The discounter Lidl wants to sensitize consumers to the added value of local and high-quality organic products. For this purpose, the company is running a campaign to help farmers make a big impression.

The Kaufland food chain has expanded its cooperation with Demeter and is now a member of the Bio-Verband. Demeter wants to create more sales opportunities for its farmers and win customers who usually only buy from conventional food retailers. The Federal Association for Natural Foods and Natural Products is critical of this.

Being open to alternative packaging materials, but taking a close look at their ecological balance sheet: This is what Isabell Kuhl, deputy head of department in quality management at Alnatura,

Now Alnatura also offers ketchup, lentils, rice and cane sugar in a deposit jar. The company is thus once again focusing on recycling management. Step by step, Alnatura intends to further expand the use of returnable glass in its product range.

On three floors and around 7,500 square metres of space, Rapunzel wants to make “organic experience” possible with its new visitor centre. The building is currently under construction in Legau in the Unterallgäu, around 20 minutes by car from Memmingen. It is scheduled to open at the beginning of 2022.

By 2025, the Garnier brand, which belongs to L’Oréal, wants to do without 100 percent of the use of new plastic in packaging. One step along the way: In the “Garnier BIO” line, the caring organic hemp gel cream now uses a cosmetic tube partly made of paper.