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Switzerland: Organic sales of vegetables, fruit and milk increase significantly
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15.11.2018 Leo FrühschützFrom September 2017 to August 2018, customers bought 7 percent more organic vegetables in Swiss retail outlets than in the same period last year. Sales of fruit and milk increased as well.
Germany: Microplastic in food worries consumers
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26.10.2018 Leo Frühschütz83% of German consumers are familiar with the topic of microplastics in food and 56% of them are therefore worried. The BfR determined this in its current consumer monitor.
Study analyses the German organic poultry market
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11.10.2018 Leo FrühschützMarket share, price and distribution channels: The German association Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (AMI) has published a study on the German organic poultry market.
Switzerland: Organic consumption has doubled in ten years
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20.09.2018 Leo FrühschützIn 2017, organic products worth 2.7 bn Swiss francs were sold in Switzerland. According to the Federal Office for Agriculture, organic food sales now account for 9% of total food sales.
Italy: Organic sector shows impressive growth
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28.08.2018Data collected by Nielsen confirm a positive trend in the Italian organic market. The numbers presented at the shareholders' meeting of AssoBio, show that organic food sales within large-scale retail exceeded 1.5 bn euros.
Spain: Double-digit growth of the organic market
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24.07.2018With more than two million hectares Spain has for the first time taken the lead in Europe concerning certified organic land. This is one of the results of a new report by the organic consultancy EcoLogical. The organic market is developing well, the main reasons being increasing demand, better availability and investment on the part of producers. The report has been compiled from a number of sources and provides data on the current situation in the Spanish organic sector.
Spain: Impressive growth in the organic sector
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10.07.2018 EditorEcoLogical, an independent consultancy for organic businesses in Spain, has published the ‘Organic Sector in Spain 2018’. This report gathers the most up-to-date information about national and international public bodies and contains original studies about the Spanish organic sector.
Switzerland: market grew to 2.25 billion euro
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05.07.2018 EditorThe Federal Office for Agriculture published the statistics 2017 for organic food. One in ten fresh food items sold in Switzerland last year was organic.
Germany: 1.4 million hectares organic land
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05.07.2018 EditorThe figures published by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture confirm that many German farmers switched to organic farming in 2017. This is an opportunity for policymakers to achieve important sustainability goals, says the organisaton BÖLW.
OTA: US organic market worth $49.4 bn
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05.06.2018 EditorRecently, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) released its annual Organic Industry Survey 2017. As the study shows, the number of organic products purchased in the USA increased again – up to 6.4% within last year. Further, the OTA revealed that the American organic market is growing six times as fast as the market as a whole.
Ukraine: organic porridge record
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31.05.2018 EditorAt the largest agricultural exhibition of Eastern Europe, Agroport West Lviv 2018, held in the Ukraine, a new record was set.The biggest amount of cereal porridge was cooked from the certified organic products only.
UK: Defra released organic farming statistics for 2017
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29.05.2018 EditorData compiled by approved organic certification bodies are the basis for the organic farming statistics 2017. It presents estimates of the land area farmed organically, crop areas, livestock numbers and numbers of organic producers and processors in the United Kingdom.
Fairtrade: German GEPA looks back to a positive year 2017
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24.05.2018 EditorThe German fair trade pioneer GEPA continued its stable development in 2017 with wholesale sales of 72.4 million euros (minus 1.9 %). Consumers bought the company's products for around 114 million euros (sales at retail prices).
Germany: Glyphosate debate takes effect
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17.05.2018 Leo FrühschützThree quarters of all Germans have heard of the topic "Glyphosate in food", according to the Consumer Monitor 2/2018 of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) an increase of 14% to 2017.
Denmark generates organic record growth in 2017
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10.05.2018 EditorNew figures from Statistic Denmark show that the sale of organic food and drink has increased with 31% from 2016 to 2017. The organic market share of the total Danish food sale has now reached 13.3 %.
German organic market: Whole food shops back on course for growth
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01.05.2018 EditorThe first three months of 2018 are the second consecutive quarter of positive sales developments on the German organic market: On a like-for-like basis, the average daily turnover of the companies surveyed for the turnover barometer rose by 10.3%.
Germany: Around 25% of market launches were organic in 2017
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12.04.2018 EditorOne quarter of all food and beverage products introduced in Germany in 2017 were organic. Furthermore, almost three quarters of consumers wish for an even greater choice of organic food and beverages at their place of purchase. This is what Mintel Global New Products Database (GNPD) has found out.
Germany: more organic products in discounters
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29.03.2018 EditorAccording to GfK market research, 95 per cent of all households bought at least one organic product in 2017. Discounter Aldi expanded its organic range over the years and has set itself ambitious sales targets in the organic segment for the coming years.
France: Record organic area and turnover
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28.03.2018 EditorWith an increase of 15% over the previous year, France's organic land area grew to 1.77 million hectares. Sales rose to 8 billion euros. This is recently estimated by the organisation Agence Bio.
GOTS certified facilities increase 8,2% in 2017
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15.03.2018 EditorThe number of facilities certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard GOTS shows an increase of 8,2% to 5,024 facilities in 2017. GOTS certified facilities are located in 62 countries around the world.
Weleda: 4.2% increase in sales worldwide
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15.03.2018 EditorLast year, Weleda AG increased its total sales by 2.8 percent and achieved sales of more than 400 million euros for the first time.
China´s organic market growth and 12th BioFach in Shanghai
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13.03.2018 EditorThe Chinese organic market is the 4th biggest worldwide. This year the 12th edition of BioFach China will be held from May 24 to 26, 2018 at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center.
Swedish organic sales increased by 9.3 % in 2017
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13.03.2018The total food market was valued at approximately SEK 300 billion (€30 billion) in 2017, including retail, Foodservice and Systembolaget. According to Statistics Sweden, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), food prices rose by about 2 percent in 2017. Ekoweb has summarized the preliminary sales figures for the organic food market for 2017 which shows that organic food sales increased by 9.3 percent in 2017.
BioFach 2018: Trends, new products and the „Next Generation“
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06.03.2018 EditorThe demand for organic products in Germany continues unabated. However, in which areas is organic food booming particularly and what trends are to be expected in the near future? In a review of BioFach, we have summarised and discussed the role of the next generation in specialist trade as well as the question of how innovative products from young companies can find their way onto the shelves of specialist retailers. Please also watch our BioFach video review with many interviews on the topic of the next generation.
Germany: organic sales crack 10 billion euro barrier
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27.02.2018 EditorIn 2017, the organic sector achieved sales of over 10 billion euros for the first time. This was announced by Peter Röhrig, Managing Director of the Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft (BÖLW, Engl. Association Organic Food Industry), on the occasion of the annual press conference of the organic sector at the start of this year's BIOFACH in Nuremberg.
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