British Sugar
British Sugar is one of the two main sugar companies in the UK. The other is Tate and Lyle
British Sugar’s parent company is Associated British Foods plc (ABF). ABC is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with annual sales of £6.0 billion and 75,000 employees in 46 countries.
People
Non-executive director appointed a director on 11 Oct 1999 and Chairman on 5 Dec 2002. He was a senior partner of KPMG and a member of that firm’s board until 1996.
Executive director
George Weston is Chief Executive. He is a graduate of New College Oxford and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. In his former roles as Managing Director of Westmill Foods, Allied Bakeries and George Weston Foods Ltd (Australia) he has been a member of the ABF board since 1999. He took up his current appointment in April 2005.
Executive director appointed Finance Director in May 1999 He was previously the finance director of Bunzl plc and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Non-executive director since 1964. He is chairman and president of George Weston Limited, Canada. He is also chairman of Selfridges & Co. Limited and a non-executive director of Wittington Investments Limited.
Independent non-executive director appointed 21 May 2003. Chairman of Filtrona plc. He was non-executive chairman of Alliance UniChem plc until April 2005, having previously held the positions of chief executive and finance director since joining the group in 1985. He is a chartered accountant and is a non-executive director of Bunzl plc and Anzag AG.
Independent non-executive director appointed a director on 3 November 2004. He has been chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers plc since the demerger from Six Continents PLC in 2003. He joined Bass PLC in 1990 having previously been a partner of Panmure Gordon & Co.
Independent non-executive director appointed 16 Jan 2002. He spent his earlier career with BP plc and latterly as chief operating officer of Centrica plc. He is a former chief executive of British Energy Group plc, a former non-executive director of The Energy Savings Trust and current chairman of GT Solar International Inc.
- Rt. Hon. Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market, OBE
Senior independent non-executive director since 1994 MP from 1974 to 2001, with 15 years in Government and nine in the Cabinet in five different posts, including Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He is a director of Friends Provident plc, a non-executive member of the supervisory board of DAF Trucks N.V., and a Life Peer since 2001.
- Lord Jay of Ewelme GCMG
Independent non-executive director appointed 1 Nov 2006. British Ambassador to France from 1996 to 2001, Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office from 2002 to 2006, and the Prime Minister’s Personal Representative for the G8 Summits at Gleneagles and St Petersburg in 2005 and 2006. His early career included time at the World Bank in Washington and the British High Commission in New Delhi.
Independent non-executive director appointed 1 Nov 2006 He spent his earlier career with Bacardi Group, his last position being president and chief executive officer. He is currently a partner at Lion Capital LLP, a London-based private equity firm. He is a non-executive director of Abbot plc and vice-chairman of William Grant and Sons Limited.
