Guyana Sugar Corporation

The Guyana Sugar Corporation is the largest cultivator and producer of pure cane sugar in Guyana. On 21st May 1976, the Government of Guyana nationalized the sugar industry operated then by Booker Sugar Estates Limited and Jessels Holdings and merged the estates to form the Guyana Sugar Corporation Limited, which continued as Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. after the enactment of the Companies Act 1991. The Corporation is wholly owned by the Government of Guyana.
As per its Memorandum of Association, the scope of the Company includes but is not limited to sugar cane cultivation, raw sugar, and value-added products, as well as other agriculture commodities.
At present, the company’s primary activities are: sugar cane cultivation, production of pure cane sugar under world-renowned brands: Demerara Gold, Enmore Crystals, and molasses for the world’s finest – ‘El Dorado’ rum.