Holly Sugar® traces its roots back to 1905 in Holly, Colorado. Holly’s founder, Kenneth Schley, liked the name Holly because holly berries were traditional symbols of friendship and good cheer. Holly Sugar® became extremely popular among customers along the West Coast during the 1980’s.
In 1989 Imperial Sugar merged with the Holly Sugar Corporation, a company formed from eight beet-sugar processing plants, to form the Imperial Holly Corporation, a processor of both cane and beet sugar. In 2005 Imperial Sugar sold its interests in the Holly Sugar Corporation to the Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative, but still retained the ownership rights to the brand Holly Sugar®.
Pure Cane Sugar: Sustainable and Non-GMO
Holly Sugar is made from pure sugar cane, a tropical grass that grows abundantly in warm, moist and tropical climates. Sugar cane is harvested by chopping off the stems or canes while leaving the roots so that the plant can grow again, making it a highly stainable crop. And sugar cane harvesting leaves nothing to waste; using every part of the plant, even the dried pulp (bagasse) which can be burned in boilers at the refinery to produce bioelectricity.