EANS-General Meeting: AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG / Invitation to the General Meeting

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AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft
Vienna, FN 99489 h
ISIN AT0000603709

Invitation

We would like to invite our shareholders to the 26th Annual General
Meeting of AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft on Friday, July
5th, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. CET, at Raiffeisen Forum, A-1020 Vienna,
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Raiffeisen-Platz 1.

Agenda

* Presentation of the approved Financial Statements and Notes and the
Consolidated Financial Statements as of February 28th, 2013, as well
as of the Summary Management Report, including the Corporate
Governance Report and the Report of the Supervisory Board for the
financial year 2012/2013.

* Resolution on the appropriation of profits.

* Resolution on the formal approval of the actions of the members of
the Management Board for the financial year 2012/2013.

* Resolution on the formal approval of the action of the members of
the Supervisory Board for the financial year 2012/2013.

* Resolution on the remuneration received by the members of the
Supervisory Board for the financial year 2012/2013.

* Appointment of the Auditors and the Group Auditors for the
financial year 2013/2014.

* Resolution on the amendment of the Articles of Association for
adaptation to the Company Law Amendment Act 2011

Documents for the Annual General Meeting

In particular, the following documents will be presented on the
company's website {www.agrana.com}[HYPERLINK: http://www.agrana.com]
no later than June 14th, 2013 and will also be available at the
Annual General Meeting: * Financial statements; * Consolidated
Financial Statements and Summary Management Report, * Proposal for
the appropriation of profits; * Corporate Governance Report; and *
Report of the Supervisory Board

for the financial year 2012/2013; and

* Proposed resolutions concerning items 2 - 7 of the agenda; and
* Articles of Association with indication of the proposed amendments,
* Form for granting proxy;
* Form for granting proxy to a representative of the IVA,
* Form for the revocation of a proxy;
* Full text of this invitation.

NOTICE OF THE RIGHTS OF THE SHAREHOLDERS PURSUANT TO §§109, 110, 118
AND 119 OF THE AUSTRIAN STOCK CORPORATION ACT

Shareholders whose shares together amount to at least 5% of the share
capital and who have been holders of these shares for a period of at
least three months before the application may request in writing that
additional items be included in the Agenda for this Annual General
Meeting, and that an announcement be made in this respect, provided
such request is received by the Company in writing no later than June
14th, 2013, at A-1020 Vienna, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Raiffeisen-Platz 1,
Attn. Mrs. Gertraud Wöber, General Secretary. Each agenda item thus
requested must include a proposed resolution and an explanatory
statement. Shareholder ownership must be proven by submission of a
safe custody receipt pursuant to §10a of the Austrian Stock
Corporation Act, which confirms that the applicant shareholders have
owned shares for a period of at least three months prior to the
application and it may not have been issued more than seven days
prior to the time of submission to the Company. The other
requirements for the safe custody receipt are included in the
statements concerning the entitlement to participation.

Shareholders whose shares together amount to at least 1% of the share
capital may submit written proposals for resolutions including an
explanatory statement for any item on the agenda, and may request any
such proposal, including the explanatory statement and a possible
opinion thereon by the Management Board or the Supervisory Board, to
be made available on the website of the Company, provided such
written proposal is received by the Company no later than June 26th,
2013, via fax to +43 1 21137 12926, or via mail to A-1020 Vienna,
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Raiffeisen-Platz 1, Attn. Mrs. Gertraud Wöber,
General Secretary, or by email to gertraud.woeber@agrana.com, whereby
the written proposal shall be attached to the email in text format,
e.g. as a PDF. In case of a proposal for the election of a member of
the Supervisory Board, the statement of the proposed person pursuant
to §87IIof the Austrian Stock Corporation Act shall take the place of
the explanatory statement. Shareholder ownership to exercise this
shareholder's right must be proven through the submission of a safe
custody receipt pursuant to §10a of the Austrian Stock Corporation
Act, which must not have been issued earlier than seven days prior at
the time of submission. The other requirements for the safe custody
receipt are included in the statements concerning the entitlement to
participation in the Annual General Meeting.

Upon request, every shareholder shall be entitled to receive
information on the affairs of the Company during the Annual General
Meeting, to the extent that such information is necessary for the
proper assessment of an item on the agenda.

The information may be withheld, should it be deemed to have the
potential, on the basis of a reasonable business assessment, for
causing significant harm to the Company or any associated enterprise,
or should its disclosure provide reason for legal proceedings.

To ensure the effectiveness of the Annual General Meeting, any
questions whose answers may require a lengthy preparation shall be
submitted by July 4th, 2013, at 4:00 p.m., to the Management Board,
Attn. Mrs. Gertraud Wöber, General Secretary, via fax to +43 1 21137
12926 or by email to gertraud.woeber@agrana.com.

Further information on these shareholder rights pursuant to §§109,
110, 118 and 119 of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act is now
available on the Company's website www.agrana.com.

RECORD DATE AND PARTICIPATION IN THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The entitlement to participate in the Annual General Meeting and to
exercise the voting right and any other rights of shareholders to be
asserted in connection with the Annual General Meeting is subject to
holding shares at the end of June 25th, 2013 (record date).

Only persons who are holding shares on the record date and provide
evidence thereof shall be entitled to participate in the Annual
General Meeting.

The ownership of the shares held on the record date must be proven by
a safe custody receipt pursuant to §10a of the Austrian Stock
Corporation Act, which must be received by the Company no later than
July 2nd, 2013 exclusively at one of the addresses shown below.

Via mail: AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft
(in written form Attn. Mrs. Gertraud Wöber
pursuant to §886 General Secretary
of the Austrian
Civil Code)

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Raiffeisen-Platz 1
A-1020 Wien
Via fax: +43 (1) 8900 500 - 58
Via email: anmeldung.agrana@hauptversammlung.at; whereby the safe custody
receipt shall be attached to the email in text format, e.g. as a PDF.

AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft will not receive confirmations and
statements under §114I of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act via an
international, specifically secured communication network of credit institutions
(SWIFT), since other electronic means of communication (fax and email) have been
opened instead. This is because AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft has
offered SWIFT for electronic communication in the previous Annual General
Meetings, but the custodian banks have not made significant use thereof.

Canceled share certificates

AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft is required to replace all outstanding
bearer share certificates (physical share certificates) by a global certificate
and to deposit this at the Austrian Control Bank. This was reported in the 25th
Annual General Meeting. Based on the relevant approval of the Commercial Court
of Vienna on January 23rd, 2013, all shareholders who hold bearer shares in the
form of physical share certificates were notified via three notices in the
Official Gazette of the Vienna Newspaper to submit the share certificates no
later than May 27th, 2013. The Management Board, in a resolution on May 28th,
2013, has declared that the effective bearer share certificates that have not
been submitted pursuant to § 67 of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act in
conjunction with § 262 Para. 29 of the Austrian Stock Corporation Act are
invalid. The relevant notification was published in the Official Gazette of the
Vienna Newspaper on May 31st, 2013.

With their cancellation, these physical share certificates have lost
their status as securities and convey no right to participate in and
vote at the Annual General Meeting of AGRANA
Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft. Affected shareholders who still have
physical share certificates can submit the canceled stock
certificates to the Raiffeisen Centrobank AG, A-1010 Vienna,
Tegetthoffstrasse 1, as a submission counter or at the custodian
banks during normal business hours. Based on this, a credit can be
recorded on a securities account to be notified by the shareholder,
which would be equal to the number of ordinary shares respectively
submitted. The shareholder must arrange for this - in order to
maintain his/her right to participate in the forthcoming Annual
General Meeting - so that the Custodian deposit can be made at the
latest on the record date, June 25th, 2013.

Confirmation of deposit pursuant to §10a of the Austrian Stock
Corporation Act

The confirmation of deposit must be issued by the custodian bank
headquartered in a state which must be either a member state of the
European Economic Area or a full member of the OECD, and shall
contain the following data: * Information about the issuer: name and
address or a code used for transactions between banks; * Information
about the shareholder: name, address, date of birth for individuals,
register and register number for legal entities, if applicable; *
Information about the shares: Number of shares held by the
shareholder; ISIN AT0000603709; * Deposit number and/or any other
description; * Time to which the safe custody receipt refers.

The confirmation of deposit as evidence for the shareholding must
refer to the record date stated above, i.e. June 25th, 2013.

The confirmation of deposit will be accepted in German or in English.

REPRESENTATION BY PROXY

Each shareholder entitled to participate in the Annual General
Meeting has the right to appoint a proxy to participate in the Annual
General Meeting in the name of this shareholder and with the same
rights as the shareholder whom the proxy represents.

Proxy shall be granted to a person (an individual or a legal entity)
in writing. Multiple persons may be authorized.

The proxy must be received by the Company exclusively at any of the
addresses listed below:

Via mail: AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft
(in writing) Attn. Mrs. Gertraud Wöber
General Secretary
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Raiffeisen-Platz 1
A-1020 Wien
Via fax: +43 (1) 8900 500 - 58
Via email: anmeldung.agrana@hauptversammlung.at; whereby the safe custody
receipt shall be attached to the email in text format, e.g. as a PDF.
In Person: upon registration for the Annual General Meeting
at the venue for the meeting

Forms for granting and revocation of authorizations are available
upon request or can be downloaded from the Company's website at
www.agrana.com.

If the proxy is not personally presented at the date of the Annual
General Meeting, it must be submitted to the Company by July 14th,
2013 at 4:00 p.m. at the latest.

The above rules on granting of proxy shall apply mutatis mutandis to
the revocation of the same.

As a special service to the shareholders, a representative from the
Investor's Association (Interessenverband für Anleger, IVA), A-1130
Vienna, Feldmühlgasse 22, will be available as an independent
representative for the exercise of voting rights, subject to
directives, at the Annual General Meeting; for this, a special
authorization form can be downloaded from the Company's website at
www.agrana.com. In addition, you may also contact Dr. Michael Knap
from the IVA directly at Tel. +43 1 8763343-30, Fax +43 1 8763343-39
or email michael.knap@iva.or.at.

TOTAL NUMBER OF SHARES AND INTERIM CERTIFICATES

At the Annual General Meeting convening date, the share capital of
the Company, amounting to EUR 103,210,249.78, is divided into
14,202,040 bearer shares (shares). Each share holds one vote. At the
convening date of the Annual General Meeting, the Company holds own
shares neither directly nor indirectly. At the convening date of the
Annual General Meeting, the total number of participating and voting
shares is 14,202,040. There is only one class of shares.

In order to ensure that the entrance control runs smoothly, we would
like to ask the shareholders to arrive in due time before the
beginning of the Annual General Meeting. Admission for the collection
of voting cards shall start at 10:00 a.m.

Shareholders who have received either entry cards or copies of the
safe custody receipts from their custodian banks shall be requested
to produce an official, valid photo for identification at the Annual
General Meeting.

Vienna, June 2013

The Management Board

Further inquiry note:
AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG
Mag.(FH) Hannes Haider
Investor Relations
Tel.: +43-1-211 37-12905
e-mail: hannes.haider@agrana.com

Mag.(FH) Markus Simak
Public Relations
Tel.: +43-1-211 37-12084
e-mail:markus.simak@agrana.com

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issuer: AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG
F.-W.-Raiffeisen-Platz 1
A-1020 Wien
phone: +43-1-21137-0
FAX: +43-1-21137-12045
mail: info.ab@agrana.com
WWW: www.agrana.com
sector: Food
ISIN: AT0000603709
indexes: WBI, ATX Prime
stockmarkets: Präsenzhandel: Berlin, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, official market: Wien
language: English