Agrana

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AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG

logo
legal form Corporation
ISIN AT000AGRANA3
founding 1988
Seat AustriaAustria Austria , Vienna
management Johann Marihart (CEO)

Stephan Büttner
Fritz Gattermayer
Thomas Kölbl
Norbert Harringer

Number of employees 9,389 (2019/20)
sales 2.5 billion euros (2019/20)
Branch Food and industrial goods
Website www.agrana.com
Status: February 29, 2020

The Agrana Beteiligungs-AG (proper spelling AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG) is an Austrian food and industrial goods group based in Vienna . Agrana produces fruit preparations and fruit juice concentrates, starch and bioethanol as well as sugar . The products are mainly sold to the processing industry. In the end consumer business, Agrana is particularly well known for its “Wiener Zucker” brand.

history

Agrana was founded in 1988 as an umbrella company for the Austrian sugar and starch industry. It initially operated three sugar factories ( Tulln , Leopoldsdorf , Hohenau until 2006), a potato starch factory in Gmünd and a corn starch factory in Aschach .

The history of the company's individual production sites goes back further: The one in Leopoldsdorf was founded in 1901 and 1902 to produce raw sugar and converted into a white sugar factory in 1925; the production site in Tulln was built in 1937. In 1974 the company received the state award and has been allowed to use the federal coat of arms in business transactions ever since .

After participating in Hungarian sugar and starch factories in 1990, the company went public on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 1991 . Further participations in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Austria followed.

Between 2003 and 2005, Agrana bought several companies in the fruit processing and juice concentrates industries (Steirerobst AG, Vallosaft, Wink, Atys) and thus built up a new business area. The reasons for this further diversification were growth limits stipulated by antitrust law and the change in the European sugar market regime.

Today Agrana operates ten sugar and five starch factories in Central Europe as well as more than 40 production sites in the fruit division around the world.

Shareholders

The owner of Agrana is 78.34% of the share capital by Z&S Zucker und Starke Holding AG (Z&S), Vienna. The remaining shares in Agrana are held by Südzucker AG (2.74%) or are in free float (18.92%).

Z&S is a 100% subsidiary of Agrana Sugar, Strength and Fruit Holding AG, Vienna , in which Südzucker AG (Germany) and Zucker-Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (ZBG), Vienna, each hold 50%. In turn, the following are involved in ZBG: Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien reg. Gene. mbH with 78.31%, Marchfelder Zuckerfabriken GesmbH (a 100% subsidiary of Raiffeisen-Holding), Estezet Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (also a 100% subsidiary of Raiffeisen-Holding), beet producer Beteiligungs GesmbH (partner: over 9,000 Austrian sugar beet growers) and Leipnik-Lundenburger Invest Beteiligungs AG (main owners are Raiffeisen-Holding with 46.48% and Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich), all based in Vienna.

Locations (exc.)

Fruit ... fruit preparation plant

Agrana Research & Innovation Center

ARIC logo The Agrana Research & Innovation Center  GmbH (ARIC) is the research and development company Agrana in the areas of strength , bioethanol , sugar and fruit . ARIC is organized as an independent company in Agrana and is a 100% subsidiary of Agrana Beteiligungs-AG (AB), is located directly next to the Tulln sugar factory and is an active member of Technopol Tulln , a competence center for agricultural and environmental biotechnology in Lower Austria .

The Agrana Research & Innovation Center with around 60 employees is the central research and development center for the Agrana Group. It is also active nationally and internationally as a service provider in the field of research and development in many industries. The focus of activity is on the provision, processing and application of agricultural products both in the food sector and in the field of renewable raw materials for technical purposes.

Brands

Wiener Zucker brand sugar

In Austria, sugar has been sold under the Wiener Zucker brand since 1987 , and until 1994 also under the natural sugar brand . The Wiener Zucker logo was registered in 2000. Different brand names are used in other countries, e.g. E.g. in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary the national language equivalents of Kronen Zucker .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Board of Directors ( Memento from June 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Agrana Beteiligungs AG: Annual Report 2019/20. (PDF; 2 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 12, 2018 ; accessed on July 6, 2020 (for the financial year from March 1, 2019 to February 29, 2020).
  3. ↑ Web presence of Agrana Beteiligungs-AG - Sugar factories in Austria  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.agrana.at  
  4. ↑ Agrana opens new fruit preparation plant in Lysander, New York ( Memento of May 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ Agrana takes over plant in India orf.at, May 11, 2017, accessed May 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ www.agrana-research.at
  7. ^ Wiener Zucker , accessed on May 21, 2014.
  8. ↑ WIENER ZUCKER (2000) tmdb.de, accessed May 11, 2017. - Registration of the figurative mark August 31, 2001.
  9. ↑ The Wiener Zucker brand family ( Memento of April 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) www.agrana.com/ueber-agrana, accessed May 11, 2017.

Web links

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