Specialist organic magazines working together across Europe

The leading organic markets in the world are the US American market and the European market. For this reason, the exchange of information between individual European countries is becoming increasingly important. Dissemination of information has already been taking place via specialist organic publications, online magazines and newsletters in the different countries. Now, for the first time, a public meeting will be held at BioFach where various specialist magazines in Spain, Poland, Russia and Germany will be presented.

Karol Przybylak comes from an organic family in Poland. More than 25 years ago, his father founded the magazine for organic farming called Eko-Arka, and for the last ten years or so Karol and his sister have been working on the publication. A few years ago, Karol founded the Biokurier  with the aim of providing consumers with regular information about organic products. Biokurier is distributed via specialist wholefood stores and health food shops in a print version (32 pages) and via an internet portal (www.biokurier.pl).

Enric Urrutia has only recently become an organic publisher in Spain. Since April 2013 he has been publishing the magazine Bioeco Actual, that appears in Spanish and Catalan and has a total print-run of 35,000 copies. This monthly publication is also distributed to organic consumers via wholefood stores and health food shops. The publishing house is located in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, which in terms of all things organic is the leading region in the whole of Spain. It’s here in Catalonia that you find the majority of the country’s manufacturers, wholefood stores and organic supermarkets.


We’ll be welcoming the journalist Tatiana Lebedeva from Look.bio in Moscow as a special guest. Since 2013 she has been publishing an internet magazine for consumers - Lookbio.ru – and, since the beginning of December 2014, she has been operating the portal for organic professionals at www.Look.bio. There are now four people working in this start-up company, plus a number of guest authors. Via the consumer portal, Tatiana Lebedeva already reaches 30,000 readers a month. She is a “special guest” not only because she is a newcomer to the group of European organic journalists but also because she comes from a country with a quite different economic system compared with Western Europe. Moreover, as a representative of the next generation who want to popularize organics among younger people in society, she is moving into the front line.

Several other magazines and publications in Germany and Europe will introduce themselves with presentations. A programme for this event can be accessed here.
It takes place on 11.2.2015 from 16.00 – 17.15 in Room Krakau in CCN Ost at Biofach in Nuremberg and is organised by Kai Kreuzer on behalf of Bio Verlag.