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British Sugar PLC
Manufacture of sugar
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Previous officers 38
- Yagnesh Patel 2024-2025 View profile
- Charles Noble 2022-2023 View profile
- Jonathan Paul Willis 2020-2024 View profile
- Alexander Kitson Johnson 2018-2019 View profile
- Janet Catherine Ryan 2017-2020 View profile
- Paul Robert Kenward 2016-2023 View profile
- Jonathan Cowper 2015-2017 View profile
- Deborah Anna Jenssen 2014-2018 View profile
- Matthew James Lee 2014-2017 View profile
- Dr Quintin Harvey Heath 2014-2023 View profile
- Malcolm Burns 2014-2014 View profile
- Graham Michael Rhodes 2013-2014 View profile
- Paul Frampton 2010-2016 View profile
- Timothy John Dornan 2010-2012 View profile
- Stephen Derek Moon 2010-2014 View profile
- Gino Daniel Maurice De Jaegher 2009-2012 View profile
- Richard Rankin 2006-2009 View profile
- Michele Rowlands 2006-2014 View profile
- Dr Mark Ian Carr 2004-2022 View profile
- David Robin Langlands 2003-2010 View profile
- Marie-Louise Clayton 2001-2002 View profile
- Karl Lewis Carter 2001-2011 View profile
- Terence Strain 1999-2001 View profile
- Kevin Cyril Field 1995-2004 View profile
- David Jonathan Douglas Yiend 1992-1999 View profile
- William Clive Francis 1991-1999 View profile
- Christopher Arthur Yates 1991-1998 View profile
- Harvey John Davenport 1991-2009 View profile
- Peter John Jackson 1987-2001 View profile
- John Walter Sutcliffe 2010 View profile
- Dr Malcolm Frederick Branch 1995 View profile
- Harold William Bailey 2002 View profile
- Garfield Howard Weston 2000 View profile
- Simon Joseph Smith 2006-2006 View profile
- Lyn Richardson 2001-2001 View profile
- Jessica Sophie Foster 2000-2001 View profile
- William Bernard Wright 1991-2000 View profile
- Malcolm Raymond Gore 1999 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Manufacture of sugar
- Incorporated
- 12/06/1936
- Registered office
- London
Ownership
Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- ABF Investments PLC
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06
Group
- British Sugar PLC
is controlled by ABF Investments PLC
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register - ABF Investments PLC
is controlled by Associated British Foods PLC
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Associated British Foods PLC.
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- The Billington Food Group Limited
- KO2 Limited
- Patak's Foods 2008 Limited
- Anglia Grain Services Limited
- ABF HK Finance Limited
- AB Sugar China Holdings Limited
- Navara OAT Milling Limited
- AB Mauri Europe Limited
- Nutrition Trading Limited
- Weston Foods Limited
- A.B.F. Properties Limited
- National Milk Records Limited
- Fishers Seeds & Grain Limited
- C. Czarnikow Sugar Futures Limited
- The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited
- A.B.F.Holdings Limited
- Patak Food Limited
- 09970525
- Intracrop Limited
- Primark US Holdings Limited
- ABF Ingredients Limited
- ABF ZMW Finance Limited
- ABF Investments (NO.2) Limited
- Vivergo Fuels Limited
- C. Czarnikow Sugar Limited
- AB World Foods Limited
- ABF Investments PLC
- Speedibake Limited
- Warner Properties (AGS) Limited
- National Livestock Records Limited
- Allied Grain (Scotland) Limited
- Premier Nutrition Products Limited
- ABF Food Tech Investments Limited
- Boston Seeds Limited
- Primary Nutrition Limited
- Allied Grain (South) Limited
- Patak's Frozen Foods Limited
- 06746429
- Fishers Feeds Limited
- Worldwing Investments Limited
- AB Sugar China North Limited
- Lothian Crop Specialists Limited
Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.
Grants received
15 grants · £916,277 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £560,200 (2 grants)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £285,722 (11 grants)
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £69,355
- Department for Education · £1,000
Most recent
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
3 directors on the board
- Kim Valery Usher Director · appointed 2024
- Keith Richard Packer Director · appointed 2023
- Joanna Kate Roberts Director · appointed 2025
First-time vs portfolio directors
Portfolio (3)
- Kim Valery Usher Director · appointed 2024
- Keith Richard Packer Director · appointed 2023
- Joanna Kate Roberts Director · appointed 2025
Left in the last 12 months
- Yagnesh Patel Director · appointed 2024 · resigned 2025
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 00315158
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Public Limited Company
- Accounts next due
- 28/02/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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