Appointment of chairman ASTRAL FOODS LIMITED “Astral Foods” (Reg. No. 1978/003194/06) (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) Share Code: ARL ISIN Code: ZAE000029757 APPOINTMENT OF CHAIRMAN Further to the announcement on 27 March 2014 of the retirement of Mr. J J (Jurie) Geldenhuys as chairman of the board of Astral Foods, the board has appointed Dr. Theuns Eloff as the new chairman with effect from 1 June 2014. Dr. Eloff (59), until recently the Vice-Chancellor of North- West University, completed his studies at Potchefstroom University (now North-West University). He started his career as a minister of religion in Pretoria and left the ministry in 1989 to join the Consultative Business Movement (CBM), where he was appointed as Executive Director in 1990. During his time with CBM he was seconded to both CODESA (1991-2) as Head of Process and Secretariat Services, and the Multi-Party Negotiations Process (1993) where he was Head of Administration, until the negotiated Interim Constitution was adopted. In 1995 Dr. Eloff was appointed as Chief Executive of the National Business Initiative. He served on the Economic Advisory Council of the North-West Province, the Board of Business Against Crime and the Board of the Centre for Conflict Resolution. In 2002 he became Vice-Chancellor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. In 2004 he was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the newly merged North-West University. He is past deputy chairman and chairman of Higher Education South Africa (HESA) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). He also served as vice- president and president of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut (AHI) from 2009 to 2012. Dr. Eloff has been an independent non-executive director on the board of Astral Foods since May 2007, and during this time served on the Audit and Risk Management Committee and chaired the Social and Ethics Committee. He is also the chairman of the Dagbreek Trust, deputy chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation, and will join the board of Open Learning Holdings on 1 July. Pretoria 22 May 2014 Sponsor J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa (Pty) Ltd Date: 22/05/2014 09:00:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.