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New Management Board member at AGRANA – Supervisory Board appoints Stephan Meeder from 1 March 2024

In today´s meeting, the Supervisory Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG resolved to appoint Stephan Meeder (53) as a new member of the Management Board with effect from 1 March 2024. He will be responsible for internal audits at AGRANA, assuming the role of Thomas Kölbl (61).After…

AGRANA showcases diverse organic portfolio for the food industry at BIOFACH 2024

At the BIOFACH fair in Nuremberg, from 13 to 16 February 2024, all eyes will be firmly focused on innovation in the food industry. For the fruit, starch and sugar group AGRANA, the world’s largest trade fair for organic foods is again the ideal stage to show off its organic…

AGRANA strongly improves earnings in first three quarters

Revenue: € 2,947.8 million (+7.5%; Q1-Q3 prior year: € 2,742.5 million) EBIT: € 149.4 million (+197.6%; Q1-Q3 prior year: € 50.2 million[1]) EBIT margin: 5.1% (Q1-Q3 prior year: 1.8%) Profit for the period: € 78.1 million (+1,346.3%; Q1-Q3 prior year: € 5.4 million) Outloo…

Stephan Büttner new CEO of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG

Markus Mühleisen leaving

Changes on the Management Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG

The Supervisory Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG today appointed Stephan Büttner, 50, as Chief Executive Officer of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG with effect from 1 January 2024. In addition, his existing Management Board term, which expires on 31 October 2024, was renewed until 31…

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AGRANA showcases new food trends at Food Ingredients Europe

The Austrian foods group AGRANA will be present at the Food Ingredients Europe event, one of the most important trade fairs for foods and beverages, in Frankfurt (28 – 30 November 2023) to show off the wide range of products from its fruit preparations, fruit juice concentrates,…

AGRANA confers promotion award for science and research at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

AGRANA today conferred its research promotion award at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. Norbert Harringer, management board member at AGRANA responsible for production, commodity procurement and sustainability, handed over the research promotion…

AGRANA grows profit in first six months and remains on track

AGRANA, the international fruit, starch and sugar group, generated revenue of € 1,959.5 million in the first half of the 2023|24 financial year, an increase of 9.3% year-on-year (H1 prior year: € 1,792.3 million). Operating profit (EBIT) jumped to € 110.9 million (H1 prior year:…

Start of the 2023 sugar beet campaign

Good conditions for 2024 growing season – contracting startedThis week, AGRANA started the sugar beet processing season (campaign) at its sugar refineries in Tulln and Leopoldsdorf, in the Marchfeld region. Following a sunny September, beet sugar levels are considerably higher…

Major step toward climate targets: AGRANA is Austria’s first food producer with validated greenhouse gas reduction targets

AGRANA announces a major success related to sustainability: The globally-renowned non-governmental organisation Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) has concluded its audit of AGRANA Group’s ambitious climate goals and officially confirmed that these are in line with the…