Südzucker AG: Südzucker with successful bond pricing

Mannheim (pta023/22.01.2025/17:40) - Südzucker AG successfully priced a EUR 500 million bond via its wholly-owned Dutch subsidiary Südzucker International Finance B.V. on 22 January 2025. Guaranteed by Südzucker AG, the senior bond has a maturity of seven years and a coupon of 4.125 percent. Following settlement the bond will be listed on the regulated market on Luxembourg stock exchange. It is also attractive to private investors due to its denomination of EUR 1,000 and will be tradable for them from 30 January 2025.

The proceeds from the issue will be used for general corporate purposes, including the refinancing of a bond due in November 2025.

The placement of the Euro bond was managed by Helaba, HSBC, ING, KBC and Rabobank.

Further details about the bond are available on Südzucker's homepage ( http://www.suedzuckergroup.com/en/investor-relations/bonds ).

Südzucker AG
Maximilianstraße 10
68165 Mannheim, Germany

Investor Relations:
Nikolai Baltruschat
Phone: +49 621 421-240
investor.relations@suedzucker.de

Financial Press:
Dr Dominik Risser
Phone: +49 621 421-205
public.relations@suedzucker.de

About the Südzucker Group

Südzucker is a major player in the food industry with its sugar, special products, starch and fruit segments, and Europe's leading ethanol producer with its CropEnergies segment.

In the traditional sugar business, the group is Europe's number one supplier of sugar products, with 23 sugar factories and two refineries, extending from France in the west via Belgium, Germany and Austria, through to Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bosnia, and Moldova in the east. The special products segment, with its consumer-oriented functional ingredients for food and animal feed (BENEO), chilled/frozen products (Freiberger) and portion packs (PortionPack Group), operates in dynamic growth markets. Südzucker's CropEnergies segment is Europe's leading producer of renewable ethanol, with production sites in Germany, Belgium, France and Great Britain. Other products in this segment are protein food and animal feed products as well as biogenic carbon dioxide. The starch segment comprises AGRANA's starch and ethanol activities. The group's fruit segment operates globally, is the world market leader for fruit preparations for dairies and is a leading supplier of fruit juice concentrates in Europe.

In 2023/24, the group employed about 19.200 persons and generated revenues of about EUR 10.3 billion.

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