Michigan Sugar Company

Michigan Sugar Company was formed in 1906 when six independent, single factory, sugarbeet companies merged. In 2002, our Company became a cooperative, owned by over 1,000 sugarbeet growers. On October 1, 2004, the Monitor Sugarbeet Growers and Monitor Sugar's Bay City factory joined our Cooperative. Beginning with the 2004 crop, our single, grower-owned cooperative processed all sugar produced in the State of Michigan.

Today, we have four operating factories (Bay City, Caro, Croswell, and Sebewaing) and three warehouse terminals located in Michigan and Ohio, employing 750 year-round employees and 1,000 seasonal. It generates over one-half billion dollars in direct economic activity annually in the local communities in which it operates. Michigan Sugar Company is the third largest beet sugar processor in the United States, annually producing nearly one billion pounds of sugar under the Pioneer and Big Chief brand names - "Locally Grown. Locally Owned."


MICHIGAN SUGAR COMPANY - COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

Our Michigan Sugar Company Facebook page was created to provide a positive environment where we could connect with our customers, community residents, growers, employees, and the public. We are truly a unique company with very committed grower-owners and talented employees. It is our hope that you will learn more about our locally-owned cooperative and the products we offer.

We welcome an exchange of your ideas, thoughts and contributions through interesting conversation. We understand that people will have unique and differing opinions, but we ask that your postings and comments remain thoughtful toward other members in this community, stay on topic, and remain in accordance with Facebook's Terms of Service. We reserve the right to delete disrespectful, profane, threatening, harassing, or otherwise inappropriate comments. Solicitations, postings containing private information, including phone numbers, addresses or other information about individuals, spam, and commercial website links, will be removed. We do reserve the right to remove any post, for any reason. If you have a specific problem with a poster/commenter, please contact us directly at info@

We encourage you to post your comments in the spirit for which this mode of communication is intended, that is to "sweeten" our relationships with each other.