KTG Agrar grows as an SE in Europe and stays regional

- First agricultural company to adopt European Company (SE) status
- Sustainable growth strategy to be continued

Hamburg, 6 November 2013 - KTG Agrar (ISIN: DE000A0DN1J4) cultivates some 40,000 hectares of farmland - about half of it organically - in the heart of Europe and supplies food to 22 countries. Quite fittingly, the company has now adopted the status of a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE), as decided by the Annual General Meeting on 23 August 2013. The proven two-tier administrative structure, with the Management Board serving as a controlling body and the Supervisory Board as a supervising body, will be retained. On the occasion of the conversion, the Supervisory Board has been reshuffled and is now composed of Henning von Reden, Chairman, as well as Prof. Dr. Julian Voss and Beatrice Ams. KTG Agrar SE will remain registered in Hamburg.

As a European Company, KTG Agrar will continue its sustainable growth strategy and remain rooted in the individual regions, with the main focus on the cultivation and processing of food crops 'from the field to the plate'. 'As a farming business in the heart of Europe, we offer consumers high-quality regional food products from a single source,' says Siegfried Hofreiter, CEO of KTG Agrar SE. 'Over the past years, we have invested some 25 million euros in building up the food segment and created jobs in rural areas. Over 800 employees make the KTG Group an important employer in East Germany.' Besides the newly built fresh produce facility in Linthe near Berlin, acquisitions such as Ölmühle Anklam, Frenzel Tiefkühlkost and Bio-Zentrale have added to KTG Agrar's strength. 'We now have modern production facilities and strong brands to offer consumers high-quality products from the region.' KTG Agrar wants to grow its Food segment to over EUR 100 million in revenues over the next to three years and also expects its other business segments to continue their growth.

About KTG Agrar
With cultivable land of more than 39,000 hectares, KTG Agrar AG (ISIN: DE000A0DN1J4) is one of the leading producers of agricultural commodities in Europe. As an integrated supplier, the company produces agricultural commodities and renewable energy and food. The Hamburg-based company's core area of expertise is the organic and traditional cultivation of market products such as cereals, maize and rapeseed. For organic market products KTG Agrar is the European market leader. The company mainly produces in Germany but has also operated production in the EU member state of Lithuania since 2005. As a result of the takeover of Frenzel Tiefkühlkost and Biozentrale Naturprodukte, KTG has expanded the value chain by the production of food. In the year 2012, KTG achieved a total output of EUR 168 million and EBIT of EUR 29.5 million. Since November 2007 the company is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and had 591 employees at year end 2012. Further information can be found at www.ktg-agrar.de.

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