Company Profile - Domino Sugar

Overview

Over the years, the Domino Sugar package was used as a means to reach consumers on a more personal level. The company began printing recipes and premium offers on its bags and cartons. The distribution of seasonal cookbooks and timely recipe leaflets developed by professional home economists is still a popular practice today.

Culture

In 1906, the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company began refining pure cane sugar in the small town of Crockett, California, near San Francisco. As cargo ships offloaded raw cane sugar from the Hawaiian Islands, the refinery employed 490 people and produced 67,000 tons of refined cane sugar. Today C&H produces cane sugar and molasses for a vast U.S. market. The Crockett refinery processes over 700 thousand tons of cane sugar annually --more than 70 types, grades and package sizes, including packaged consumer sugars as well as packaged, liquid and bulk granulated industrial-use cane sugars.

Benefits

C&H Sugar Company, Inc. Consumer Affairs 830 Loring Avenue Crockett, CA 94525

Domino Sugar Products

Domino® Granulated Sugar is highly refined white sugar. The 5lb. bag of Domino® Pure Granulated Sugar remains the brand's flagship product. Over the years, the Domino® Granulated Sugar product line has expanded to include a variety of forms and packages such as: Domino® Dots® Sugar Cubes, Hostess Crystal Tablets, Packets, and Superfine, which is a more finely granulated sugar that dissolves almost instantly in beverages and cooking.

Domino® Confectioners Sugar, or powdered sugar, is granulated white sugar that has been crushed into a fine powder and is ideal for icings or as a sprinkle-on dessert topping. Two different grain sizes are available, Domino® 4X and 10X Confectioners Sugars.

Domino® Brown Sugar is white sugar combined with molasses, which gives it an amber color, soft texture and distinctive flavor. Domino® Golden Light Brown and Old Fashioned Dark Brown are the two most common styles of brown sugar, which mainly vary in strength of flavor. Domino® Brownulated® Light Brown Sugar, another innovative product, is a brown sugar that pours freely out of the carton and never lumps, cakes or hardens.

C&H Products

Sugar Types and Tasks
Pure Cane Sugars are the most powerful taste tools in your pantry. And C&H offers you seven different types to meet your many baking needs: White Granulated, Baker’s Sugar, Golden Brown, Dark Brown, Powdered, Superfine and Washed Raw.

Each type of C&H Sugar has different properties. Each enhances the sweetness of your recipes in different ways. And to ensure that you get the best possible results, we guarantee that every bag of C&H sugar contains only 100% pure cane sugar.

Lots of us have been brought up thinking that all sugars are…well…pretty much the same, and that the kind of sugar we use won’t make much difference. Even today, most people don’t know that some grocery stores carry two different kinds of sugar: cane sugar and beet sugar. Pure Cane Sugar, the kind C&H uses exclusively, is refined from sugarcane plants. The first cultivated sugar crop, sugarcane is grown above ground and nurtured in fresh tropical breezes under warm sunshine. Beet sugar, found in some store brands and in other makers that often don’t specify the source, is extracted from beets grown underground as a root crop.

C&H News

(Crockett, Calif.) January 1, 2007 — C&H Pure Cane Brown Sugar received the ChefsBest™ Award for Best Taste for its Brown Sugar from the independent, professional chefs at American Culinary ChefsBest.1 C&H Brown Sugar was evaluated blind in a competitive judging among leading brands and was rated highest in overall quality.

By using experts to judge the best, the ChefsBest Award is an unbiased, credible way for consumers to make an informed buying decision at the grocery store. By choosing products such as C&H Brown Sugar, consumers are assured they are getting the Best Tasting product for their dollar.

The ChefsBest judging process follows a strict, proprietary protocol. All of the ChefsBest judgings are done blind so the chef panelists do not know which brands are being evaluated. To further ensure objectivity, the products are served in random order with only a three-digit code identifying product samples. The products are then judged on many different aspects of taste. To receive the ChefsBest Award for Best Taste, a brand must have a statistically significant quality difference from its competitors. In the event there is no difference among products, no winner is declared.

In addition to being professionally trained in the culinary arts, all of the ChefsBest chef panelists are certified as Master Tasters™. They have been rigorously trained and screened for palate acuity. This screening ensures the chefs' taste buds are sophisticated enough to detect various flavor nuances. In fact, to protect these "prized" taste buds, chefs avoid caffeine, cannot smoke, drink or eat spicy food several hours before judging to prevent any residual flavors from tainting the products being judged.

To uphold the high integrity standards for the ChefsBest Award for Best Taste, the judging process is protected from outside influence. Products are purchased nationwide by ChefsBest, just as a consumer would. ChefsBest determines categories independently of manufacturers. All testing is done outside of manufacturers and they do not pay to be judged. Only one brand within the category can win the ChefsBest Award. There are no second or third place awards so consumers can be sure they are getting the Best product.

"Food is the third largest expenditure of the American household. Yet with thousands of products in the average grocery store, it can be hard to determine which is the best product for your dollar," said Heidi Wissmiller, Chief Operating Officer, American Culinary ChefsBest. "The ChefsBest Award provides unbiased, credible information about the best products in America."

"The ChefsBest Award reinforces our promise to provide high quality, great-tasting products. Winning the ChefsBest Award emphasizes to C&H Pure Cane Brown Sugar consumers that they have made the best buying decision for their family," said Connie Hunter, Consumer Relations Specialist, C&H Sugar Company.

ChefsBest Award Winning products are easily identified by the three chef heads profile on the double gold medallion. To find out more about ChefsBest and other award-winning products