Südzucker AG engages in the production and distribution of sugar and related products. The company is headquartered in Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg and currently employs 19,853 full-time employees. The firm is organized, along with its subsidiaries, into five segments: sugar, special products, crop energies, starch, and fruit segments. Its Sugar segment activities include sugar, sugar AGRANA, agriculture; special products BENEO, which produces and sells ingredients made from natural raw materials for food and animal feed; Freiberger, a producer of chilled and frozen pizzas, frozen pasta dishes and snacks; PortionPack, which specializes in portion packs; and the starch division, which comprises starch companies. Crop Energies focuses on fuels and ethanol; starch for food, non-food, as well as renewable ethanol; fruits for AGRANA and beverage ingredients, among others. Its product portfolio includes sugar, special sugar products, glucose syrups, functional ingredients, frozen and chilled pizzas, portion pack articles, ethanol, animal feed, starch, as well as fruit preparations and others.