Press Releases

Read about the development of AGRANA’s business operations in our press releases and other publications.

AGRANA already to take over 100% of Atys by Year-End 2005

AGRANA and Butler Capital Partners (the former majority shareholder of the Atys Group) have agreed to bring forward the outstanding stages in AGRANA’s 100 per cent takeover of Financière Atys S.A., France.The original agreement was for a four-step takeover to be completed…

AGRANA Reports a Successful First Quarter of 2005/06

The AGRANA Group’s revenues during the first quarter of the current 2005/06 financial year (1 March through 31 May 2005) were 23.5 per cent up on the same period of 2004/05 at € 282.1 million

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…