Industry during the early period of the protectorate on focused food processing for local consumption: there were canneries, a sugar refinery (Compagnie Sucriere Marocaine, COSUMA),[31] a brewing company (Société des Brasseries du Maroc, SBM),[32] and flourmills.[33][4] Manufacturing and heavy industry, however, were not embraced for fears of competing with Metropolitan France.[30]