Marel Food Systems hf. - Total number of voting rights and capital

Marel's private placement successfully concluded

The Board of Directors of Marel Food Systems hf. (Marel) decided to accept
offers totalling EUR 38 million, equivalent to ISK 7 billion, in a successful
private placement of new shares to professional investors, which concluded
today. The target increase in share capital for the Offering was 15% but
subscriptions for a total of 111,136,497 shares were received, equivalent to an
18% increase. The Board of Directors decided to accept all subscriptions, which
were from Icelandic pension funds and international and Icelandic professional
investors. 

Theo Hoen, CEO of Marel:
“I am pleased with the good participation of international and Icelandic
investors in Marel's share Offering. The Offering has further strengthened the
company's capital structure. Ahead is a period of organic growth and harvesting
following a successful period of external growth in recent years. We will now
focus on improving profitability and achieving the operational efficiency that
the integration of Marel and Stork offers.” 

The price per share, as determined by the Board, was ISK 63. With the Offering,
Marel has liquidated 61.8% of the bond class MARL 06 1 and 17.6% of bond class
MARL 09 1. 

At the conclusion of the Offering, the company's Board of Directors decided to
increase the company's share capital by 111,136,497 shares, representing an
increase of 18%. The total share capital of Marel Food Systems will be
727,136,497 shares. The purchase price of the new shares is to be paid on
Wednesday, 2 December 2009. Marel will request that the new shares be admitted
for trading on NASDAQ OMX Iceland no later than Wednesday, 9 December 2009. 

Arion Bank, Islandsbanki and Landsbankinn were the Joint Lead Arrangers of the
Offering, the purpose of which was to further strengthen Marel's capital
structure, decrease currency risk and lower overall cost of funding. 

For further information, please contact: 
- Sigsteinn P. Gretarsson, member of the Management Board of Marel, tel: +354
563-8072 
- Steingrimur Helgason, Head of Corporate Finance at Landsbankinn, tel: +354
410-7349 
- Arnar Ragnarsson, Head of Corporate Advisory at Arion Bank, tel: +354
444-6802 
- Halla Hjartardottir, Head of Corporate Finance at Islandsbanki, tel: +354
440-4532 


About Marel
Marel is the leading global provider of advanced equipment and systems for the
fish, meat and chicken processing industry. The company employs more than 3,500
people worldwide, and has offices and subsidiaries in over 30 countries, as
well as a global network of 60 agents and distributors.