DGAP-Ad-hoc: BayWa AG:Klaus Josef Lutz appointed successor to BayWa’s CEO Wolfgang Deml

BayWa AG / Change of Personnel

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Klaus Josef Lutz appointed successor to BayWa’s CEO Wolfgang Deml

Munich, 3 March 2008 – Klaus Josef Lutz is to take over as the BayWa
Group’s CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management. Today, Monday, the
Supervisory Board appointed him as the successor of Wolfgang Deml who is to
go into retirement having reached the age of 63.

Munich-born Lutz (49), attorney at law, was Chief Executive Officer of the
Süddeutscher Verlag GmbH in the period from 2002 to 2008. During his term
of office, the Munich-based newspaper publishing company was successfully
restructured. Prior to this period, Lutz gathered leadership experience, as
a Board member as well as Chairman of the Board and CEO.

For two decades, Wolfgang Deml headed the BayWa Group, a trading and
services company based in Munich with sales of EUR 7 billion and 16,000
employees and a market leader in Europe and in the German-speaking
countries .


BayWa Aktiengesellschaft, Arabellastraße 4, D-81925 München, www.baywa.de
Securities code no. 519406 // ISIN DE0005194062; Securities code no. 519400
// ISIN DE0005194005


Contact:
Lothar Schönberger, Tel. 089/9222-3692, E-Mail:
lothar.schoenberger@baywa.de


03.03.2008  Financial News transmitted by DGAP
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Language:     English
Issuer:       BayWa AG
              Arabellastraße 4
              81925 München
              Deutschland
Phone:        089/ 9222-3692
Fax:          089/ 9222-3698
E-mail:       presse@baywa.de
Internet:     www.baywa.de
ISIN:         DE0005194062
WKN:          519406
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart
 
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