AGRANA resolves to acquire Raiffeisen Ware Austria (RWA) shares in AUSTRIA JUICE — TradingView News

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AGRANA resolves to acquire Raiffeisen Ware Austria (RWA) shares in AUSTRIA JUICE

30.05.2025 / 12:00 CET/CEST

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AGRANA resolves to acquire Raiffeisen Ware Austria (RWA) shares in AUSTRIA JUICE

AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG has handed a decision to acquire all of the shares held by RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria AG in AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH. In consequence, the shares in AUSTRIA JUICE GmbH (at present 50.01 % AGRANA and 49.99 % RWA) shall be absolutely acquired by AGRANA. Following the required selections reached by the Supervisory Board of AGRANA and the Annual Basic Assembly of RWA, AGRANA’s Administration Board has right now determined upon the acquisition of the shares held by RWA, topic to approval from the competent anti-trust and regulatory authorities. The acquisition worth quantities to € 54.7 million.

AUSTRIA Juice is among the many world’s main producers of apple juice and berry juice concentrates in addition to producing pure flavours, beverage bases and direct juices for the downstream beverage and meals processing business. The intensive product portfolio additionally contains all-in-one fruit wines and cider purposes. The corporate is predicated in Kröllendorf (Decrease Austria) and maintains 13 manufacturing websites in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and China. It employs a complete of round 1,000 personnel. Annual revenues quantity to roughly € 330 million and are absolutely consolidated by AGRANA.

“The complete acquisition of AUSTRIA JUICE is a vital step towards implementing our NEXT LEVEL group technique. In our newly created strategic Meals & Beverage Options division, we intention to strengthen the connection between AUSTRIA JUICE’s beverage bases and aroma enterprise and our fruit preparations line, whereas increasing each globally. As well as, the product portfolio and the present solution-oriented experience at AUSTRIA JUICE will give us a lift in phrases of tapping new markets, gross sales channels and buyer teams,” explains AGRANA CEO Stephan Büttner.

“The sale of our AUSTRIA JUICE shares to AGRANA is one other step towards specializing in our core enterprise at RWA. In a fast-changing market atmosphere, it is necessary to focus our efforts on our strengths in order to safeguard sustainable progress and cooperative added worth,” explains Johannes Schuster, CEO of RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria.

About AGRANA

AGRANA converts agricultural uncooked supplies into high-quality meals and quite a few industrial intermediate merchandise. Round 9,000 workers at 50 manufacturing amenities worldwide generate annual Group income of roughly € 3.5 billion. The Group was based in 1988, is the worldwide chief in fruit preparations and a number one participant worldwide in the manufacturing of apple and berry juice concentrates in addition to being a key producer of customised potato, corn and wheat starch merchandise in addition to natural ethanol in its Starch phase. AGRANA is among the main sugar firms in Central and Jap Europe.

About RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria

RWA is a producer, wholesaler and repair supplier working in the enterprise areas of agriculture, equipment, vitality, constructing supplies and residential & backyard. Because the umbrella organisation of the Austrian Lagerhaus cooperatives, RWA supplies a complete vary of providers in these enterprise areas. RWA additionally manages a variety of fairness investments and subsidiaries in Austria and in chosen Jap European international locations. 

For extra data:

AGRANA: Markus Simak, markus.simak@agrana.com, +43-1-21137-120-84

RWA: Stephanie Reimann, pr@rwa.at +43-2262-75550-3600

30.05.2025 CET/CEST This Company News was distributed by EQS Group. www.eqs.com