Tereos: sugar, starch and crop processing
Tereos, the cooperative group making sugar, starch and ethanol from beet, cane and starch crops, with EUR 5.132 billion in group revenue in 2025/26.
Tereos is a cooperative group processing sugar beet, sugarcane and starch crops into sugar, starch, sweeteners, alcohol and ethanol.
France · Cooperative group
Tereos is a cooperative group that connects growers with the industrial processing of sugar beet, sugarcane and starch crops. Its customers include food, beverage and industrial manufacturers. Facilities operate in several regions with different crop seasons and end markets, from a European cooperative base to substantial sugarcane activities in Brazil. Reporting is organised into Sugar and Renewables Europe, Sugar and Renewables International, and Starch, Sweeteners and Renewables.
A single crop can supply several product categories. Sugar is sold as a food ingredient, alcohol goes into industrial applications and ethanol into fuel, and each has its own specification, delivery requirements and end use. Processing also yields co-products used by feed businesses. Revenue therefore moves with prices, currencies, volumes and sales mix, not only with the amount of beet or cane the group takes in from growers.
Size of the business
Tereos reported EUR 5.132 billion in group revenue for 2025/26, the fiscal year from April 2025 to March 2026.
Does Tereos only produce sugar?
No. Starch, sweetening ingredients, alcohol and ethanol are also important activities.
Does falling revenue mean fewer sugar beet purchases?
Not necessarily. Prices, currencies, volumes and sales mix all affect revenue, and raw material intake is measured by separate figures.
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