Imperial Sugar is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer based in Sugar Land, Texas, with sugar refinery operations in California, Georgia, and Louisiana. The company was established in 1843 and has undergone ownership changes multiple times. The current name, Imperial Sugar Company, was established after a change in ownership in 1907. The company went through major expansion through acquisitions beginning in 1988, but filed for bankruptcy in 2001, emerging in the same year and embarking on a downsizing strategy. As of May 2012, the company was in the process of being purchased once more and converted from a public to a private company by Louis Dreyfus Group of the Netherlands.
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—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.
“‘Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,
‘You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.’”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)