13 Jul 2017 --- Agrana has kicked off the 2017/18 financial year with a strong rise in EBIT. The group’s revenue increased slightly to €684.2 million in the first quarter ended 31 May 2017, up 2.8 percent from the first three months of the prior year. EBIT, at €69.8 million, was up by a compelling 48.5 percent from the year-earlier quarter. The growth in the group’s EBIT was driven especially by the very positive ethanol price trend in the starch segment, but also by better earnings in the sugar segment. In the fruit segment as well, EBIT exceeded the year-ago level.