Press Releases

Tate & Lyle PLC announces the disposal of its 5% interest in Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation Limited. The book value of the investment was £3m at 30 September 2001. The shares have been bought by Ingwenyama in trust for the Swazi nation acting through Tibiyo TakaNgwane.The disposal is another...

Tate & Lyle PLC (“Tate & Lyle”) announces that it has today signed and completed the sale of Western Sugar Company (“Western”) to the Rocky Mountain Sugar Growers Co-operative ("RMSGC"). The effective date for the transaction is 31 March 2002.The consideration is US$85 million (£58 million), subject...

Tate & Lyle, the global renewable ingredients company, today announced the formation of a joint-venture with an Israeli partner to build and operate a sugar plant in Israel. The joint-venture company will supply high quality sugars to a range of users in the Israeli market. This will partially...

Tate & Lyle PLC ('Tate & Lyle') announces the sale of its 15% stake in East Asia Properties Ltd ('EAP') to East Asia Sugar Investment Ltd a subsidiary of the majority shareholder, the Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation Ltd. EAP is a holding company and owns majority stakes in five sugar factories in China...

Tate & Lyle PLC announces that it has decided to pursue a sale of its molasses and storage businesses comprising United Molasses (UK and overseas including UM Feeds Marketing), UM North America (PM Ag and UM Canada) and United Storage. PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance have been appointed to...

Tate & Lyle PLC announces the sale of Tate & Lyle Investments (Africa) Ltd ("TLIA") to a Botswana-registered holding company CBAQ (Pty) Limited ("CBAQ"). TLIA is a holding company that owns the Group's 50.1% interest in ZSR Corporation Ltd ("ZSR"), a sugar refiner and industrial holding company...

Tate & Lyle issues the following routine trading update including comments on sweetener pricing negotiations and a statement on Western Sugar. Current Financial YearUnderlying trading in the Group for the 9 months to 31 December 2001 has continued to be in line with plan and significantly ahead of...

Tate & Lyle PLC ("Tate & Lyle") announces the sale of East African Storage Company Limited ("EAS") of Kenya and Tanzania Liquids Storage Company Limited ("TLS") of Tanzania. The two storage businesses have been acquired by African Bulk Commodities Limited and Africa Tank Terminals Ltd respectively...

Tate & Lyle has launched Light Cane Sugar, the first light sugar that looks and tastes like Tate & Lyle’s ordinary Cane Sugar, yet contains 33 per cent fewer calories. New Tate & Lyle Light Cane sugar makes it easy for people who want to reduce their daily intake of calories. With just 11 calories...

4 November 2004: Tate & Lyle PLC announced today that a new £97 million sucralose manufacturing plant is to be built in Singapore. This will be Tate & Lyle’s second sucralose facility and is being constructed in response to strong and sustained international customer demand for SPLENDA® Sucralose...