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Tate & Lyle plc is a British-based multinational agribusiness. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It specialises in manufacturing sugar-based food ingredients, as well as other ingredients, industrial chemicals and animal foods. ==History== The company was formed in 1921 from a merger of two rival sugar refiners, ''Henry Tate & Sons'' and ''Abram Lyle & Sons''.〔(Tate & Lyle: History )〕 Henry Tate established his business in 1869 in Liverpool, later expanding to Silvertown in the East End of London:〔 he used his industrial fortune to found the Tate Gallery in London in 1897, and endowed it with his own collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings.〔''The River Thames from Hampton Court to the Millennium Dome'' (1999) ISBN 1860117015〕 Abram Lyle, a cooper and shipowner, acquired an interest in sugar refinery in 1865 in Greenock, western Scotland and then at Plaistow Wharf, West Silvertown, London.〔 The two companies had large factories nearby each other — Henry Tate in Silvertown and Abram Lyle at Plaistow Wharf — so prompting the merger. Prior to the merger, which occurred after they had died, the two men were bitter business rivals, although they had never met in person. (The Liverpool plant closed in 1981 and the Greenock plant closed during the 1990s, while the Plaistow Wharf and Silvertown plants were sold to American Sugar Refining in 2010).〔(Tate & Lyle sells sugar arm to American Sugar Refining ) BBC News, 1 July 2010〕 In 1949, the Company introduced its "Mr Cube" brand, as part of a marketing campaign to help it fight a proposed nationalization by the Labour government.〔 In 1976 the Company acquired a 33% stake (increased to 63% in 1988) in ''Amylum'', a European starch-based manufacturing business.〔 In 1988, it acquired a 90% stake in A. E. Staley, a US corn processing business and in 1998 it brought ''Haarmann & Reimer'', a citric acid producer; in 2000 it acquired the remaining minorities of Amylum and A. E. Staley.〔 In 2004, it established a joint venture with DuPont to manufacture a renewable 1,3-Propanediol that can be used to make Sorona (a substitute for nylon). This was its first major foray into bio-materials.〔 In 2005, DuPont Tate & Lyle BioProducts was created as a joint venture between DuPont and Tate & Lyle.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DuPont and Tate & Lyle to Open $100 Million Bioproducts Plant )〕 In 2006, it acquired ''Hycail'', a small Dutch business, giving the Company intellectual property and a pilot plant to manufacture Polylactic acid (PLA), another bio-plastic.〔(Tate & Lyle: Industrial ingredients )〕 Tate &Lyle has discontinued their PLA activities and closed the Hycail plant in 2008. In October 2007, five European starch and alcohol plants, previously part of the European starch division knowns as Amylum group, were sold to Syral, a subsidiary of French sugar company Tereos. Syral has since closed the Greenwich plant, which is currently being demolished. In February 2008, it was announced that Tate & Lyle granulated white cane sugar would be accredited as a Fairtrade product, with all the company's other retail products to follow in 2009. In April 2009, the United States International Trade Commission affirmed a ruling that Chinese manufacturers can make copycat versions of its Splenda product. Javed Ahmed became CEO on 1 October 2009, replacing Iain Ferguson.〔"Tate & Lyle (LSE: TATE LN): New CEO Takes Helm," Jefferies International Ltd., 2 October 2009〕 In July 2010 the company announced the sale of its sugar refining business, including rights to use the Tate & Lyle brand name and Lyle's Golden Syrup, to American Sugar Refining for £211 million.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tate & Lyle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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