Business
Sugar subsidies are costly. As it did with peanuts and tobacco, Congress should consider quota buyouts.
April 30, 2007
Re “Too sweet a deal,” editorial, April 30 U.S. food conglomerates pay 35% less for sugar today than in 1980, yet the price of candies and cakes have skyrocketed by more than 50% over that time.
May 6, 2007
This time last year, congressional Republicans were celebrating the coup of having passed a major tax cut over the objections of the Democratic minority.
Dec. 27, 2018
British sugar refiner Tate & Lyle PLC announced Friday a $1.33-billion bid for Staley Continental Inc., but the big Midwestern food company and one of the nation’s leading corn processors is expected to resist.
April 9, 1988
Price supports and import quotas that insulate U.S. growers from global market realities hurt consumers.
Feb. 18, 2007
In the nick of time, CSX Corp. on Monday offered $28 a share for the stock of Sea-Land Corp., the largest U.S. container ship company, and thus may have saved it from a takeover by financier Harold Simmons.
April 22, 1986
The Irvine-based company, which has lost nearly $94 million in the last nine months, said that two unidentified “diversified U.S. corporations” bought its Houston Engineering Center in Sugar Land, Tex.
July 2, 1985
Movies
Moviegoers would be hard-pressed to find a film more laden with corporate logos than “Fed Up” — and that’s one of the strengths of this galvanizing documentary: It pulls no punches in its informed outrage against the food industry, zeroing in on the rampant use of sugar and its many multisyllabic variations.
May 8, 2014
Aerospace: The defense contractor promotes former Litton exec Ronald D. Sugar.
Sept. 21, 2001
New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co. said it reorganized its investment banking unit to help build its roster of corporate clients and speed decision-making.
July 18, 1997