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Südzucker AG produces and sells sugar products in Germany and internationally. The company operates through five segments: Sugar, Special Products, CropEnergies, Starch, and Fruit. The Sugar segment produces and sells sugar, sugar specialty products, glucose syrup, and animal feed to food industry, retailers, and agriculture markets, as well as offers by-products of sugar. The Special Products segment produces functional ingredients, including dietary fibers, sugar substitutes, sugar, and vegetable texturates for food, animal feed, non-food, and pharmaceutical industries. This segment also offers frozen and chilled pizzas, frozen pasta, snacks, dressings, sauces, baguettes, breadsnacks, portion packed articles, and non-food products to hotels, caterers, food retailers, and restaurants. The CropEnergies segment produces fuel-grade ethanol, neutral alcohol, protein-based food and animal feed, and liquid CO2 to oil companies and traders, food and animal feed producers, beverage, cosmetics, and industrial and pharmaceutical companies. The Starch segment offers starches, saccharification products, ethanol, and byproducts, which include animal feed and fertilizers to food, paper, textiles, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, petroleum, and animal feed industries. The Fruit segment produces fruit preparations for the dairy, ice cream, baked goods, and food service industries; and fruit juice concentrates, not-from- concentrate juices, fruit wines, natural aromas, and beverage bases for beverage industry. The company was founded in 1837 and is headquartered in Mannheim, Germany. Südzucker AG is a subsidiary of Süddeutsche Zuckerrübenverwertungs-Genossenschaft eG.