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Sri Lanka: Good Market – Organic, Sustainable and Local

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

13.05.2015

Sri Lanka is a small country and for a long time the people had other worries than where to buy organic products. But the Good Market project in Colombo shows that there is growing demand for organic food, natural cosmetics and sustainably manufactured products.

Organic supermarkets in Belgium: Biocap has three stores

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

05.05.2015 Kai Kreuzer

The specialist wholefood trade in Belgium lags behind countries like Germany and France. Large-scale specialist organic stores (over 200 m²) and organic supermarkets (over 400 m²) are far from being the standard in organic marketing. Three of the nearly two dozen Belgian organic supermarkets operate under the title Biocap.

Poland: new store concepts with bistro

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

21.04.2015 Kai Kreuzer

Poland’s biggest wholefood retailer, the Organic Farma Zdrowia Group, increased turnover in 2014 by 25 %, which equates to a 25 % rise in value from 52 million zloty (12.5 million euros) to over 65 million zloty (15.1 million euros). By implementing a franchise system, the company’s aim is to be operating 100 specialist wholefood stores avross the whole of Poland by the end of 2017.

Organic Food Deliveries in Rio by Clube Orgânico

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

06.04.2015 Redaktion

Two young Brazilians founded a food club that connects consumers and organic producers through weekly delivery of organic food baskets, reports the Rio Times online.

Bio Company: double-digit growth and further expansion

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

13.03.2015

In 2014, the German Bio Company continued to consolidate its position as the major organic supermarket operator and market leader in the Berlin‐Brandenburg region. Across the whole of Germany this Berlin chain is now among the top three in terms of the number of stores.

Berlin: organs on track to grow in the metropolitan region

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

02.03.2015

Total turnover in the regional specialist trade in the metropolitan area of Berlin-Brandenburg was well over 350 million euros in 2014. This equates to growth of at least 8 %.

German organic market grows to 7.91billion euros

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

20.02.2015

According to the calculations of the organization “Arbeitskreis Biomarkt”*, in 2014 turnover of organic food and beverages rose by 4.8 %, and the total market volume increased to €7.91bn (2013: €7.55bn).

Current developments in the Russian organic market

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

17.02.2015 Redaktion

In Europe, Russia is considered to be one of the worst performing countries in terms of the turnover of organic food. According to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, in 2012 sales of organic food in Russia amounted to 148 million US dollars, which represents growth of 7.8 % compared with 2011.

The Netherlands –Biofach Country of the Year – developing splendidly

Trade Specialised Food Retail Trade

31.01.2015

The Dutch organic market has more or less doubled since 2008, and in 2013 it passed the billion euro mark. The organic organisation Bionext estimates the value of turnover to be 1.07 billion euros. Around 1,500 certified organic farms are operating in the Netherlands and 1,700 companies are active in the manufacturing and trading sector.