Country Profile
A look at the organic retail scene in France
Fri, 20/09/19 - 02:30
By Warren Beaumont
The French organic market is showing strong growth. It reached 9.7 billion euros in 2018, 15.7 percent higher compared to 2017. After Germany, France is the second-largest consumer of organic products in Europe. The influence of the Bio label has reached record levels. Fr
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Peru expands presence at organic food fairs
Mon, 03/09/18 - 08:00
By Warren Beaumont
Peru and its export agency MINCETUR, the Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo is expanding the promotion of Peruvian foods with more trade shows and missions such as at the recent Natural & Organic Products Asia Hong Kong show and the Natural Products Scandinavia
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Australian organics posts solid growth
Mon, 07/05/18 - 09:00
By Warren Beaumont
New findings released on April 30 at Naturally Good Expo in Sydney by leading organic industry group Australian Organic show an uptake in household spending allocated to organic produce and goods. According to the annual Australian Organic Market Report, 40 percent of org
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Canada’s organic market boom says COTA report
Wed, 24/01/18 - 08:20
By Clara Paz
A new report has found that more Canadian shoppers purchased organic items weekly (66 per cent) in 2017, up 10 percent from 2016, with Millennials (83 percent), University Graduates (78 percent), Albertans (74 percent), Families (72 percent) and Men (67 percent) the top w
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Touring the Danish organic scene
Tue, 24/01/17 - 07:10
By Adriana Michael
After taking part in the Natural Products Scandinavia fair in Malmo, Sweden on 16-17 November last year, OWN visited Danish organic companies and retail shops to witness this remarkable land of history and its contrast of old buildings and traditions and a youthful attitu
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UK organic market shows continued growth
Wed, 15/06/16 - 07:25
By O.W.N News Network
The Natural & Organic Products Europe held in London April 17-18, confirms a sector showing positive growth in the UK, as revealed by the Soil Association’s 2016 Organic Market Report, launched on 23 February 2016. The UK organic market has experienced steady
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Organic food in China set for huge growth
Sun, 24/05/15 - 18:12
By Warren Beaumont
China is the world’s largest grocery market with the value of the organic food market estimated at US$7.8 billion to more than US$13 billion, while grocery market growth is expected to rise by 9% in 2014 to over 14% in 2020, according to IGD research.
A market stud
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Experience Barbados …the organic way
Tue, 03/02/15 - 17:30
By Adriana Michael
CPRIAfter 21 years since the last edition the Barbados Multinational Fair returned on November 15th with the theme of sustainability and the importance of commitment, voluntarism and cooperation to inspire the positive change we want to be.
The event was celebrated at th
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Ecuador has strong presence at Sial Paris 2014
Thu, 02/10/14 - 17:12
By Francisca Galvan
Ecuador will be participating this year at SIAL Paris, with 16 local companies displaying their high quality and innovative products, including quinoa, chia, organic banana chips, palm hearts, tuna, exotic sauces, pulps and non-traditional fruit juices.
Following the rec
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Brazil to become a global organic food power
Sat, 26/07/14 - 00:54
By Adriana Michael
Brazil is the fifth largest country in size, with a population of 199 million, and is the world’s sixth-largest economy with a GDP of around US$2.2 trillion. It is a member of the G20, the G7 and the BRICS countries.
Over the past decade the South American nation h
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UK organic sector returns to growth
Wed, 25/06/14 - 21:26
By O.W.N News Network
The Soil Association’s annual Organic Market Report released on March 13 reveals that the organic sector has seen growth of 2.8% in 2013; the first time it has seen annual growth since 2008.
Overall organic sales are growing slightly ahead of total grocery sales fo
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Spotlight on Chile
Sat, 01/02/14 - 19:26
By Adriana Michael
Although organic farming in Chile started in the early 1980s, the sector only took off in the mid-1990s. Having been a supplier of off-season fresh and frozen fruit mainly for countries in the northern hemisphere, large conventional fruit and wine companies with export ex
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Strong outlook for OrganicsBrazil
Sun, 28/04/13 - 07:20
By Warren Beaumont
Tracking exports annually from 74 member companies OrganicsBrazil has been an export promotion project, geared to assist Brazilian companies develop this channel, says executive coordinator, Ming Liu. In spite of strong growth in the domestic market, in 2012 co
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Honey-sweet smell of success in Romania
Mon, 12/11/12 - 16:09
By Karin Zeitvogel
To your health, an Ihre Gesundheit, a su salud -- or as you might hear at this year’s BioFach World Organic Trade Fair in Nuremberg, Germany, “În cinstea dumitale.” That’s Romanian, and after years of an uphill climb for the new EU member sta
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Slovenia embraces Peruvian superfoods
Wed, 22/02/12 - 17:41
By Adriana Michael
A small country of just two million in the heart of Europe, where the Alps and the Mediterranean meet the Pannonian plains and the Karst caves, Slovenia is becoming an attractive country for organic foods and LOHAS lifestyles. The charming nation attracts business people
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Organics in India: The time is right!
Wed, 15/02/12 - 09:48
By Adriana Michael
India’s agriculture is at the crossroads. Hundreds of farmers who had tried “chemical farming” are turning to multiple-crops and organic farming, not only because of the high cost involved in synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and the seeds supplied by th
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Peru launched a new country brand
Sat, 11/06/11 - 12:18
By O.W.N News Network
To promote tourism and investment, Peru launched a new brand in March 2011. A red and white logo, colors in the national flag, represents the country’s rich culture and biodiversity, history and ancient and recent accomplishments. The word Perú is written wit
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