Lidl: Listing of Organic Products Began with Organic Campaign Day

02.05.2006

“We started on Thursday 20 April 2006 with a campaign day in preparation for listing 40 organic products to be sold all over the country,” is how Thomas Oberle, Lidl’s press spokesman, explains the dawning of a new era.

„Organic Marketing Forum“

02.05.2006 International Meeting on Processing and Marketing of Organic Food.

First NaturaSì Market in the South of Italy opened in Palermo / Sicily

28.04.2006 As NaturaSì reports, the opening of the first selling point of NaturaSì in Southern Italy was in Palermo on March 31 and April 1 2006.

Origin’o: Modernisation Concept For Outdated Wholefood Stores in Belgium

27.04.2006

Origin’o started up on 24 March 2006 with three existing shops and a new organic supermarket in Ghent in Belgium.

Organic consumers objects Wal-Marts plans

27.04.2006 Organic foods achieved a turnover of 15 billion Dollars in the United States.

„BioBenessere“- The Project Started in Europe

26.04.2006

As BioBenessere reports, they presented themselves in Nuremburg and Copenhagen to a broad and qualified audience of authorities, buyers, opinion leaders and journalists.

Organic Tomatoes: Increasing Quality and Taste by Reducing Irrigation

25.04.2006 Product quality and taste are important in the marketing of organic produce.

Ireland’s Organic Industry Must Grow!

24.04.2006

Modern specialist wholefood shops, or even organic supermarkets with a good proportion of fresh food, are thin on the ground in Ireland.

Euro Coop’s Position Paper on the Review of the European Regulation on Organic Farming

24.04.2006 The umbrella organisation of European Consumer Cooperatives took position
regarding the new EU Regulation und published this press release:

Transparency Is Just A Click Away

21.04.2006

“In 2004 we were preoccupied mainly with the growers; last year the priority was building contacts with trade and brand article partners; 2006 is for us the year of the consumer.”

Anheuser Bush brewery is introducing organic beer as a test run

21.04.2006

Anheuser-Busch, whose empire is built on Bud and Bud Light, is test-marketing its first organic beer in the North Bay, Santa Barbara and six other smallish cities in California.

Increasing imports of organic baby bananas from Ecuadar in EU and US

19.04.2006 A small banana variety from Ecuador is developing into an export product with potential.

EU commission ´admitted GM food uncertainty´

19.04.2006 The European commission has been approving genetically modified crops for human consumption while secretly warning about their impact on health and the environment, a report published recently reveals.

SuperBiomarkt Takes Over Supernatural Stores

18.04.2006

At the beginning of April, SuperBiomarkt AG (Munster) will suddenly get three new stores.

Freedom of Choice - Conference on GMOs in Vienna

17.04.2006 EU leaders stressed the need for more information and experience before further legislation can be passed on genetically-modified organisms, at the end of a conference on GMOs in Vienna.

Organic Food To Consumers Doors

14.04.2006 An organic fruit and veg doorstep delivery service from Richmond, UK is expanding into Cumbria.

Which Firms Sell Bio-Packaging?

13.04.2006

In the following, Bio-Market.Info would like to give its readers an overview of the different suppliers of plastic bags and tear-off bags made form compostable materials.