A. E. Staley
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A. E. Staley is a Decatur, Illinois based processor of corn and soybeans, owned by Tate & Lyle, PLC. It produces starch, corn syrup, soybean oil, fructose and other agroindustrial products. AE Staley Manufacturing Company was the center of a controversy in 1993 when the company locked out hundreds of workers after the workers had rejected a union-busting contract.
[edit] History
Augustus Eugene Staley founded a sales company for food starch in Baltimore in 1898. In 1909 he bought a factory in Decatur, Illinois in order to start the production of food starch. The factory started production in 1912.
Staley founded a football league in 1920. The members of his team, the Decatur Staleys, worked as semi-professionals in his factory. Later the team was renamed Chicago Bears.
