VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG: Annual Shareholders' Meeting 2011- large majority for all proposed resolutions

VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG / Key word(s): AGM/EGM

27.06.2011 / 15:09

* Dr Georg Pollert voted onto Supervisory Board
* Approval of Management Board remuneration system


Leipzig/Zörbig, 27 June 2011 - At the Annual Shareholders' Meeting of
VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG held on Friday 24 June 2011, the approx. 80
shareholders and shareholder representatives present passed all agenda
items by a large majority. The attendance rate was 79.4% of the share
capital.

A new Supervisory Board was elected. Alexander von Witzleben remains
Supervisory Board Chairman, and Ulrike Krämer was appointed as his deputy.
Dr Georg Pollert, a former director of the company and a major shareholder,
was voted onto the Supervisory Board.

The company also took the opportunity to have the new remuneration system
for the Management Board approved by the Annual Shareholders' Meeting. In
particular, this was expressly welcomed by the shareholder representatives.

The individual voting results as well as the CEO's speech and presentation
are available at www.verbio.de -> Investor Relations -> Annual
Shareholders' Meeting.


About VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG (VERBIO)
VERBIO is one of the leading independent producers and suppliers of
biofuels and also the only industrial-scale producer of biodiesel,
bioethanol and biogas in Europe. Nominal capacity currently amounts to
around 450,000 tons of biodiesel, 300,000 tons of bioethanol and 500
gigawatt hours of biogas per year. In the production of its highly
efficient fuels, the company uses its own energy-saving production
processes and innovative technologies. The biofuels produced by VERBIO
achieve CO2 reductions of up to 90% compared with petrol and diesel. VERBIO
supplies its products directly to European mineral oil corporations,
mineral oil traders, independent petrol stations, haulage companies, public
utilities and vehicle fleets. VERBIO AG also markets high-quality pharma
glycerine for the consumer goods and cosmetic industries (glycerine is a
by-product of biodiesel production). VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG acts
as the management holding company within the Group. The Group's operating
business is run by its subsidiaries VERBIO Diesel Bitterfeld GmbH & Co. KG,
VERBIO Diesel Schwedt GmbH & Co. KG, VERBIO Ethanol Schwedt GmbH & Co. KG,
VERBIO Ethanol Zörbig GmbH & Co. KG and Märka GmbH. VERBIO shares (ISIN
DE000A0JL9W6 / WKN A0JL9W) have been listed on the Prime Standard of the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange since October 2006.


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Language:    English                                                
Company:     VERBIO Vereinigte BioEnergie AG                        
             Augustusplatz 9                                        
             04109 Leipzig                                          
             Deutschland                                            
Phone:       +49 (0)341 30 85 30 90                                 
Fax:         +49 (0)341 30 85 30 98                                 
E-mail:      ir@verbio.de                                           
Internet:    www.verbio.de                                          
ISIN:        DE000A0JL9W6                                           
WKN:         A0JL9W                                                 
Listed:      Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);       
             Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart  
 
 
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