The 400,000 sugar beet growers represented by CIBE produce on average just under 20 million tonnes of white sugar per year from around 2 million hectares, intended mainly for the 600 million inhabitants of the CIBE member countries.

Members of CIBE are national and regional associations. At present CIBE represents sugar beet growers from 18 European beet-producing countries; this includes 160,000 growers from 16 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, the United Kingdom) as well as 240,000 growers from 2 non-EU countries (Switzerland and Turkey).