EQS-News: Sugar beet growing: long-term agreement reached with beet growers ---- CEO Büttner: “Important step for sugar production in Austria”

EQS-News: AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft / Key word(s): Alliance
   Sugar beet growing: long-term agreement reached with beet growers ---- CEO
   Büttner: “Important step for sugar production in Austria”

   03.12.2025 / 12:56 CET/CEST
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   Sugar beet growing: long-term agreement reached with beet growers

   CEO Büttner: “Important step for sugar production in Austria”

    

   AGRANA has reached an agreement with the sugar beet grower’s association
   (Rübenbauernverbund) on the growing terms and conditions for the coming
   three years. This agreement comes against the backdrop of a challenging
   market environment characterised by consistently low sugar sales prices.
   As a result of constructive negotiations with the sugar beet growers’
   lobbying association, it has been possible to develop a new pricing model
   which takes the prevailing circumstances into account.

   “The agreement reached is an important step toward safeguarding the sugar
   production site in Austria and makes a significant contribution to
   planning certainty for farmers and AGRANA. The outcome of the negotiations
   is also an investment in continuing trust-based collaboration with the
   beet growers. In future, AGRANA will continue to be a reliable buyer of
   their crops and remain an important, dependable partner to trading and
   industrial players.” highlights AGRANA CEO Stephan Büttner.

   The plan is to start the contracting round for the spring 2026 growing
   season at the beginning of the coming year.

    

   Sugar beet campaign: 95 percent of all sugar beet harvested

   The sugar mill in Tulln started its sugar beet processing campaign in
   early September and this is proceeding very satisfactorily. Up to 14,000
   metric tons of sugar beet are being processed at the mill daily. Following
   the very favourable weather conditions in 2025, both the yield per
   hectare, at 78 metric tons, and the sugar content, about 17 percent, are
   in line with long-term averages. Around 95 percent of the sugar beet had
   been processed by the end of November. Based on the current status, the
   processing campaign will be concluded at the end of January.

    

   About AGRANA

   AGRANA converts agricultural raw materials into high-quality foods and
   numerous industrial intermediate products. With around 9,000 employees,
   the two business areas Food & Beverage Solutions and Agricultural
   Commodities & Specialities generate annual Group revenue of approximately
   € 3.5 billion at 50 production sites worldwide. Established in 1988, the
   company is the global market leader in fruit preparations and the world’s
   leading producer (and supplier) of apple juice concentrates and berry
   juice concentrates. AGRANA is the leading sugar company in Central and
   Eastern Europe and a major producer of customised potato, corn and wheat
   starch products as well as of bioethanol.

   For queries, please contact:

   Markus Simak, Public Relations, +43 1 21137
   12084, [1]markus.simak@agrana.com

   Hannes Haider, Investor Relations, +43 1 21137
   12905, [2]hannes.haider@agrana.com

   This announcement is available in German and English at [3]www.agrana.com.

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