Compania Azucarera Hondurena

What Compania Azucarera Hondurena does

Compania Azucarera Hondureña, S.A. (CAHSA) is a privately held Honduran sugar producer founded in 1938 and headquartered at Carretera a San Pedro Sula, Km 145, in San Pedro Sula, Cortés. The company operates a single core product line — high-quality sugar — produced through cane milling and refining operations that have been progressively modernized, with capacity expansion in 1960, technology incorporation in 1990, and a strengthened sustainability program formalized in 2020. CAHSA serves national and Central American regional markets via direct sales to enterprise buyers; its stated focus is on technology-driven operational efficiency, sustainable agricultural practices, and the generation of direct and indirect employment for Honduran families.

CAHSA's operations are embedded within Grupo CAHSA, a diversified corporate group whose affiliates include AYSA, Choluteca, LOSUSA, MYASA, PF, SASA, TASA, Texaco (fuel distribution), and ZSJ, providing cross-vertical scale across sugar, fuel, and other industrial activities. The company's competitive positioning is anchored in four international certifications — HACCP (since 2017), ISO 9001:2015 (since 2018), FSSC 22000 V6 (since 2020), and Kosher (since 2021) — which collectively attest to food-safety, quality-management, and religious-dietary compliance.

The business model is commodity sugar production and direct distribution within Central America, with revenue mechanics not publicly disclosed. Pricing is not publicly listed, no customer logos are published, and no revenue or headcount-over-time figures are available; the dataset records an 11-50 employee entity-level count that is inconsistent with an 80+ year industrial milling operation and likely captures only a narrow corporate subset. Marketing is limited to organic social media presence. There is no evidence of software, digital platform, AI, or API components; the company's technological footprint is industrial-process automation within the milling and supply chain.

Name

Compania Azucarera Hondurena

Legal name

Compañía Azucarera Hondureña, S.A.

Website

https://cahsa.hn

Company type

Private

Founded year

1938

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Compania Azucarera Hondureña (CAHSA) is a privately held Honduran sugar producer founded in 1938, operating a single-product sugar mill from San Pedro Sula and serving national and Central American enterprise buyers via direct sales, with food-safety, ISO 9001, and Kosher certifications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sugar Production

NAICS

Cane Sugar Manufacturing (311314)

SIC

Sugar & Confectionery Products (2060)

akta.pro primary industry

Sugarcane Farming (AFAGAEAA)

Keywords

• Sugar production
• Sugar manufacturing
• Food processing
• Agricultural commodities
• Industrial sugar supply

Headquarters

HQ city

Distrito Central, Francisco Morazán

HQ country

Honduras

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Compania Azucarera Hondurena produces and distributes high-quality refined sugar (Azúcar de alta calidad) from its processing facility in San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras. Operations are backed by internationally certified food safety and quality management systems, modern milling technology, and sustainable agricultural practices developed over more than 80 years of continuous operation since 1938.

Product overview

Compania Azucarera Hondurena operates as a single-product sugar production company focused on producing high-quality sugar. The company, founded in 1938, has expanded its operations through phases including capacity expansion in 1960, modernization with technology incorporation in 1990, and sustainability initiatives in 2020. The company maintains multiple subsidiary companies (Grupo CAHSA) including AYSA, Choluteca, LOSUSA, MYASA, PF, SASA, TASA, Texaco, and ZSJ for operational diversification across strategic sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Azúcar de alta calidad (High-quality sugar) Bulk refined sugar produced at the CAHSA facility in San Pedro Sula, Cortés, Honduras, manufactured under HACCP, ISO 9001:2015, FSSC 22000 V6, and Kosher-certified processes and supplied to national and Central American regional commercial buyers.

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.

• Grupo CAHSA (AYSA, Choluteca, LOSUSA, MYASA, PF, SASA, TASA, Texaco, ZSJ)coreOthersCAHSA operates as part of Grupo CAHSA, a diversified corporate group including AYSA, Choluteca, LOSUSA, MYASA, PF, SASA, TASA, Texaco (fuel), and ZSJ. These affiliated companies support operational diversification across strategic sectors including agriculture, industry, and fuel distribution.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• ASR Group: One of the world's largest cane sugar refiners (Domino, C&H, Florida Crystals), serving North American and global CPG customers; broadly incumbent in refined sugar with overlapping buyer universe to CAHSA.
• Tereos: Large French-headquartered sugar cooperative with significant operations in Brazil and Europe; broadly incumbent in the same commodity category as CAHSA, with overlapping buyers in food, beverage, and ethanol markets.
• Cosan Limited: Brazilian conglomerate active in sugar, ethanol, and logistics (Raízen joint venture); broadly incumbent in Latin American sugar and competing with CAHSA for export share to global CPG and beverage customers.
• Südzucker: Europe's largest sugar producer with diversified operations across beet sugar, ethanol, and related products; operates in the same underlying commodity category and competes for similar global sugar buyers.

Regional players

• Ledesma: Argentine vertically integrated producer of sugar, ethanol, paper, and fruit products with cane farming operations; comparable regional Latin American sugar producer with diversified industrial footprint similar in spirit to Grupo CAHSA.
• Grupo Gloria: Peruvian diversified conglomerate with sugar operations (Casa Grande) and adjacent food categories; comparable Latin American sugar producer operating in a similar regional macro environment and competing in similar export markets.
• British Sugar: UK's sole beet sugar processor owned by ABF; comparable vertically integrated sugar operation focused on a single national/regional market, providing a useful reference point for asset intensity and certification-driven market access.

Direct peers

• Ingenio La Unión: Guatemalan sugar mill producing refined sugar from sugarcane for domestic and export markets; directly comparable in production process, scale band, and target customer base across Central America.
• Azunosa (Azucarera del Norte): Honduran sugar mill operating in the same national market as CAHSA with a comparable sugarcane-to-sugar value chain, similar customer base (national and Central American buyers), and directly competing for the same direct-sales channels.
• Grupo Pantaleon: Central American sugar group with mills in Guatemala and the broader region, producing sugar and derivatives for similar B2B and export channels; comparable in vertical integration from cane to refined sugar and in pursuing international certifications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/compania-azucarera-hondurena

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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