained but with lower support
- levels
UK sugar industry
Developing to meet the challenge of change
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