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23-570: Manuelita was founded in 1864 when James Martin Eder, better known in Colombia as don Santiago Eder , an American citizen born in Mitau , Courland , bought the hacienda "La Manuelita", located near Palmira , from the father of famed Colombian novelist Jorge Isaacs at a public auction . The farm's namesake was Manuela Ferrer Scarpetta, Isaacs' mother. Eder planted various crops, including coffee in

46-479: A crushing capacity of 10,000 tons of cane per day, making it the second largest mill in Colombia after Ingenio del Cauca , a mill that was founded by Harold Henry Eder Caicedo and the Manuelita Group in the 1950s. Currently, Manuelita Azúcar y Energía produces nearly 300,000 tons of high quality refined sugar per year, and has a fuel ethanol production capacity of 250,000 lts per day (80,000 m/year). It

69-671: A project named Arena Dulce, or Sweet Sand, in which nearly 2000 hectares of Peruvian desert were planted in sugarcane using vanguard drip irrigation technology adapted by Manuelita technicians to the specificities of cane cultivation and harvesting and which are producing record levels of tons of cane per hectare and percentage of sucrose in cane. Additionally, Henry Eder diversified Manuelita into other products and countries in order to diversify risk, namely shrimp (Colombia), mussels (Chile), palm oil (Colombia), ethanol (Colombia, Brazil , Peru), asparagus (Peru), and table grapes (Peru). Many details of Manuelita's business affairs from

92-550: A total area of 1,052 hectares. Oceanos produces over 10,000 tons of shrimp per year and exports 90% of its production primarily to Europe, Japan and the United States. 1. Agroindustrial Laredo is one of the most competitive and fourth largest sugar producer in Peru. It currently produces over 100.000 metric tons of high quality refined sugar per year. Laredo's mill has a cane crushing capacity of 5,000 metric tons per day and

115-638: Is Harold Eder Garcés , who is don Santiago's great-great-grandson and belongs to the fifth generation of the Eder family in Colombia. Much of Santiago Eder's correspondence, mostly business-related, but also dealing with the Colombian government and personal family matters, are preserved at the Phanor James Eder Collection at the University of Miami . Meta Department Meta ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmeta] )

138-568: Is a department of Colombia . It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the Meta River , is covered by a grassland plain known as the Llanos . Its capital is Villavicencio . The department has a monument placed in the very geographic centre of Colombia, at a place known as Alto de Menegua,

161-401: Is a mussel farm located outside of Puerto Montt , Chile on Chiloe Island that was founded in 2003. MA is being developed into a vertically integrated operation throughout the entire value chain of the business from the actual farming, to processing, packaging and commercialization. MA's processing plant processes both company cultivated and third party cultivated mussels. 1. Vale do Parana

184-643: Is a special purpose company established in Brazil to grow sugar cane, construct, and operate a state-of-the-art mill to produce fuel ethanol and sugar in Suzanapolis, western region of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The mill will be developed in phases starting in 2008, when it will produce approximately 70,000 cubic metres (2,500,000 cu ft) of ethanol, until 2011, when it will produce approximately 90,000 cubic metres (3,200,000 cu ft) of ethanol (for

207-402: Is also a greenfield project to be laid out in cattle lands. Special attention is being given to environmental concerns, however, so as to ensure that the native flora and fauna of this Colombian frontier region are not adversely affected by Manuelita's arrival. 3. Océanos is a 99,9% owned subsidiary of Manuelita and the world's largest contiguous shrimp farm with 148 production pools covering

230-528: Is an African palm oil processing company based in Bogota, Colombia, but with operations in the Meta and Casanare departments of Colombia. The Meta plant, known as Yaguarito, was a greenfield project started in 1986 in the cattle lands of Colombia's Eastern Plains . The Company owns approximately 15,000 hectares of palm and is served by an additional 20,000 hectares of palm owned by independent farmers. Each year

253-422: Is one of Colombia's first fuel bio ethanol producers and its most efficient producer. Given Manuelita's strict adherence to a sound environmental policy, the company's ethanol production process is geared to produce as little vinasse as possible (2 liters of vinasse per liter of ethanol vs. 12-20 liters of vinasse per liter of ethanol in standard plants). 2. Manuelita Aceites y Energía (Manuelita Oil and Energy)

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276-457: Is served with sugarcane that is cultivated in over 15,000 hectares of land. The company owns and cultivates cane on nearly 8,000 hectares of company owned land, including almost 1,000 hectares of desert which Manuelita technicians were able to successfully plant with cane using drip irrigation technology and taking full advantage of the Chavimochic irrigation canal. 1. Mejillones America

299-597: Is still chairman of the board. As of April 1, 2008, don Santiago's great-great-grandson Harold Enrique Eder Garcés is President of IMSA. In 1980, the size of the company was cut in half, after barely surviving a hostile takeover attempt by the Carlos Ardila Lülle 's business group. This unfortunate incident resulted in the split of the Ingenio Manuelita and Ingenio del Cauca sugar mills. This latter mill had been founded by Harold Henry Eder while he

322-609: The consul of the United States in Buenaventura, as well as the vice-consul of Chile . In 1867 he traveled to London where he met and married Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Benjamin in the New Synagogue. In their marriage certificate, the name of don Santiago's father is given as 'Moses Eder'. From this marriage were born his children Henry, Charles, Luisa, Walter, Phanor, Fanny and Edith Eder. In 1901, Manuelita became

345-587: The Colombian sea port of Buenaventura where he worked as a lawyer and a commercial representative for Panamanian trading firms when Panama was still part of Colombia. In 1864 he bought the Manuelita sugar and coffee farm near the city of Palmira in the Cauca Valley of Colombia. He bought this farm at a public auction in Cali from the father of leading Colombian novelist Jorge Isaacs . In 1866 Eder became

368-535: The Yaguarito operation processes nearly 150,000 tons of fruit and produces refined palm oil , bio diesel and other sub-products . In 2009, Manuelita purchased a 25,000 hectare property in Casanare province to set up a second palm oil processing operation which will also look to primarily produce refined palm oil and bio diesel. Palmar de Altamira's new processing plant started operating in 2014. This new operation

391-466: The farm, but eventually centered on sugar, and "on the first day of the first year of the twentieth century" he inaugurated a new sugar mill which had Colombia's first steam engine , and replaced the former ox-powered mill. After don Santiago's retirement in 1903, Manuelita continued to grow under the leadership of his sons Charles James Eder, and Henry James Eder, his grandson Harold Henry Eder Caicedo, and his great-grandson Henry James Eder Caicedo, who

414-585: The first Colombian sugar mill to move from mule to steam powered mills. As such, don Santiago became one of Colombia's first industrialists. In 1903 he left his children Charles James and Henry James Eder in charge of his business interests and moved with his wife to New York . He remained there until his death at 83 in 1921. Eder is buried at the Shearith Israel Cemetery in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn . His nephew Montague David Eder

437-587: The internal market) and 140,000 mt of raw sugar for the export market. Upon full implementation, Vale do Parana will have a total milling capacity of 2 million mt of cane/year supplied from 22,000 hectares (54,000 acres) of sugar cane, 50% of which will be cultivated on leased land with the remainder sourced from dedicated third-party suppliers. Santiago Eder James Martin Eder (June 24, 1838 – December 26, 1921), known in Colombia as Santiago Martín Eder Kaiser , don Santiago Eder or simply "El Fundador",

460-530: The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are preserved at the Phanor James Eder Collection at the University of Miami , which includes a great deal of don Santiago 's business correspondence. 1. Manuelita Azúcar y Energía (Manuelita Sugar and Energy) is Colombia's oldest sugar mill and the original business of the Manuelita group of companies. Currently Manuelita Azúcar y Energía is served by 25,000 hectares of land, 15,000 of which are company owned, and has

483-923: Was a Colombian businessman who is considered the pioneer of the sugar industry , and is widely recognized as one of Colombia's leading 19th-century industrial pioneers. Eder was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family in Goldingen in the Courland Governorate in the Russian Empire . He was the son of Martin Sass Eder and Dorina Kaiser, and was the youngest of their seven children. In 1851 Santiago Eder immigrated from Courland to New York City where his older brother and most of his siblings already lived. He completed his education and after some work experience entered Harvard Law School in 1858. In 1861 he moved to San Francisco , and from there moved to

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506-598: Was at the head of the Eder Family enterprise and was hence a great loss to the family both economically and sentimentally. Under Henry J. Eder's stewardship (1965–2008), Manuelita's standing in Colombia's sugar sector in terms of production was fully recovered and even surpassed when compared to Manuelita and Ingenio del Cauca's combined production levels in 1980. During this period of time, Manuelita also expanded its sugar production to ventures in Peru and Brazil , including

529-540: Was one of England's leading Zionists. After his death, the Manuelita sugar company saw further expansions in 1927 and 1939. In 1952 under the management of Harold Henry Eder , Santiago's grandson, Manuelita became the first sugarcane mill in Colombia to make refined sugar. Under Santiago Eder's great-grandson Henry James Eder Manuelita started an international expansion, and today is one of Colombia's leading agro/industrial companies with operations in Colombia, Peru , Brazil and Chile . The current president of Manuelita

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