The Tate & Lyle Group was formed in 1921 by the merger of two companies: Tate, a sugar refining business started by Sir Henry Tate in 1859, and Lyle, a sugar refining business started by Abram Lyle in 1865.
Through mergers and acquisitions with equally well-established businesses around the globe, and innovative partnerships with new and exciting ventures, Tate & Lyle has become a world-leading ingredients company, with expertise in renewable sources such as corn (maize), wheat and sugar.
Did you know?
- The sugar cube was introduced to the UK by Henry Tate in 1875.
- Henry Tate opened his second sugar refinery on the banks of the river Thames in Silvertown, London in 1878. This is still the site of Tate & Lyle's British sugar refinery.
- Lyle's Golden Syrup has been awarded as the oldest branding (packaging) by Guinness World Record this year and is still made in the factory that Abraham Lyle built in 1883.
- Henry Tate and Abram Lyle probably never met, despite operating refineries less than two miles apart in East London. It was their descendents who formed the famous Tate & Lyle partnership.
- If you stacked up every tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup sold just in the EU each year, the column would be more than 1,500 times the height of the world's tallest building.
- Tate & Lyle is one of the few founder members of the FT-30 index, which was established in 1932, that is still in business today.
- Today, Tate & Lyle is the only cane sugar refiner in the UK, and the largest in Europe.
- We provide jobs for over 300,000 people in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Through access to the EU sugar market, less developed countries can get a much higher price for their sugar - around three times the world market price.
- For more information on our Company, our people and how we work, please visit www.tateandlyle.com.
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