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EXTRAWURST on expansion course

“Over the past year, Extrawurst was clearly able to defy the negative trend in the catering industry that was complained about in many places,” says Kim Hagebaum, managing director of the EXTRAWURST franchise system, which is present at 26 locations nationwide. With a growth rate of almost 20 percent, the family business based in Schalksmühle (Sauerland), which has been expanding in franchising since 2007, is reporting a record figure that has not yet been reached...

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Nutrition strategy adopted

The federal cabinet approved the federal government's nutrition strategy last week. The strategy entitled “Good Food for Germany” was developed by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). It brings together around 90 planned and existing nutritional policy measures with the aim of making good food easier for everyone in Germany. With this strategy, the BMEL is fulfilling a mandate from the coalition agreement and society...

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Global organic community at BIOFACH

From February 13th to 16th, 2024, 2.550 international exhibitors from 94 countries will present their extensive product repertoire at BIOFACH, the world's leading trade fair for organic food, 150 of them at VIVANESS, the international trade fair for natural cosmetics. In Nuremberg, participants experience the organic community in action along the entire value chain. Hot topics are discussed in the exhibition halls as well as in the two congresses...

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Bell Food is growing by 5.5 percent and continues to gain share

Despite distortions in the market, the Bell Food Group also achieved pleasing results in the 2023 financial year. “Our business model has once again proven itself to be a guarantee of stability,” says CEO Lorenz Wyss. All business areas contributed to the positive result...

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Positive development in husbandry type labeling

The husbandry system has collected figures that document the distribution of the product range in the four levels for the different animal species. These figures are based on actual sales volumes throughout the year. Accordingly, despite the pandemic and economic challenges, there is a clear shift, for example, in pork products from level 1 (7,1 percent) to level 2 (84,9 percent) - i.e. products from the Animal Welfare Initiative (ITW) program. In 2021, the quantities of pork sold were still distributed at 22 percent in level 1 and 68 percent in level 2 on the self-service shelves...

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“Animal welfare cent” planned

The Minister of Agriculture Özdemir is planning a new meat tax, which will relieve the burden on farmers and, above all, convert their stables for fairer animal husbandry. The money is to be paid by the consumer through the so-called “Animal Welfare Cent”. But his predecessor, Julia Klöckner (CDU), already had this idea 4 years ago...

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Westfleisch takes over The Petfood Company

Westfleisch is continuing to expand its range of pet food products: Germany's second largest meat marketer has taken over the entire business operations of The Petfood Company GmbH from Bocholt on February 1, 2024. “With this takeover, we have taken another step towards extending our own value chain,” explains Dr. Wilhelm Uffelmann, CEO of Westfleisch. “We see high growth potential for The Petfood Company's premium products given the strong demand from our trading partners. We want to exploit this together.”

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New labeling comes into force

The expansion of the origin labeling of meat came into force on February 1, 2024. It is then mandatory at points of sale to indicate where non-prepackaged fresh, chilled or frozen pork, sheep, goat and poultry meat comes from. Previously, the regulation only applied to unpackaged beef and packaged meat. With the corresponding regulation presented by Federal Minister Cem Özdemir, the federal government is fulfilling a long-held wish from the agricultural sector...

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Tönnies Group: Green electricity through hydropower

The Tönnies Group is underpinning its sustainability ambitions: The food producer from Rheda-Wiedenbrück has signed a five-year contract with the Heider Alz power plant in Tacherting in Bavaria. This secures the family business around 50 million kilowatt hours of green electricity from the hydroelectric power plant every year. The contract started on January 1st...

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Fattening pig farmers benefit

In the future, pig farmers in the QS system will be able to get an overview of the animal health of their slaughter pigs much more easily and quickly using the diagnostic data from the slaughterhouses: QS Quality and Security GmbH (QS) has developed an animal health index (TGI) diagnostic data, which contains the diagnostic data from all slaughterhouses to which the farmer has delivered is systematically summarized...

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