Domino Foods, Inc. (also known as DFI for short) is an American privately held sugar marketing and sales company based in Yonkers, New York, that sells products produced by its manufacturing members. The company was founded in 1807 as the W. & F.C. Havemeyer Company by brothers William and Frederick Havemeyer. DFI distributes sugar to retailers under four brand names across the U.S: Domino, C&H, Florida Crystals, and Redpath. Domino Sugar has been sold in United States East Coast markets since 1901. It also sells agave nectar sweetener.
Domino Foods owns three major U.S. refineries, located in Yonkers, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; and Chalmette, Louisiana, with a combined production capacity of 2.2 million metric tons of sugar per year. It is owned by the Fanjul brothers. Their ownership has been controversial due to the tens of millions in corporate subsidies given to the company each year, some of which is returned back to politicians of both the Democratic Party and Republican Party in corporation donations, as well as the working conditions on their plantations, which have been described by critics as modern slavery.
