AGRANA now expects significant EBIT increase in 2025|26 financial year
EBIT decline in the second quarter of 2025|26 less sharp than expected
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AGRANA: autumn campaign 2025 fully under way
With the start of wet corn processing in Aschach/Donau yesterday, the 2025 autumn campaigns are now in full swing at five AGRANA sites across Austria. “Our teams have fully prepared the sites for the campaigns and performed various set-up and maintenance tasks aiming to achieve…
AGRANA expands: acquisition of Slovenian food company Mercator-Emba
The food group AGRANA is bolstering its presence in Europe through the acquisition of Mercator-Emba d.o.o. (EMBA), a leading Slovenian food manufacturer for the food service sector, food processors and food retailers. EMBA excels due to its expertise in the product development…
Financial first quarter of 2025|26: AGRANA posts predicted deterioration in earnings
First-quarter results at a glance (1 March to 31 May 2025) Revenue: € 880.2 million (Q1 previous year: € 944.3 million) EBIT: € 5.7 million (Q1 previous year: € 32.3 million) EBIT margin: 0.6% (Q1 previous year: 3.4%) Loss/profit for the period: loss of € 7.9 million (Q1…
AGRANA Annual General Meeting votes for a dividend of € 0.70
The 38th ordinary Annual General Meeting of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG today voted to pay out a dividend for the 2024|25 financial year in the amount of € 0.70 per share (prior year dividend: € 0.90 per share). AGRANA therefore remains committed to a predictable, reliable and…
Green light for joint venture between AGRANA and INGREDION in Romania
35 million euros investment will expand starch capacity, increase cost efficiency and enhance competitiveness
AGRANA resolves to acquire Raiffeisen Ware Austria (RWA) shares in AUSTRIA JUICE
AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG has passed a resolution to acquire all the shares held by RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG in AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH. As a result, the shares in AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH (currently 50.01 % AGRANA and 49.99 % RWA) will be fully acquired by AGRANA. Following the…
AGRANA resolves to fully acquire AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH
AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG (AGRANA), Vienna, has resolved to indirectly acquire a further 49.99% of the shares in AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH (AUSTRIA JUICE), Kröllendorf/Allhartsberg, Austria. These shares are currently indirectly held by RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG (RWA). Following the…
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AGRANA presents annual results for 2024|25
Cyclical downturn in starch market and pressure on sugar prices weigh on the Group’s bottom line Very good business performance in Fruit activities Outlook for full financial year 2025|26: steady EBIT CEO Büttner: "We are proactively addressing the ongoing challenging…
Dividend proposal of € 0.70 per share for the 2024|25 financial year
Group operating profit (EBIT) in 2025|26 on par with prior year
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Restructuring-related exceptional items in fourth quarter reduce Group EBIT for 2024|25
FY 2024|25 operating profit before exceptionals and JVs is slightly above own expectations
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AGRANA: Production at sugar factories in Leopoldsdorf (AT) and Hrušovany (CZ) to be ceased
AGRANA: Production at sugar factories in Leopoldsdorf (AT) and Hrušovany (CZ) to be ceasedCEO Büttner: “The goal is to make the sugar production site robust in difficult times – concentration of production in Austria in Tulln”At its meeting today, the AGRANA Supervisory…
AGRANA with structural measures in the Sugar segment; closure of one plant in Austria and one in the Czech Republic
At its meeting today, the AGRANA Supervisory Board approved the termination of sugar production at its site in Leopoldsdorf im Marchfeld, Austria, and at its site in Hrušovany, Czech Republic, with immediate effect.In Austria, AGRANA's entire domestic sugar production will be…
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AGRANA holds Capital Markets Day on its new “NEXT LEVEL” strategy
Stephan Büttner, CEO of AGRANA-Beteiligungs-AG, and Norbert Harringer, Group CTO, are presenting the new AGRANA Group strategy, named “NEXT LEVEL”, to analysts, institutional investors and bankers at the company’s Capital Markets Day on the evening of 16 January 2025 in Vienna…
AGRANA results for the first three quarters of 2024|25 (ended 30 November 2024)
Revenue: € 2,707.8 million (–8.1%; Q1-Q3 prior year: € 2,947.8 million) EBIT: € 51.1 million (–65.8%; Q1-Q3 prior year: € 149.4 million) EBIT margin: 1.9% (Q1-Q3 prior year: 5.1%) Profit for the period: € 14.5 million (–81.4%; Q1-Q3 prior year: € 78.1 million) Outlook for…
AGRANA and INGREDION plan joint venture in Romania
AGRANA Stärke GmbH, a subsidiary of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG, has signed a joint venture agreement with starch producer INGREDION Germany GmbH for the joint further development of starch production in Romania. On the basis of the agreement, which is subject to the approval by the…
AGRANA NEXT LEVEL: Supervisory Board approves new group strategy
Annual cost savings potential: € 80 – 100 million
AGRANA aims to save between € 80 million and € 100 million in annual costs with the Group strategy adopted today
Supervisory Board approves new AGRANA NEXT LEVEL strategy
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AGRANA now expects very significant EBIT decline in 2024|25 financial year
AGRANA Group recently confirmed its annual guidance on 10 October 2024 in the context of publishing its results for the first half of 2024|25. Significantly lower EBIT* was forecast for the 2024|25 financial year compared to the prior year (2023|24: € 151.0 million), with a…
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AGRANA: significant EBIT reduction in first half of 2024|25
Sugar market in particular remains challenging