It would be hard to imagine life without that sweet powdery white stuff, sugar that is. Sugar is an ubiquitous product. There is sugar in so many of the products we consume on the daily. Cereal, protein bars, ketchup, and even spaghetti sauce list sugar as one of its ingredients. This thesis paper serves as an analysis of potential price fixing within the sugar processing industry, with an emphasis of analyzing and contrasting the Midwest sugar beet refining market and Northeast sugarcane refining market. This thesis takes a more focused look into the acquisition and purchasing of refined sugar and how additional costs associated with transportation affect the ability to do the former. My aim by the end of this paper is to draw a clear picture of this market and the external forces that influence its pricing.
