The investment of € 26.1 million in the Fruit segment (prior year: € 30.6 million) was directed to maintenance work on the production facilities for fruit juice preparations and to the addition of a production line for bake-stable fruit preparations in the USA. In addition to the expansion of the freezer warehouse in Argentina, in the fourth quarter of 2009|10 the transfer began of a production line from the closed facility in the Czech Republic. The Russian site in Serpuchov was enlarged in the 2009|10 financial year by installing its fifth production line. As part of the complete SAP roll-out across AGRANA Fruit, the facilities in Mexico and Poland implemented the system; the programme is being continued at further AGRANA Fruit locations in the subsequent financial year. At AGRANA Juice, the investment primarily addressed efficiency improvement measures on the manufacturing side.
