In 2012 a reconstruction started to change the old buildings to a large shopping mall called De Zeeland.

In late December 1862, the municipality of Goes declined his request from June that year, to get a lease on city terrains as a location for a sugar factory.

On 22 December 1862 Wittouck gave orders to lay the foundations for a sugar factory in Bergen op Zoom.

Wittouck had already bought the machinery at Cail Allaur & Co.[3] On 9 March 1863 J. van den Heuvel from Tilburg won the order to further construct the sugar factory on the south side of the harbor for 32,049 guilders.

However, in 1870 the partnership Laane, Rogier, Daverveldt & Co was formed to found another sugar factory in Bergen op Zoom.

[5] In January 1871 'Van der Linden & Co.' gave orders to construct the final parts of a third sugar factory in Bergen op Zoom, located near the big arsenal.

The arrival of Paul Wittouck in Breda signaled a slow transfer of authority to him.

[13] In January 1884 there was talk of the sugar factory of Paul Wittouck in Breda and Bergen op Zoom.

[15] Paul Wittouck invested heavily in modernizing the sugar factory in Bergen op Zoom.

However, in July 1885 the factory of Paul Wittouck got permission to build a railroad from the station to the new harbor.

[19] It led to the sugar factories of Breda and Bergen op Zoom being part of the same company.

[21] The main problem of the company was the challenge of getting enough beet at a price low enough to make a good profit.

[22] In 1897 Paul Wittouck attempted to enforce this by founding the Nederlandsche Maatschappij van Beetwortelsuiker Industrie, in which 19 producers participated.

[22] In May 1903 Wittouck bought the sugar factory 'De Twaalf Apostelen' of competitor Laane, Rogier, Daverveldt & Co.[26] In September 1905 the public company Suikerfabrieken van Breda en Bergen op Zoom N.V. was founded.

[27] In 1908 the Suikerfabrieken van Breda en Bergen op Zoom merged with Sugar factory de Mark in Oudenbosch to form the Algemeene Suiker Maatschappij (ASMij).

The cooperative got an opportunity, when during World War I, the government put a maximum on the amount of beets that each sugar factory was allowed to process.

[22] In August 1916 the cooperative bought the Bergen op Zoom factory for 1,160,000 guilders.

Cranes unloaded the boats directly onto these gorren, from where the beet were washed to the first factory hall.

At the same time the factory invested 250,000-300,000 guilders in a new harbor to facilitate the flow of resources and products.

To make matters worse, a lot of cheap raw cane sugar was imported from Java.

In March 1929 the Zeeland cooperative therefore decided that the beets which it had promised to buy for the 1929/30 campaign would be processed in Dinteloord and Zevenbergen.

[41] The short explanation for the required deposit is that the cooperative was in debt for a few million, mainly invested in buildings and machinery.

A hall, the refinery, the boiler house, and the chimney on the south side of the harbor were demolished.

Several plans were made till the municipality of Bergen op Zoom became actively involved in 2009.

Plans were made to extend the shopping center in the direction of the local 'furniture mall' meubel boulevard.