For many years, one of the most recognizable brands on store shelves in the West was U&I sugar. U&I produced sugar extracted from sugar beets. In the 1850s, Mormon John Taylor formed the Deseret Manufacturing Company, predecessor to U&I. It built its first factory at Salt Lake City, but it failed. Further studies were made and the Utah Sugar Company formed on September 4, 1889. The factory made its first sugar on October 15, 1891.
