EANS-Adhoc: Management Board Change at AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG

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Board of Directors (Appointments and Changes)
08.05.2014

The AGRANA Group announces that Walter Grausam, Chief Financial
Officer, will be leaving the Management Board of the AGRANA Group
(AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG) and retiring upon the expiry of his current
contract on 31 December 2014. Walter Grausam has been the CFO of the
AGRANA Group since 1995 and is stepping down at the end of the year
at his own request and in accordance with his personal planning. He
has contributed significantly to establishing AGRANA as a successful
international industrial player. At its meeting today, the
Supervisory Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG expressed its deep-felt
appreciation for all of his work as CFO over the years.

At the same time, the Supervisory Board of AGRANA also appointed
Stephan Büttner a member of the Management Board effective 1 November
2014. With effect from 1 January 2015, Stephan Büttner will be the
board member responsible for the areas of Finance, Controlling,
Treasury, Data Processing / Organisation, Mergers & Acquisitions,
Legal Affairs as well as for the Fruit segment.

After graduating in commercial sciences from the Vienna University of
Economics and Business, Stephan Büttner, now aged 41, initially
worked in positions at companies including KPMG AUSTRIA GmbH and
EULOX LOGISTICS GmbH. After joining Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG in
2001 Stephan Büttner was CEO at its subsidiary Ybbstaler Fruit
Austria GmbH as of 2004. He has been working for the AGRANA Group
since 2012. As CEO of AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH, a joint venture of AGRANA
Beteiligungs-AG and Raiffeisen Ware Austria-AG, Stephan Büttner
successfully managed the merger of AGRANA Juice GmbH and Ybbstaler
Fruit Austria GmbH.

About AGRANA AGRANA adds value to agricultural commodities to produce
top quality foodstuffs and numerous industrial upstream products.
Around 8,800 personnel working at over 50 production facilities
worldwide generate consolidated revenue of approximately three
billion euros. The Company was founded in 1988 and is today the
leading sugar company in Central and Eastern Europe as well as being
a key producer, in the Starch segment, of special products and
bioethanol in Europe. AGRANA is also the global leader in fruit
preparations and one of the largest European producers of fruit juice
concentrates.

This announcement is available in German and English at
www.agrana.com.

Further inquiry note:
AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG

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

Mag.(FH) Hannes Haider
Investor Relations
Tel.: +43-1-211 37-12905
e-mail:hannes.haider@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