Michigan Sugar Company

Bay City, Michigan-based Michigan Sugar Company has sugar beet processing facilities in Bay City, Caro, Croswell and Sebewaing, Michigan. Nearly 900 grower-owners plant and harvest up to 160,000 acres of sugar beets each year in 20 Michigan counties. They also pull in sugar beets from Ontario, Canada. Those beets are sliced at factories and turned into about 1.3 billion pounds of sugar annually. The company’s sugar ends up sold to industrial, commercial and retail customers under the Pioneer and Big Chief brands. The company also packages sugar for more than 20 private labels, including for Walmart, Meijer and Kroger.