Logistics and Supply Chain Management of British Sugar

British Sugar
Logistics and Supply Chain Management

British Sugar
 Company inaugurated in 1936 under supervision of British parliament
 Subsidiary of “Associated British Foods”
 Sole British based sugar beet producer
 Processes more than eight million tonnes of sugar beet producing 1.4
million tonnes of sugar every year
 British Sugar grows the sugar beet in East Anglia and East Midlands
and they are sown at the spring
 Grows the sugar beet in East Anglia and East Midlands and they are
sown at the spring

Challenges faced by British
Sugar
 Vagaries arising from future trade agreement by Britain as a result of
departure of the UK from the EU
 WTO export constraints are no longer seen to be applicable for the
reforms applicable to the European producers
 Rising sugar prices due to increased tariff rates
 Third party vendors not agreeing to renew the contract for supplying
sugar in bulk quantity
 Overall reduction in the number of factories over the years

Challenges faced by British
Sugar
 Factories such as “Ely, Felsted, Nottingham and Selby” got closed
down due to reducing the overall quota for sugar
 The site at Allscott got also closed on near Telford, Shropshire due to
lack of scale to run economically
 Out of 18 factories run by British Sugar Corporation, only four were
able to still process beet
 Sutton Tanker not renewing the contract for bulk sugar products
 The initiation of Brexit will allow Britain to forge its own bilateral trade
agreement which will allow it to open up its own food market