Danisco´s sugar production meets expectations

The output at Danisco´s sugar factories in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Lithuania totalled around 1,242,000 tonnes of sugar in the campaign just ended.
The production output is somewhat above Danisco´s EU quota of some 1,142,000 tonnes of sugar, thereby meeting the expectations announced in September 2004. The difference against the 2003 production of 1,294,000 tonnes of sugar is due in part to a reduction of the sugar beet acreage by a little over 3%.
Executive Vice President, COO, Mogens Granborg, Danisco A/S, comments on the campaign result: ´With the rainy and not very sunny weather conditions in the summer, the beets did not get off to the best start, but the close-to-perfect weather in the autumn meant good growing conditions and high yields, in some places equalling last year´s record levels. Along with a good and effective campaign at the factories, this contributed to the satisfactory production output.