Sugar · operation or company
Florida Crystals Corporation
the Fanjul family sugar group
- Founded
- 1960
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Place
- West Palm Beach and the Glades communities
- District
- The Glades
- Status as of 12 September 2026
- Operating; farms about 190,000 acres in Palm Beach County, runs the Okeelanta and Osceola mills, a refinery, Florida's only rice mill and a biomass plant, and co owns ASR Group.
- Connections
- 11 edges, 11 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.115 (rank 14 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.032 (rank 20) · outside share 0.09
- Confidence
- High · sources: [FCJ] [FCM] [ENCFC] [WFAN] [FCRM] [MOD] (register)
The Fanjul family founds the business in Pahokee in 1960 and acquires Gulf and Western's Florida operations in 1984 to 1985, adding about 90,000 acres through Okeelanta [FCJ][ENCFC][JMFS]. With the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative it buys the Yonkers refinery in 1998, beginning American Sugar Refining, and its two mills grind more than 6.5 million tons of cane a year, as the company reports [ENCFC][FCM]. Alfonso Fanjul Jr and Jose Pepe Fanjul lead the group after their father's death in 1980 [WFAN][ENCFC].
Holdings and units: Osceola Farms, Okeelanta Corporation, New Hope Sugar Company, the rice mill, New Hope Power
Connections
Location and lineage
- holdsOsceola Farmsthe original farming and milling unit1960 to present
- holdsJose Pepe Fanjulco leader of the 1984 Gulf and Western acquisitionlate 1960s to present
- holdsAlfonso Fanjul Jrchief executive of the family group1980 to present
- holdsNew Hope Poweroperated as Florida Crystals2005 to present
- holdsFlorida Crystals rice millthe company's rice milling arm supports the cane rotationto present
- founded byAlfonso Fanjul Srthe family enterprise that grows into Florida Crystals1960
- foundedASR Groupcreates American Sugar Refining beginning with the Yonkers refinery1998 to present
- received land or role fromAtlantic Sugar Associationthe cane of its 17 growers moves to the Okeelanta and Osceola mills after the closure2005
- grew intoOkeelanta Corporationthe Gulf and Western acquisition adds about 90,000 acres and the South Bay mill complex1984 to present
Support
- supported byEverglades Agricultural Areathe primary growing region of the company1960 to present
Collaboration
- collaborationTalisman Sugar CorporationEAA growers including the Fanjul companies farm portions of the Talisman land under leaseback, as reported1999 onward