M.A. Patout & Son

What M.A. Patout & Son does

M.A. Patout & Son, LTD, LLC is a privately held, family-owned raw sugar manufacturer headquartered in Jeanerette, Louisiana, and the oldest continuously operating family-run raw sugar producer in the United States. The business traces to Enterprise Plantation, founded by Simeon and Appoline Patout in 1825, and today operates as an integrated cane-milling enterprise comprising Enterprise Plantation together with three wholly owned subsidiaries: Sterling Sugars, LLC (acquired 1994), Raceland Raw Sugars, LLC (acquired 1996), and Patout Equipment Company, LLC. Across the three mills — all located in Louisiana — the company processes approximately 4,600,000 tons of sugarcane per year into raw sugar and molasses.

The underlying technology is conventional sugar cane processing: milling, juice extraction, clarification, evaporation, crystallization, and centrifugation to produce raw sugar, with molasses recovered as a co-product. Patout Equipment Company provides in-house equipment services that support production continuity across the mill network. The company does not operate a software platform, API, or digital product layer; its public digital footprint is limited to a corporate website and a secure grower login portal for cane suppliers.

The business model is straightforward commodity manufacturing and direct B2B sales. Revenue is generated from two streams — raw sugar sales and molasses sales — sold transaction-by-transaction to industrial food and beverage manufacturers, with pricing tied to commodity sugar markets and not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market is direct industrial sales with a horizontal segmentation approach targeting any manufacturer requiring raw sugar input; there is no consumer brand, no tiered SaaS pricing, and no recurring contract structure disclosed. Operations are domestic-only, and the company maintains continuous capital reinvestment across its three Louisiana facilities as its primary growth mechanism rather than through external fundraising or geographic diversification.

Name

M.A. Patout & Son

Legal name

M. A. Patout & Son, LTD, LLC

Website

https://mapatout.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1825

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

M.A. Patout & Son is a privately held, family-owned raw sugar and molasses manufacturer headquartered in Jeanerette, Louisiana, operating three sugar mills with a combined annual capacity of approximately 4.6 million tons of cane, selling directly to industrial food and beverage manufacturers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Raw Sugar Manufacturing

NAICS

Cane Sugar Manufacturing (311314), Sugar Manufacturing (31131), Sugar and Confectionery Product Manufacturing (3113)

SIC

Sugar & Confectionery Products (2060), Food And Kindred Products (2000)

akta.pro primary industry

Cane Sugar (Raw & Refined) (AFAJAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Fermentation Substrates & Sugars (Molasses, Glucose Syrups, Lactose, Malt Extract) (AFAJAJAI), Sugar & Sweeteners Trading/Wholesale (AFAIAKAB)

Keywords

• Raw sugar manufacturing
• Sugar cane processing
• Molasses production
• Agricultural manufacturing
• Industrial sugar supply

Headquarters

HQ city

Jeanerette

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Raw Sugar Sales: Production and sale of raw sugar from cane processing at three manufacturing facilities. The company operates the oldest complete family-owned and operated raw sugar manufacturing operation in the United States.
2. Molasses Sales: Byproduct sales of molasses generated during the sugar cane processing operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

M.A. Patout & Son manufactures raw sugar and molasses from sugar cane at three mills in Louisiana (Enterprise Plantation, Sterling Sugars, and Raceland Raw Sugars), with a combined processing capacity of 4,600,000 tons of cane annually. The company sells its output directly to industrial food and beverage manufacturers under a B2B industrial supply model.

Product overview

M.A. Patout & Son, LTD, LLC operates as a single unified agricultural manufacturing business producing raw sugar and molasses. The company is organized under one corporate entity comprising the original Enterprise Plantation (founded 1825) and three subsidiary operations: Sterling Sugars, LLC, Raceland Raw Sugars, LLC, and Patout Equipment Company, LLC. Together, the three sugar mills have a combined processing capacity of 4,600,000 tons of cane annually, making it the oldest complete family-owned and operated raw sugar manufacturer in the United States.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Raw Sugar

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Appoline & Simeon Patout FoundationminorOthersPrivate non-profit foundation founded in 1990 by J. Patout Burns, Fr. Rivers Patout and Edwin S. Patout to provide scholarships to children of employees. Funded through contributions from descendants of Appoline and Simeon Patout. M.A. Patout & Son matches all private family contributions.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Imperial Sugar Company: Long-standing U.S. sugar company (founded 1843) operating sugar refining and packaging. Comparable heritage and product positioning, with overlap as a U.S. industrial sugar supplier to food and beverage customers.
• Western Sugar Cooperative: U.S. beet sugar cooperative serving industrial and retail customers. Comparable as a regional sugar manufacturer with similar industrial go-to-market, although feedstock (sugar beet vs. cane) differs.
• Cora Texas Manufacturing Co. Louisiana sugarcane processor operating raw sugar and molasses production. Direct regional peer of M.A. Patout & Son, sharing the Louisiana cane belt and serving similar industrial B2B customers.
• Michigan Sugar Company: U.S. sugar processor (beet sugar) supplying food manufacturers and consumer brands. Comparable as a regional U.S. sugar manufacturer selling into the same industrial customer set, though beet- rather than cane-based.
• AmCane Sugar LLC: Louisiana-based raw cane sugar producer operating in the same regional cane belt as M.A. Patout & Son. Highly comparable as a raw cane sugar mill serving overlapping food and beverage customers in the U.S. Gulf South.
• U.S. Sugar Corporation: One of the largest fully integrated cane sugar producers in the United States, operating in Florida. Directly comparable as a U.S. raw cane sugar grower/manufacturer selling to industrial refiners and food manufacturers, competing in the same domestic raw sugar supply pool.
• Florida Crystals Corporation: Family-owned (Fanjul) raw and refined cane sugar producer based in Florida. Comparable as a vertically integrated sugarcane grower and raw sugar manufacturer with its own refining and packaging, competing with M.A. Patout & Son in the U.S. industrial raw sugar market.

Broad incumbents

• ASR Group (Domino Sugar): The world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar (Domino, C&H, Florida Crystals retail brands). Overlaps with M.A. Patout & Son as the dominant buyer of U.S. raw cane sugar and as a competitor at the broader industrial sugar interface.
• Tereos (Tereos Starch & Sweeteners / Tereos Louisiana): Global sugar, ethanol, and starch producer with significant Louisiana operations. Comparable as a diversified sugarcane processor in the same geography, though broader in product portfolio (ethanol, starches, sweeteners).
• Cargill (Sugar and Ethanol): Diversified global commodities trader with a sugar and ethanol business that interfaces with industrial raw sugar customers. Comparable as a major participant in the U.S. and global raw sugar supply chain, though within a much broader portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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