Tate & Lyle
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Tate & Lyle Plc is a British multinational supplier of diverse food and beverage products to food and industrial markets. It was originally a sugar refining business, but from the 1970s, it began to d
Tate & Lyle PLC refinery along the Thames in Silvertown, London
Tate & Lyle head office in Kingsway, London
A Tate & Lyle tank car carrying corn syrup
Abram Lyle
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Abram Lyle was a Scottish food manufacturer and politician, who is noted for founding the sugar refiners Abram Lyle & Sons in 1887, which merged with the company of his rival Henry Tate to become Tate
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…Switzerland and Germany, and thereby introduced cube sugar to the UK. In 1878 the company opened Thames Refinery in Silvertown in East London. In 1865 Abram Lyle, a cooper and shipowner, acquired an interest in Glebe Sugar Refinery in Greenock, Scotland. After the principal partner, John Kerr, died in 1872, Lyle…
Late 19th-century extension to the Glebe Sugar Refinery, Ker Street, Greenock, where Lyle took up the business. The original sugarhouse was on the left, now the site of an Aldi supermarket
Tate & Lyle syrup refinery at Plaistow Wharf, 2009
A tin of Lyle's Golden Syrup, first sold in 1885. Recognised by Guinness World Records as having the world's oldest branding and packaging.