AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an industrial processor of agricultural raw materials in Austria, Hungary, Romania, rest of Europe, and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Fruit, Starch, and Sugar. The Fruit segment designs, produces, and sells fruit preparations and fruit juice concentrates for the dairy, bakery, ice cream, and food service industries. This segment also produces not-from-concentrate juices, fruit wines, beverage bases, and aromas. Its Starch segment processes and refines agricultural raw materials, such as corn, wheat, and potatoes into starch products that are used in the food and beverage, paper, textile, cosmetics, building materials, and other non-food industries. The Sugar segment processes sugar beets; refines raw cane sugar; and offers a range of granulated sugar and sugar specialty products, and fertilizers, as well as produces animal feedstuff. It also produces bioethanol for blending and betaine products. The company sells its products for use in sweets, non-alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceutical applications; and to consumers through food retailers. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Vienna, Austria. AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft is a subsidiary of AGRANA Zucker, St?rke und Frucht Holding AG.