Mackay Sugar is Australia's second largest sugar cane processing and sugar manufacturing company. It currently has approximately 200 million shares on issue, held by 1018 Shareholders. Of those 1018 Shareholders 901 are Growers who supply cane under a Cane Supply and Processing Agreement.

Mackay Sugar operates three sugar mills located in the Mackay District of Queensland. The three mill areas have growers who have a total cane production area of approximately 86,000 hectares. The growers are capable (in good seasons) of supplying up to 6.5 million tonnes of cane to the factories for processing. On average, Mackay Sugar produces about 850,000 tonnes of raw sugar and 180,000 tonnes of the by-product molasses annually.