Amalgamated Sugar Company
company
The Amalgamated Sugar Company is an American sugar beet–refining company run on a cooperative basis. It was founded in 1897 in Ogden, Utah, and is now located in Nampa, Idaho. The company markets its sugar under the White Satin brand.
Founding
Ogden Sugar Company
The Ogden Sugar Company was incorporated on December 6, 1897, at the Weber Club in Ogden, Utah. Directors included David Eccles, Thomas Duncombe Dee, George Q. Cannon, and John R. Winder, with Eccles as president and Dee as vice president. One of the first motions was to ask senators Frank J. Cannon and Joseph L. Rawlins and representative William H. King to oppose the Annexation of Hawaii into the United States.
Eccles and Joseph Clark inspected a sugar beet factory in Los Alamitos, California, and contracted with the E. H. Dyer Construction Company of Cleveland, Ohio, to build a sugar beet factory in Ogden.
Ogden Sugar began with a plant built in Ogden, Utah, in 1898. It was based on the success of the Utah Sugar Company's Lehi, Utah, plant, built in 1891 and successful by 1897. The first annual report to Ogden Sugar stockholders was made March 16, 1899, and "was a forerunner of subsequent annual reports made in equally depressing language...
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