Financial News

AGRANA to take over DSF

AGRANA intends to take over DSF Deutsch-Schweizerische Früchteverarbeitung GmbH, based in Constance, Germany, from its present Swiss owner. This company was originally a part of the ATYS Group. AGRANA’s Board of Management told the staff of DSF about its plans during a…

AGRANA Closes the 2004/05 Financial Year with Outstanding Results

As CEO Hans Marihart announced at today’s press conference to present the balance sheet in Vienna, “The AGRANA Group achieved its best-ever consolidated results during the 2004/05 financial year, recording sharp growth in both revenues and profits

AGRANA Decides To Begin Bioethanol Production

Christian Konrad, Chairman of AGRANA’s Supervisory Board, has made the following announcement: “At its meeting today, the Supervisory Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG gave the go-ahead for the construction of a bioethanol plant with a capacity of 200,000 cubic metres a year in…

AGRANA — Provisional Full-Year Results for 2004/05

The AGRANA Group closed its 2004/05 financial year with year-on-year increases in sales revenues and profits.

AGRANA to Acquire Majority Stake in Atys Group

AGRANA has acquired another 6 per cent of France’s Financière Atys with effect from 3 March 2005 and therefore now holds a 56 per cent stake in French global fruit preparations company Atys.This acquisition is in fulfilment of a contract for the gradual acquisition of a 100…

AGRANA to Carry out Capital Increase

With the consent of the Supervisory Board, the Board of Management of AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft has decided in principle to carry out a capital increase by utilizing the authorized capital as approved by the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders held on 5…

AGRANA Continues to Develop well in 3rd Quarter

The Group’s positive development during the first half continued during the third quarter of the current 2004/05 financial year

AGRANA / Wink-Group – Contracts of Sale Effected

On 3 January 2005, Danish AGRANA Group member Vallø Saft, Wink Verwaltungs GmbH and Mr. Anton Franz Wink, of Bingen, Germany, signed a closing agreement that gave legal validity to the contracts for the acquisition of a 100 % stake in Germany’s WINK Group.The necessary…

AGRANA – Maize Starch Factory in Hörbranz (Vorarlberg Province)

At the end of December 2004, AGRANA terminated the lease agreement with Mr. E. Deuring with effect from 30 June 2005. The consequence of the lease termination will be the discontinuation of maize starch production at the Hörbranz site in the course of the first half of 2005.…

AGRANA – Board of Management to ask for Increase in Authorized Capital

The Board of Management of AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft will be asking an extraordinary general meeting of the company’s shareholders on 5 November 2004 to pass an anticipatory resolution authorizing a future increase in capital. The application will request…

AGRANA – Successful First Half of 2004/05

Sales revenues during the first half of the current financial year (1 March through 31 August 2004) increased by 9.9 per cent to € 472.4 million, and first-half profit from operating activities grew by 5.1 per cent to € 40 million

AGRANA Fruit Continues to Expand by Taking Over Germany’s WINK Group

On 11 October 2004, Danish AGRANA Group member Vallø Saft signed the contract for the acquisition of a 100% stake in Germany’s WINK Group, based in Bingen, Germany, from Wink Verwaltungs GmbH and Mr. Anton Franz Wink, of Bingen, Germany. Wink is a major European producer of …

AGRANA - ATYS: Contracts of Sale Effected

On 28 July 2004, AGRANA, Vienna, and Butler Capital Partners, Paris, signed a closing agreement that gave legal validity to the contracts for AGRANA’s takeover of the Atys Group, which is domiciled in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France.The necessary approvals under competition…

AGRANA – Successful First Quarter of 2004|05

AGRANA’s revenues during the first quarter of the current financial year (1 March through 31 May 2004) were 18 per cent up on the year, and profit from operating activities grew by 14 per cent

AGRANA ends a successful 2003/04 financial year

Good results after drought year even in the absence of any extraordinary factors to increase profitsAs CEO Johann Marihart told today’s press conference to present the group’s annual financial statements, “We closed the financial year, which was marred by poor harvests, with…

AGRANA - ATYS: Actual Status of the Antitrust Proceedings

Stand der kartellrechtlichen Verfahren: Genehmigung in Frankreich und Ungarn, Untersagung in erster Instanz in Deutschland.

ATYS-Takeover Agreement Signed

AGRANA, Vienna, and Butler Capital Partners, Paris, today signed the agreement for AGRANA’s gradual takeover of the ATYS Group, which is domiciled in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, and is the world leader in fruit preparations for use by the processing industries. The takeover is…

AGRANA – A SUCCESSFUL 3rd QUARTER 2003/04

During the third quarter of the current financial year lasting from 1 September through 30 November 2003, we were able to sustain the Group’s satisfactory development during the second quarter

AGRANA – RESULTS FOR HALF-YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2003

AGRANA developed satisfactorily during the second quarter of the current group financial year lasting from 1 June through 31 August 2003.

AGRANA – INTERIM REPORT ON THE 1ST QUARTER OF THE 2003/04 FINANCIAL YEAR

The first quarter of the current financial year lasted three months (1 March through 31 May 2003) throughout the group after the balance-sheet dates of the AGRANA International companies were brought into line with the consolidated group’s balance-sheet date (last day of…