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"Reflect and act upon the tasks for today and tomorrow to protect the interests and legitimate concerns of our shareholders, customers, suppliers, staff and future generations."

Südzucker is Europe's leading supplier of sugar products. The company has established a key market position in the special products segment. Südzucker Group's core competencies ideally satisfy the needs of these growth markets and are the reason for its success.

A particular strength is our many years of experience with sustainable production based on agricultural commodities. Sharply rising international demand for these goods confirms that Südzucker's strategy will enable it to succeed in the future. Südzucker Group relies on its close cooperation with the agricultural industry, the source of its commodities, its broad agricultural commodity processing related production expertise and its marketing experience, particularly in industrial markets. A foundation for customized value added chains has been laid, together with in-house research expertise and an excellent infrastructure.

The terms of our strategic goal are broad. We want to work on shaping the future with our partners in a responsible manner, based on a vision of sustainable profitable growth and long-term improvement in shareholder value. To achieve this, we will penetrate new profitable business areas along the value-added chain in addition to conducting our traditional core business, a process we have already started. This can be accomplished through organic growth, alliances and acquisitions. Exceptional motivation combined with recognition of excellent performance will help us achieve our objective. We consider far-reaching structural changes, such as those we currently face in the sugar area, to be an opportunity for the group's evolution and market growth.

We know where we want to go. Our approach is to establish benchmarks in all our business areas.

Raw materials supplier as main shareholder

Südzucker's main shareholders are the sugar beet farmers, via Süddeutsche Zuckerrübenverwertungs-Genossenschaft eG (SZVG), holding 55 % of the share capital.