Michigan Sugar Company Revenue and Competitors

Michigan Sugar Company was formed in 1906 when six independent, single factory, sugarbeet companies merged. In 2002, our Company became a cooperative, owned by approximately 1,250 sugarbeet growers. On October 1, 2004, the Monitor Sugarbeet Growers and Monitor Sugar's Bay City factory joined our Cooperative. Beginning with the 2004 crop, our single, grower-owned cooperative processed all sugar produced in the State of Michigan. Today, we have four operating factories (Bay City, Caro, Croswell, and Sebewaing) and three warehouse terminals located in Michigan and Ohio, employing 450 year-round employees and 1,200 seasonal. We generate over $300 million in direct economic activity annually in the local communities in which we operate. Michigan Sugar Company is the fourth largest beet sugar processor in the United States, annually producing nearly one billion pounds of sugar under the Pioneer and Big Chief brand names - "Locally Grown.