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| 2007 |
UK's first bioethanol plant opens at Wissington | |
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| 2006 |
EU agriculture ministers formally adopt radical reform of the EU sugar sector | |
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| 1991 |
Associated British Foods bought British Sugar, and is still the parent company today. | |
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| 1982 |
British Sugar Corporation became a Public Limited Company, trading as British Sugar. | |
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| 1981 |
The government sold its 36% stake in the British Sugar Corporation. | |
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| 1972 |
Launch of the Silver Spoon retail brand for granulated, cubed, caster and icing sugar. | |
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| 1956 |
The Sugar Act replaced the 1936 Act and set up the Sugar Board, which guaranteed the price for growers, both in the UK and Commonwealth. | |
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| 1936 |
The British Sugar Corporation was created by the Sugar Industry (Reorganisation) Act to manage the entire UK sugar beet crop. | |
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| 1912 |
The first sugar factory was built at Cantley in Norfolk. | |
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| 1909 |
The National Sugar Beet Association was founded to establish the manufacture of sugar from beet as a British industry. | |