DGAP-Ad-hoc: BayWa AG: Austrian shareholders bundle shareholdings in BayWa AG – planned increase of stake to over 25 percent

BayWa AG / Letter of Intent

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Leipnik-Lundenburger Invest Beteiligungs AG (LLI AG) and RWA Raiffeisen
Ware Austria Handels und Vermögensverwaltung reg. Gen.m.b.H (RWA Gen) have
today communicated their intention to the Board of Management of BayWa AG,
to bundle their shares totaling 21.42 percent in BayWa AG, which are held
through St. Wolfgang Beteiligung GmbH and RWA Deutschland GmbH, into a
joint holding company, Raiffeisen Agrar Invest GmbH, with headquarters in
Vienna, subject to anti-trust approval.

The plan is also to increase the stake held by Raiffeisen Agrar Invest GmbH
to a shareholding slightly above 25 percent. With the bundling and increase
in the stake in BayWa AG, LLI AG and RWA Gen intend to intensify their
strategic cooperation with BayWa AG.



BayWa Aktiengesellschaft, Arabellastraße 4, 81925 Munich, www.baywa.de
WKN 519406 // ISIN DE0005194062;  WKN 519400 // 
ISIN DE0005194005


Contact:
Lothar Schönberger, Tel. +49-89-9222-3692, E-Mail:
lothar.schoenberger@baywa.de


18.09.2008  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, DE0005194005, 
WKN:          519406, 519400, 
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart
 
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