Bunge Limited Declares Dividends on Common and Preference Shares

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bunge Limited (NYSE:BG), an integrated, global agribusiness and food company, today declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.17 per share of common stock. The dividend is payable on June 2, 2008 to shareholders of record on May 19, 2008.

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

About Bunge Limited

Bunge Limited (www.Bunge.com) is a leading global agribusiness and food company founded in 1818 and headquartered in White Plains, New York. Bunge's over 22,000 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.

FCMN Contact: stewart.lindsay@bunge.com


Source: Bunge Limited

CONTACT: Media Contact: Stewart Lindsay, +1-914-684-3369,
Stewart.Lindsay@Bunge.com, Investor Contact: Mark Haden, +1-914-684-3398,
Mark.Haden@Bunge.com, both of Bunge Limited

Web site: http://www.bunge.com/


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