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Austria: denn‘s biomarkt expands branch network
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12.09.2018 EditorTomorrow a new denn's organic market will open in Eisenstadt. The Austrian denn's organic market family will thus grow to 28 markets.
Aldi Germany: Strategy against packaging waste
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04.09.2018 EditorThe German discount stores Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd want to significantly reduce packaging. The common strategy is also about unpacked and disposable bags.
Human rights: Poor performance of German food retailers
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29.06.2018 EditorThe human rights organisation Oxfam has compiled numerous examples of human and labour rights violations in the supply chains of the major supermarket operators in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the USA. Aldi, Lidl, Edeka and Rewe performed particularly poorly.
Bio Company, German champion in sustainability and regionality
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03.04.2018Once again, Berlin-based Bio Company experienced growth in 2017 and it sees itself well positioned for the future. The company's first stores were launched in Berlin almost 20 years ago. For Georg Kaiser, co-founder and CEO at Bio Company, merely selling organic products was not enough. So, he insisted on offering products from the metropolitan region of Berlin-Brandenburg and built up a network of regional suppliers. For this CO₂ saving measure as an important part of the sustainability strategy, the company has been rewarded.
USA: Amazon is pushing organic
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13.03.2018 EditorStep by step, the online trader is widening its presence in the American organic market. The Whole Foods range 365 Every Day Value is playing a big part in this expansion.
Germany: Dennree with almost 30 million euros profit in 2016
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23.01.2018 EditorThe German Dennree Group was able to close the year 2016 successfully. The balance sheet published shortly before Christmas shows a profit of almost 30 million euros (after tax). Sales rose by around ten percent. For 2017, only a low single-digit increase in sales is expected.
Greenpeace Austria: Merkur selected “Supermarket of the Year” in 2017
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18.01.2018 EditorLast year again, the environmental organisation Greenpeace examined the range of the nine largest Austrian supermarkets. By the end of 2017, Merkur was voted "Supermarket of the Year" for the second time in a row.
Amazon: more sale at Whole Foods Stores
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27.11.2017 EditorAmazon has started to sell tech products and gifts at selected Whole Foods Market stores. The online giant has also announced additional discounts on Whole Foods prices to members of its Prime membership service.
France: first Auchanbio store opened near Lille
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20.11.2017 EditorOn the 8th of November 2017, the first Auchanbio store opened in Lille, Northern France. The new organic retail store of the company Auchan Retail France offers 4,200 organic products on a sales area of 450 sqm.
France: Naturalia opens vegan stores
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25.07.2017 EditorThe French organic chain Naturalia, a company belonging to the Monoprix corporation, has opened three small outlets with a range of around 2000 vegan products.
UK: Holland & Barrett has been acquired
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24.07.2017 EditorWe learn from The Guardian that the market leader in the UK health and wellness retail market, Holland & Barrett, has been acquired for £1.8bn by a retail investment fund controlled by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman.
Germany: BioCompany cooperates with Allyouneedfresh
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21.07.2017 EditorThe Berlin organic supermarket chain BioCompany has launched its online business. All its roughly 150 own-brand products and BioCompany's trade brands are now available from the online supermarket allyouneedfresh.de.
Amazon acquires Whole Foods Market
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19.06.2017 EditorFriday June 16 Amazon and Whole Foods Market annouced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Amazon will acquire Whole Foods Market for approximately $13.7 billion.
France: organic retail continues to expand
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06.06.2017 Kai KreuzerAs last year, France is excelling with high growth rates in the organic sector. In terms of both land area and turnover, the increase is impressive. The expansion of the specialist wholefood trade in France continues unabated. In the first four months of 2017 (middle of December 2016 to middle of April 2017) 61 specialist organic stores and organic supermarkets were opened. The average retail area measured 335 m². Total turnover of the organic industry, including catering, is around 7 billion euros.
Japan: organic supermarket "Bio c’bon" has opened in Tokyo
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21.03.2017 Editor"Bio c'Bon" is an organic supermarket from France. The first store in central Tokyo opened on the 8th of December. The shop offers fresh foods such as fruit vegetables and meat, mainly domestic organic JAS certified agricultural products, processed foods and beverages, such as wine and cheese, seasonings and confectionery as well as natural/organic non-food products, among them body care, cosmetics and supplies for babies and children are offered. The French chain plans to expand in Japan.
Denn’s: increase in turnover of more than 30 percent in 2015
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18.03.2017 RedaktionAt the end of February German retailer denn’s Biomarkt GmbH presented its end-of-year results for 2015. They show that the Dennree subsidiary generated turnover of nearly 305 million euros with its then total of 217 stores.
German BioCompany grew more than 8%
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21.02.2017 EditorIn 2016 BioCompany increased compared to the previous year by 9 million euros (8.2%) to 145 million euros. The other companies of the BioCompany Group, Havelland Bio and Midgard Naturkost, had a revenue of around five million euros.
Veganz explains that it did not declare insolvency
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26.01.2017 EditorIn a current statement the German firm Veganz GmbH explains that it did not declare insolvency (we reported earlier) but is restructuring the retail stores and focusing on the core business.
Germany: vegan supermarket chain Veganz – declaration of insolvency
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24.01.2017 EditorIn December, the supermarket chain Veganz reported its self-administered insolvency. As the Lebensmittelzeitung (LZ) states, its network of stores is going to be radically slimmed down.
Germany: dispute over organic brand Alnatura
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08.11.2016 EditorThe long dispute between dm, a German chain of drugstores that sells cosmetics, healthcare and household products and health food, Müller and Rossmann, two other big German drugstore chains, is about to be settled.
The focus is on Wessanen in the takeover market
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29.09.2016 EditorAs the Dutch stock exchange journal ABM Financial News reports, analysts and investors are focusing on Holland's organic corporation Wessanen. In the course of the takeover of the US organic enterprise WhiteWave by Danone it says that speculation about Wessanen, already smouldering for some time, has surfaced once again.
Switzerland: Migros offers reusable veggie bags
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27.09.2016 EditorCalled “Veggie-Bags“, the Swiss corporation Migros is now selling reusable bags for fruit and vegetables.
Veganz expands retail activity in Austria
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15.09.2016 EditorThe vegan supermarket chain Veganz is cooperating with the food retailer Spar. According to a press report, up to 40 Veganz brand vegan products will be available from now on across the whole of Austria.
McDonald’s goes Cage Free
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31.08.2016 Redaktion50% of the whole McDonald’s menu consists of chicken and eggs. Steve Easterbrook, CEO at McDonald’s has now launched a 10-year plan to switch the whole production from caged to free-range hens.
Whole Foods gets a warning for “seriously violations”
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23.06.2016 EditorThe Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter to Whole Foods co-CEOs John Mackey and Walter Robb about what the FDA called "serious violations" it found after inspecting a Whole Foods food preparation facility in Massachusetts.
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