In 2002 sugar company Béghin-Say was taken over by Union SDA and Union des Planteurs de Betteraves à Sucre (Union BS)[REF] and merged to Tereos S.A. in January, 2003.
In 2007 the starch sugar and bioethanol part (5 plants) of the European starch division of Tate & Lyle known as Amylum group, was bought by starch subsidiary Syral of Tereos.