The AGRANA Share

AGRANA went public in 1991. Since 2002 the shares of AGRANA, the international company specialising in SUGAR, STARCH and FRUIT, are listed in the Prime Market segment of the Vienna stock exchange.

To be included in that segment, issuers must maintain higher standards of transparency, share quality and disclosure than those laid down by Austria's stock exchange act.

Furthermore, AGRANA shares are listed in Frankfurt's Präsenzhandel segment as well as in Stuttgart's and Berlin-Bremen's Freiverkehr segment. 

The value of the AGRANA share has increased stately over the past years. That has been a result of AGRANA's listing in the Prime Market segment (since January 1, 2002) following the transformation of AGRANA's preference shares into ordinary shares, the growth potential of Eastern Europe that became apparent to many as EU enlargement approached, and the group's diversification into its new Fruit Juice Concentrates and Fruit Preparations segment. 

AGRANA successfully placed a capital increase in February 2005.  It increased the number of issued shares to 14,202 million. The issue price was set at EUR 72 per share. The proceeds from the capital increase came to roughly EUR 229 million and served to finance AGRANA's global growth strategy.

 
A per-share dividend of EUR 1.95 was declared for the 2007|08 financial year.

Z&S Zucker und Stärke Holding AG (Z&S), based in Vienna, holds 75.5% of the share capital of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG. The other 24.5% of the shares represent free float. Z&S is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vienna-based AGRANA Zucker, Stärke und Frucht Holding AG, which in turn is 50% owned by Südzucker AG, Mannheim/Ochsenfurt, Germany (Südzucker) and 50% owned by Zucker-Beteiligungsgesellschaft m.b.H., Vienna (ZBG). The following five Vienna-based entities are shareholders of ZBG: Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich Wien reg.Gen.m.b.H.; Marchfelder Zuckerfabriken Gesellschaft m.b.H.; Estezet Beteiligungsgesellschaft m.b.H.; Rübenproduzenten Beteiligungs GesmbH; and Leipnik-Lundenburger Invest Beteiligungs AG. Under a syndicate agreement between Südzucker and ZBG, the partners in the consortium have certain nomination rights with respect to AGRANA’s governing boards.

In July 2008 Prudential plc, London, reported ownership (together with some of its subsidiaries) of more than 10% of AGRANA’s share capital (Download: Investors Information).