Part 1 Henry Tate and Sons, Abram Lyle and Sons, British sugar refiners, 1859-1920: the world sugar economy and the British market; British sugar policy; sugar refining in Great Britain in the 19th century; Henry Tate and Sons, grocers and refiners; Abram Lyle and Sons, shipowners and sugar refiners; the First World War. Part 2 Tate and Lyle, 1921-1950 - a British sugar firm: Tate and Lyle; economic trends in the international sugar scene 1918-1939; Great Britain's sugar problems 1919-1939 - British sugar policy; sugar refining in Great Britain during the inter-war period; Tate and Lyle during the inter-war period; the Second World war; "Tate not State" or the attempt to nationalize Tate and Lyle. Part 3 Tate and Lyle 1938-1965 - an imperial concern: the world sugar economy 1945-1965; British sugar policy before Great Britain's entry into the Common Market; sugar refining in Great Britain and the position of Tate and Lyle; the arrival of Tate and Lyle in the West Indies; WISCO in Jamaica; Caroni in Trinidad; Belize Sugar Industries Ltd.; the winds of discontent in the West Indies; African temptations - Tate and Lyle's first steps in Africa; sugar refining in Canada; shipping and engineering - the development of services activities; the Tate and Lyle group in 1965. Tate and Lyle 1965-1980 - a multinational firm: the purchase of United Molasses; the international sugar economy 1965-1980; Great Britain's entry into the Common Market and its consequences for sugar; trends in British sugar refining, 1965-1980; the end of sugar colonialism; the Say affair; a brief incursion into South Africa 1969-1877; North American strategies; Tate and Lyle's world of commodity trading; glucose and high-fructose corn syrup; agri-business and sucro chemistry - Tate and Lyle's new lifeblood; the Tate and Lyle group from 1965-1980.
