PRESS RELEASE : Changes on AGRANA Management Board - reallocation of board responsibilities

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Vienna - The previously announced succession of CEO Johann Marihart by Markus 
Mühleisen on 1 June 2021 will also be accompanied by further changes on the 
Management Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG as well as in the general management 
teams of certain subsidiaries. 
 
After 16 years, Thomas Kölbl will be vacating his post on the Management Board 
of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG to focus fully on his CFO role at Südzucker AG. He 
will be succeeded on the AGRANA Management Board by Ingrid-Helen Arnold who has 
been a board member of Südzucker AG since 1 May 2021. She will be responsible 
for the area of internal auditing at AGRANA. 
 
In the course of the restructuring and rejuvenation of the AGRANA Management 
Board, Fritz Gattermayer has also decided after 12 years to step down from the 
AGRANA Management Board with effect from 31 May 2021. 
 
From 1 June 2021, the Management Board of AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG will therefore 
be made up of four members: 
 
 
* CEO Markus Mühleisen 
* CFO Stephan Büttner 
* CTO Norbert Harringer 
* Ingrid-Helen Arnold 
 
 
With effect from 1 June 2021, Markus Mühleisen will also be appointed to the 
Management Board of Südzucker AG, in Mannheim, Germany. 
 
In addition to his role as AGRANA CEO, Markus Mühleisen will also be responsible 
for areas such as sales and human resources as well as the Sugar Division. In 
connection with this function, he is also being appointed CEO of the Sugar 
Division to serve alongside Andreas Schröckenstein and Josef Eisenschenk. 
 
In addition to his tasks as CFO, Stephan Büttner will additionally be 
responsible for areas such as purchasing as well as the Fruit Division. In this 
function, he will act as the CEO of the Fruit Division and be responsible for 
finance and sales, serving alongside Benoit Biquet and Michael Frey. Jos 
Kleppers has decided to pursue his career beyond the AGRANA Group and will be 
stepping down from his role as CEO of the Fruit Division with effect from 30 
June 2021. 
 
In addition to his CTO tasks, Norbert Harringer will also be responsible for 
areas such as Raw Materials and R&D as well as assuming overall responsibility 
for the Starch Division. In this role, he will also act as the CEO of the Starch 
Division, acting alongside Leontine Wratschko and Horst Hartl. The long-serving 
CEO of the Starch Division, Josef Granner, has decided to step down from his 
general management position in the Starch Division with effect from 30 June 2021 
and to retire. 
 
These restructuring steps will streamline management at AGRANA, align the 
Management Board to operations and, as a result of the linkage between the 
AGRANA Management Board and the general management teams of the divisions, 
facilitate the leveraging of all synergies between the segments and the holding 
company. 
 
The implementation of the above plans will see the AGRANA Executive Team shrink 
from 20 to 13 members (Management Board members and general managers of the four 
divisions), which will lead to additional efficiency in addition to significant 
cost savings. 
 
We would like to express our sincerest thanks to all those vacating their 
positions and wish Mrs. Arnold and Misters Mühleisen, Büttner and Harringer 
every success for the future. 
 
Johann Marihart, Chief Executive Officer, AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG 
 
Erwin Hameseder, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
About AGRANA 
 
AGRANA converts agricultural raw materials into high-quality foods and numerous 
industrial intermediate products. About 9,000 employees at 56 production 
facilities worldwide generate annual Group revenue of around EUR 2.5 billion. 
The Group was founded in 1988, is the global leader in fruit preparations and 
also a major producer of fruit juice concentrates in Europe as well as being a 
key manufacturer of customised potato, corn and wheat starch products as well as 
organic ethanol in its Starch segment. AGRANA is one of the leading sugar 
companies in Central and Eastern Europe. 
 
This press release is available in German and English at www.agrana.com. 
 
 
 
Further inquiry note: 
AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG 
 
Mag.(FH) Hannes Haider 
Investor Relations 
Tel.: [phone] 
e-mail:[e-mail] 
 
 
Mag.(FH) Markus Simak 
Public Relations 
Tel.: [phone] 
e-mail: [e-mail] 
 
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