Europe

China: consequences of the Syngenta acquisition

Europe Switzerland

17.05.2016 Editor

With the aquisition of Swiss GMO company Syngenta China puts genetically modified food on menu. But a majority of Chinese consumers don´t want it.

Exclusive organic distribution agreement for the U.S. Market

Europe Switzerland

11.05.2016 Editor

Organto Foods Inc. has joined forces with Fairtrasa, a Swiss based, leading producer of organic, fair trade products from small-scale farmers in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and the Dominican Republic.

GAIA expands organic supermarket chain in Switzerland

Europe Switzerland

10.11.2015 Kai Kreuzer

The first organic supermarket with the Greek name GAIA (Mother Earth) begins the roll-out across the whole of Switzerland. The flagship store is located in a busy street three kilometres north-west of downtown Zurich.

Organics increasing in Switzerland

Europe Switzerland

07.05.2015

5,979 producers were working according to the guidelines of Bio Suisse in 2014 – a plus of 95 on 2013.

Organic growth continues on the global level

Europe Switzerland

24.02.2015

The latest global data on organic farming has been presented by IFOAM – Organics International and the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) at the BioFach fair 2015 in Nuremberg. The global organic market increased to 72 billion US Dollars, organic agricultural land worldwide is 43 million hectares.

Organic market in Switzerland – remarkable growth in recent years

Europe Switzerland

15.05.2014 Redaktion
Bio Suisse has published key data on organics

Nearly two million organic farmers worldwide

Europe Switzerland

02.04.2014 Redaktion

Venue Vivaness: Natural cosmetics driving innovation and growth

Europe Switzerland

07.01.2014 Redaktion
The markets for natural cosmetics at international level have recorded stable growth rates for years and prospects for the coming years are brilliant.

Switzerland: Migros takes Alnatura as specialist store concept

Europe Switzerland

18.10.2012 Redaktion
The first 460 m² specialist organic store sill represents a trial run for the number one in the food trade in Switzerland.

Alnatura enters the market in Switzerland: what has the industry got to say?

Europe Switzerland

23.04.2012 Redaktion

Alnatura will open organic supermarkets in Switzerland

Switzerland: wholefood trade under pressure

Europe Switzerland

24.11.2011 Redaktion
A conference on the future of the specialist wholefood trade in Switzerland was held near Zurich

The Bio-Hotel Balance in Wallis

Europe Switzerland

21.07.2010 Redaktion
Hotel Balance has been a member of the Bio-Hotels group since 2003

Juice specialist Biotta in 40 countries

Europe Switzerland

02.12.2008 Redaktion
For over half a century Biotta has been producing organic juices

Kennel supplies herbs from the Swiss Alps

Europe Switzerland

05.02.2008 Redaktion

Kennel AG was the first tea company in Switzerland to pay serious attention to organic cultivation.

Switzerland: Egli plans expansion in top locations

Europe Switzerland

15.01.2008 Redaktion
Egli is a health food company with a long tradition and a changing number of stores.

Expansion of natural cosmetics in Switzerland

Europe Switzerland

04.12.2007 Redaktion

The name Vatter is well known in the wholefood scene in Switzerland.

Consolidation of the Swiss Organic Market

Europe Switzerland

12.04.2007 Redaktion

In Switzerland too the organic market is steaming ahead once again.

Personalities open Yardo Cookery Studio

Europe Switzerland

30.05.2006 Redaktion

The organic supermarket Yardo opened the first organic cookery studio in Switzerland in April 2006.

At last “Everything Organic”: Yardo opens in St. Gallen

Europe Switzerland

09.02.2006 Redaktion

The first Yardo “super Biomarkt” (organic supermarket) in Switzerland opened its doors in the centre of St. Gallen on Thursday 26 January 2006.

Naturaline becoming the best organic cotton marketing in the world

Europe Switzerland

26.01.2006 Redaktion
Accounting for approximately 1000 t of organic cotton every year, the Coop is (according to its own figures) the biggest buyer in the world.

Switzerland: Wholesale in transition

Europe Switzerland

23.01.2006 Redaktion
At the beginning of the 90s in Switzerland (7.4 million inhabitants) there were approximately a dozen organic food wholesalers.

The Coop as the driving force behind organic marketing

Europe Switzerland

23.01.2006 Redaktion
Since the beginning of the nineties, Coop Switzerland has been playing a bigger and bigger role in marketing organic products.