Agroton Public Limited Plans US$ Regulation S Eurobond Issue

Fitch and Standard & Poor's Assigned B- Rating Both to Agroton and the Issue

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Agroton Public Limited, one of the largest agricultural producers in Ukraine, announced it’s going to issue its debut US$ Regulation S Eurobond notes.

Agroton has appointed VTB Capital plc and Dragon Capital (Cyprus) Limited as the Joint Lead Managers and Jaspen Capital Partners as the Co-Lead Manager to manage its debut US$ Regulation S Eurobond issue.

The investor road-show is expected to commence on 10 May 2011.

The proceeds from the bonds will be used to redeem all existing bank debt of around USD21m, and to fund the construction of additional grain storage facilities, expansion of the Group’s existing land bank and acquisition of additional agricultural machinery as well as for general corporate purposes of the Group. Future cash from the bond proceeds will be deposited initially in Bank of Cyprus (BBB+/Negative Outlook) in USD.

Fitch Ratings has assigned Agroton Public Limited’s planned notes foreign-currency senior unsecured rating of ‘B-(exp)’ and an expected Recovery Rating of ‘RR4’. Agroton has Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) of 'B-' and a National Long-term of 'BBB(ukr)'. The Outlook on these ratings is stable.

Today, also Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its 'B-' long-term corporate credit rating to Agroton Public Ltd. The outlook is stable.

At the same time, Standard & Poor's assigned an issue rating of 'B-' to Agroton's proposed senior unsecured notes.

On Agroton Public Limited

The Agroton Group is one of the largest diversified vertically integrated agricultural producers in Ukraine. The Company’s core business is the cultivation, processing, storage and sale of grain, chiefly sunflower and wheat. The Company also handles production and sale of livestock as well as food production.

Since 2001 Agroton has tripled the size of its land bank, and it now manages 151,000 hectares of black earth (i.e., chernozem) land.

The Company operates storage facilities with a capacity of about 235,000 metric tonnes, which allows it to store its products for sale during the most favourable prices periods. The current capacity of Agroton’s grain elevators makes it the largest grain elevator operator in the Luhansk region.

With respect to production and sale of livestock, Agroton is the largest poultry producer in the Luhansk region, raising about 3 million chickens annually. The company also has about 4,500 head of dairy cows, making it the fifth-largest milk producer in Ukraine.

Agroton has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since November 2010.

More information at www.agroton.com.ua

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Contact:

Agroton Plc
Magda Kołodziejczyk
M+G – Press office of Agroton Plc in Poland
Tel. +48 22 625 71 40, 501 16 88 07
E-mail: magda.kolodziejczyk@mplusg.com.pl