EANS-News: AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG / AGRANA Annual Shareholders' Meeting approves dividend increase and appoints members to the Supervisory Board

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Annual & Special Corporate Meetings

Wien (euro adhoc) - The 25th Ordinary Annual Shareholders' Meeting of
AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG today approved an increase in the dividend
payout from EUR 2.40 to EUR 3.60 per share for the financial year
2011|12. This is equivalent to a payout ratio of around one third of
the profit for the period and, therefore, is in line with AGRANA's
sustainable dividend policy. "The aim is to allow shareholders to
participate in the extremely positive development of business
activities in the past year," says AGRANA CEO, Johann Marihart.

Due to the expiry of the mandates of all eight elected members of the
Supervisory Board, the Annual Shareholders' Meeting also involved
their election and re-election. The Supervisory Board of AGRANA is
now composed as follows: Christian Konrad (Chairman), Wolfgang Heer
(First Deputy Chairman), Erwin Hameseder (Second Deputy Chairman),
Jochen Fenner, Hans-Jörg Gebhard, Ernst Karpfinger, Thomas Kirchberg,
Josef Pröll and the members appointed by the Central Staff Council,
namely Thomas Buder, Stephan Savic, Peter Vymyslicky and Gerhard
Glatz.

The members of the Management Board, Johann Marihart (CEO), Fritz
Gattermayer, Walter Grausam and Thomas Kölbl, as well as the members
of the Supervisory Board, were all released from their respective
responsibility for the 2011|12 financial year.

The auditing and tax consultancy KPMG Austria AG was appointed to act
as the auditor for the 2012|13 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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