AB Sugar: an advanced and

sustainable manufacturer
July 2012
AB Sugar is a substantial and core business within Associated British Foods, a
diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with sales of 11.1 bn,
and 102,000 employees in 46 countries
Operations in UK, Iberia, Africa, and China with a capacity of ~ 5.5mtpa; current
production c. 4.1 4.4 mtpa
Largest purchaser of agricultural products for processing (c. 34m tonnes)
Sole UK producer of beet sugar; c. 13 mt of beet processed in Europe and China
19mt of cane processed by the Group, 6.2 mt of which is produced on Illovos
estates in Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Swaziland
World-class agricultural productivity - Illovo for cane and British Sugar for beet
Lowest cost sugar processor in regions; exceptionally high asset utilisation in the
UK
Co-products not by-products, increasingly value-added; animal feed,
co-generation, betaine, tomatoes, furfural and cropguard
UKs first bioethanol refinery operational at Wissington; largest wheat to ethanol
plant in the UK due for completion 2012
Leading retail brands; Silver Spoon, Billingtons (ABF Grocery), Azucarera, Illovo

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Supplying our customers with an increasing range of sugars
and non sugar products
We have developed highly integrated manufacturing processes to
produce a wide variety of co-products, including animal feed products,
alcohol, bioethanol, electricity, tomatoes, high quality top soil, fertilisers
and soil conditioning products
Our comprehensive range of granulated and specialty sugars deliver
excellent taste, flavour and functionality and are a key ingredient in the
leading brands of many international and regional food, drink and
pharmaceutical manufacturers
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We have a clear vision
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Quality, service and product excellence
An advanced and sustainable manufacturer recognised for providing added
value to all of our customers and consumers, with a primary emphasis on
quality, service and technical excellence

Operational effectiveness
Be the lowest cost sugar processor in our selected regions and work with our
growers to ensure lowest supply chain cost

Sugar and non-sugar growth
Sugar is at the heart of our business, but our objective is to make the most of
every root of beet and stick of cane

Organisational culture
An organisation focused on ambition, achievement, high performance and
collaboration

Based on
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AB Sugar timeline
1989
British Sugar first UK food company to invest in Eastern Europe
1991
Associated British Foods plc acquires British Sugar
1995
First foreign company to invest in China through BoQing cane sugar joint venture
1997
BoHua cane sugar joint venture in southern China
2001
BoXuan cane sugar joint venture in southern China
2006
Acquisition of 51% of Illovo Sugar Ltd
2007
BoTian beet sugar company established in northern China
2008
Jinchenjiang greenfield factory built in southern China
2008
BoCheng beet sugar joint venture in northern China
2009
Acquisition of Azucarera
2009
Disposal of BSO Poland
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AB Sugar: Operating structure
British Sugar

Illovo Sugar
(51%)
Other
businesses
China South
Zambia
Mozambique
Malawi
Swaziland
Tanzania
South Africa
Czarnikow (42.5%)
Germains
UK
Ireland
AB Sugar China AB Azucarera

Portugal
Spain
China North
Vivergo Fuels (47%)
Mitra Sugar
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UK 5 plants
(incl. Vivergo)
Iberia 6 plants
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Illovo
14 plants
China (N) 7 plants
China (S) 5 plants
We have a diverse geographic footprint
Europe: UK & Ireland
UK
A leading UK competitor supplying all the major blue-chip customers
Comprehensive portfolio of products
Lowest cost sugar processor in the EU
1.3 million tonnes of sugar (1.056 mt quota)
Four factories processing beet
c. 4,000 growers
Sole processor of UK sugar beet crop
Bioethanol refinery at Wissington sugar factory
Vivergo joint venture with BP and DuPont to
build a Bioethanol refinery in Hull (2012)
Ireland
Market entry November 2006
Now leading competitor

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Europe: Iberia
Azucarera is the leading sugar operator in Iberia,
supplying major sugar users in Spain and Portugal
In the north 3 sugar beet factories, 1 liquid sugar
plant and 1 world class logistics and packaging
plant, with a capacity of 200 Kt/year
In the south, 1 production centre, comprising a
raw cane sugar refinery, sugar beet plant, logistics
centre and 15MW combined cycle power plant
exporting power to Spains national grid
Toro laboratory awarded ISO 17025 certificate; only
one in Spain accredited for sugar analysis. Pilot plants
for optimizing sugar beet and sugar cane processes
378 Kt Beet Sugar Quota + c. 400 Kt raw sugar
refining capacity
6,500 growers
Close cooperation between industry and growers
Joint venture with DAI to commercialise sugar in
Spain and Portugal
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China: Cane in the south; beet in the north
Market characteristics
Dynamically growing market (7%-9% pa) consumption est. 14mt (2010)
Cane
First joint venture 1995
5 cane mills with c. 500,000 cane sugar
production
New greenfield factory at Jinchenjiang
commenced operations in December 2009
Beet
BoTian company established in Aug 2007; 6 beet
sugar factories
Further factory JV: BoCheng
Around 300,000 tonnes of beet sugar
Major expansion platform for AB Sugar

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Africa: Illovo Sugar
Africas largest sugar producer
c. 1.5 million tonnes in 2010 / 11
Experienced management team
Established positions in low-cost cane sugar producing
countries
Increasing sugar exports into Europe
14 sugar and downstream plants operating in six
countries:
South Africa, plus 30% share in managed operation
LDC countries: Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique
ACP countries: Swaziland
Extensive high-productivity sugar cane estates (world-
class)
6.2 million tonnes in 2010/11
Installed electricity generating capacity, fuelled by
renewable resources, provides around 89% of groups
energy requirements
ABF has 51.5% equity
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Our sustainability priorities
Energy &
carbon
management
Supply chain
labour
standards
Water
Agricultural
productivity
Economic
development
Health and
nutrition
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leverage our advanced manufacturing capabilitiesin beet

Wissington our integrated biorefinery
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leverage our advanced manufacturing capabilitiesin cane
Illovo cane sugar sustainability model
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The changing world of sugar beet and sugar cane provides
further opportunities
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Summary: AB Sugar the worlds leading sugar business
AB Sugar is an advanced and sustainable manufacturer, consolidated around major growth of the
last 7 years
Market and customer focused in all our regions; providing an ever increasing range of both sugar
and non-sugar products
Leader in the application of agricultural and technological solutions with a well-established
programme of continuous improvement, innovation and technical development operating across
each of our regions
AB Sugar not only has the capacity to leverage continued growth opportunities in existing core
markets, it has the capability to secure new adjoining markets
Expertise is leveraged across the Group, enabling businesses to transfer and apply knowledge to
ensure they remain among the worlds most efficient
Organisational strength-in-depth remains key to our future success and to ensuring we remain
both world scale and world class
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