Bunge Limited Increases Quarterly Dividend on Common Shares and Declares Dividends on Preference Shares

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bunge Limited , an integrated, global agribusiness and food company, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a 11.8% increase in the company's regular quarterly cash dividend, from $0.17 to $0.19 per common share. The new dividend is payable on September 3, 2008 to shareholders of record on August 15, 2008.

The company also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.21875 per share on its 4.875% cumulative convertible perpetual preference shares, payable on September 1, 2008 to shareholders of record on August 15, 2008.

The company also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $12.8125 per share on its 5.125% cumulative mandatory convertible preference shares, payable on September 1, 2008 to shareholders of record on August 15, 2008.

About Bunge Limited

Bunge Limited (http://www.bunge.com/) is a leading global agribusiness and food company founded in 1818 and headquartered in White Plains, New York. Bunge's 25,000 employees in over 30 countries enhance lives by improving the global agribusiness and food production chain. The company supplies fertilizer to farmers in South America, originates, transports and processes oilseeds, grains and other agricultural commodities worldwide, produces food products for commercial customers and consumers, and supplies raw materials and services to the biofuels industry.

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