Cooperative will produce up to 80 million more pounds of sugar annually from molasses MONITOR TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN – Michigan Sugar Company today announced plans to invest more than $65 million to construct a desugarization facility at its factory located at 2600 S. Euclid Ave. in Bay County’s Monitor Township (commonly [...]
Kenna Karst of Frankenmuth, Raven Wieland of Pinconning crowned Queen’s Court Attendants BAY CITY, MICHIGAN – Ally Kemp of Unionville was crowned the 2021 Michigan Sugar Queen during a ceremony held Friday, June 18, at Michigan Sugar Company’s headquarters at Uptown Bay City. Kemp, 19, is a graduate of Unionville-Sebewaing [...]
Michigan Sugar Company has launched a redesigned brand website at www.pioneersugar.com. The site includes information about our pure, all-natural white granulated, Golden Light Brown and Dark Brown, and Confectioners Powdered Pioneer Sugar, as well as profiles about our grower-owners, our farm-to-table story, and a helpful directory of retail locations where [...]
Artist’s work is first step in upgrades to Aunt Sugar’s Farm & Uncle Pickle’s Barn gallery SAGINAW, MICHIGAN – A new mural that helps tell the story of agriculture in Michigan and the Great Lakes Bay Region is now a permanent part of the Mid-Michigan Children’s Museum. The mural, painted [...]
Caro native says he has no plans to retire anytime soon By Rob Clark, Director of Communications and Community Relations CARO, MICHIGAN – “Extended family.” That’s what Jim Kurish calls his co-workers at Michigan Sugar Company’s sugarbeet processing factory in Caro. And as he celebrates his 50th year of employment [...]
By Rob Clark, Director of Communications and Community Relations When Jim Martin was a kid, he loved to tear stuff apart to see how it worked before putting it back together. He carried that same level of curiosity into his professional career, working first as an engineer for General Motors [...]
Brinkman family delivered first load of sugarbeets to Caro factory in 1899 By Rob Clark, Director of Communications and Community Relations Michigan Sugar Company CARO, MICHIGAN – Outside Michigan Sugar Company’s agriculture office in the small community of Caro, Michigan – just a stone’s throw from the oldest sugarbeet processing [...]
Local cooperative sliced 4.1 million tons of beets, produced more than 1 billion pounds of sugar BAY CITY, MICHIGAN – Michigan Sugar Company this month wrapped up its 2019-2020 sugarbeet slicing campaign at its factories in Bay City, Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing. This year’s campaign started in early September and [...]
More than 2,600 gift cards handed out to thank workers, boost local economies BAY CITY – Michigan Sugar Company this week distributed more than 2,600 restaurant gift cards to its employees as a way to say “thank-you” and provide a much-needed boost to local businesses. Each of the company’s approximately [...]
First episode features interview with former company President Ernest Flegenheimer BAY CITY – In an effort to enhance communications with its grower-owners and employees and to expand its storytelling platform with the public, Michigan Sugar Company this week launched its first podcast. Titled “Grounded,” the podcast is hosted by Jim [...]
