Tate & Lyle gives up sugar

Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition in 1911 took Lyle's Golden Syrup down south, but this Adelie penguin doesn't look too keen on it, preferring to guard its eggs Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images Photograph: Popperfoto/guardian.co.uk Scott's expedition team members pack boxes of Tate sugar – the firm was at the time a fierce rival of Lyle – for sledging rations in 1912 Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images Photograph: Popperfoto/guardian.co.uk 1949: a Tate & Lyle bag of sugar carries an anti-nationalisation slogan. 'If they juggle with sugar they juggle with your shopping basket'. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photograph: Hulton Archive/guardian.co.uk 1957: A little girl grins with delight at the prospect of Tate & Lyle's Golden Syrup on sliced bread. And why not Photograph: Jamie Hodgson/Getty Images Photograph: Jamie Hodgson/guardian.co.uk 1951: Tate & Lyle's stand at the Daily Mail ideal home exhibition, showing how sugar was packed Photograph: Daily Mail/Rex Features Photograph: Daily Mail/guardian.co.uk 1974: Hundreds of bags of sugar at a Tate & Lyle warehouse Photograph: D Morrison/Express/Getty Images Photograph: D Morrison/Express/guardian.co.uk 1974: Tate & Lyle lorries on the road outside the factory in Silvertown, London Photograph: Bill Orchard/Evening Standard/Rex Features Photograph: Bill Orchard/Evening Standard/guardian.co.uk 2006: The famous design that adorns tins of Lyle's Golden Syrup has been officially recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest brand Photograph: foodfolio/Alamy Photograph: foodfolio/guardian.co.uk 2008: Diggers move unrefined cane sugar in the warehouse at the Tate & Lyle refinery in Silvertown, London. Tate & Lyle, once the world's biggest sugar refiner, sold off businesses and closed plants after the European Union cut sugar-production quotas Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/guardian.co.uk 2008: Packs of Tate & Lyle granulated sugar pass along the production line at the refinery in Silvertown, London Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/guardian.co.uk 2008: The Tate & Lyle factory on the River Thames at Silvertown Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA Photograph: Ian Nicholson/guardian.co.uk 2009: The Tate & Lyle logo on its London refinery. American Sugar Refining is buying its sugar businesses, pledging not to cut jobs Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters Photograph: Andrew Winning/guardian.co.uk