AGRANA Annual Shareholders’ Meeting agrees dividend increase
The 24th Ordinary Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG today resolved to increase the dividend for the past financial year from EUR 1.95 to EUR 2.40 per share.
The 24th Ordinary Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG today resolved to increase the dividend for the past financial year from EUR 1.95 to EUR 2.40 per share.
In the first quarter of its 2011|12 financial year, AGRANA boosted it pre-exceptionals operating profit from around € 34m to approximately € 62m.
AGRANA brought its new production site in Egypt into service at the end of May 2011, which it operates under the name ‘AGRANA Nile Fruits’ as part of its joint venture with the Egyptian company Nile Fruits.
AGRANA rechnet nach einem Rekordkonzernumsatz von 2.165,9 m€ im Geschäftsjahr 2010|11 für das Geschäftsjahr 2011|12 mit einem weiteren Anstieg.
Revenue of AGRANA, the global sugar, starch and fruit group, grew by 8.9% in the 2010|11 financial year to € 2,165.9 million (prior year: € 1,989.2 million).
Over the next two years, AGRANA Bioethanol GmbH will be investing around € 56 m in building a starch factory for the production of wheat starch and gluten at the site of its bioethanol plant in Pischelsdorf|Lower Austria.
The sugar, starch and fruit group AGRANA and Raiffeisen Ware Austria (RWA) are considering a merger of their fruit juice concentrate subsidiaries AGRANA Juice Holding GmbH and Ybbstaler Fruit Austria GmbH in the form of a joint venture.
The Fruit segment of the sugar, starch and fruit company AGRANA will be investing around €27.6m over the next five years in the expansion of its fruit preparation plant in Serpuchov, around 100km south of Moscow.
AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG announces according to § 93 Section 2 Börsegesetz that it has been informed by Prudential plc, London, on 11 February 2011 of an increase of its stake and voting rights in AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG.
With a strong third quarter, AGRANA, the sugar, starch and fruit group, continued its positive performance of the current financial year. Revenue in the first three quarters (ended 30 November 2010) grew by 5.8% from one year earlier, to € 1,624.4 million.