BRITAIN’S SUGAR.

Grey River Argus, 29 October 1926, Page 6

BRITAIN’S SUGAR.

CANE FACTORIES CLOSING. LONDON, Oct. 27. As the result of a threatened system of price control, Britain’s largest cane sugar refinery, that of Tate and Lyle, of Plaistow Wharf, where 2,600 hands are employed, is closing down, consequent on the dumping of one hundred thousand tons of foreign sugar, plus 150 thousand tons of subsidised homegrown sugar beet. Another of Tate and Lyle’s factories at Silvertown, where 2,400 are employed, is only working half time, and may have to be closed. The same fate may wait the firm’s third factory at Liverpool, employing 2000.