ASR Group history

Proof of the brand name visibility and popularity of Domino sugar was evident when, in spite of being sued by the United States government for monopolistic practices within the sugar industry in 1907, the company's sugar products continued to sell best with American consumers.

The company's fortunes grew even worse in 1942, when the United States government imposed sugar rationing.

From that time onward, until the end of the war in 1945, the American Sugar Refining Company barely made enough money to keep its administrative office and a few of its refineries in operation.

In 1970, the board of directors at the company decided to change its name from the American Sugar Refining Company to Amstar Sugar Corporation in order to reflect the growing diversification of the firm into activities other than refining.

As an operating subsidiary of Tate & Lyle, the firm renamed itself Domino Sugar Corporation in 1991, and began to reap the rewards of its rich parent company.

Although the Coleman jail opened in 2001 and is named for an African-American sheriff’s deputy who died in the line of duty, Rogers connects it to a longer history of coerced labor, land theft and racial control after slavery.

The suit names a whistle-blower, a federal loan officer, who, in April 2015, “informed Mr.

Provost, who goes by the first name June, and his wife, Angie, who is also a farmer, lost their home to foreclosure in 2018, after defaulting on F.S.A.-guaranteed crop loans.