EANS-General Meeting: AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG / Resolutions of the General Meeting

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AGRANA Annual Shareholders' Meeting agrees dividend increase

The 24th Ordinary Annual Shareholders' Meeting of AGRANA
Beteiligungs-AG today resolved to increase the dividend for the past
financial year from EUR 1.95 to EUR 2.40 per share. "This dividend
increase is intended to allow our shareholders to benefit from the
excellent development during the past business year", says AGRANA CEO
Johann Marihart.

The members of the Management Board, Johann Marihart (CEO), Fritz
Gattermayer, Walter Grausam and Thomas Kölbl, and the Supervisory
Board were discharged of their respective responsibility for the
2010|11 financial year in the course of the Annual Shareholders'
Meeting.

In support of a further resolution tabled by the Supervisory Board,
the shareholders approved an increase in Supervisory Board
remuneration for the 2010|11 financial year to EUR 200,000.

Following the departure of Ludwig Eidmann, Johann Fenner was
appointed to the Supervisory Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG for the
remainder of the tenure of his predecessor, i.e. until the end of the
Annual Shareholders' Meeting at which resolutions will be passed on
the discharge of board members for the financial year 2011|12. The
Supervisory Board of AGRANA is therefore now composed as follows:
Christian Konrad (Chairman), Wolfgang Heer (1st Deputy Chairman),
Erwin Hameseder (2nd Deputy Chairman), Jochen Fenner, Hans-Jörg
Gebhard, Ernst Karpfinger, Thomas Kirchberg and Christian Teufl, as
well as the members appointed by the Works' Council, namely Thomas
Buder, Stephan Savic, Peter Vymyslicky and Gerhard Glatz.

The auditing and tax consultancy KPMG Austria GmbH was appointed to
act as the auditor for the 2011|12 financial year.

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

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) Christine Göller
Public Relations
Tel.: +43-1-211 37-12084
e-mail: christine.goeller@agrana.com

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issuer: AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG
Donau-City-Straße 9
A-1220 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
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language: English