Zurich / Switzerland, 11 January 2012
 
ARYZTA AG ("ARYZTA") announces that, following a placing arranged overnight and this morning with a limited number of institutional investors, it has raised gross proceeds of CHF 174,341,799 through a placing of 4,252,239 new shares at an issue price of CHF 41.00 per share. The new shares will be fully fungible with ARYZTA's existing shares and entitled to the dividend for the financial year 2011.
 
The placing is scheduled to settle on 17 January 2012. The first trading day of the new shares on SIX Swiss Exchange is expected to be 16 January 2012. Their listing on ISE Irish Stock Exchange will be arranged in due course.

The number of shares in issue in ARYZTA following completion of the placing will increase from 87,558,295 shares (83,785,436 shares excluding treasury shares) to 91,810,534 shares (88,037,675 shares excluding treasury shares).
 
The placing was arranged by UBS AG acting as Sole Bookrunner. Zürcher Kantonalbank acted as Placement Agent.