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the brand name "familia". The organic
Bircher muesli was successful and was exported to Germany, Austria, England, the Netherlands and the US within a short period of time. As a result, the company was renamed from Somalon to bio-familia in 1978. As late as 1987, the foreign share was 70 percent, but it fell to 40 percent by 2008 as the company was growing.
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In June 2012, the company received the "Golden Cream Puff", a negative award for the "boldest advertising lie of 2012" for its instant fruit teas made from sugar granules. Hipp advertised its instant fruit teas to small children from the age of 12 months. However, the granules of the tea contained 94
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Personal contact with Edwin
Bircher, the son of the muesli inventor Max Bircher-Benner, gave rise to the idea of producing ready-to-eat BirchermĂĽesli in Sachseln. Bircher gave the Somalon company permission to call its product "Bio-BirchermĂĽesli" and in 1959 it launched the first BirchermĂĽesli under
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consumer magazine "WISO" showed that genetically modified vegetables were processed in Hipp's organic baby food. This was found in almost a quarter of the Hipp samples that were examined. Hipp announced that it would investigate the results of the investigation and intensify the product analyses.
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starting in 1921. Later, the company switched production mainly to "J. Hipp's children's rusk flour", but the gingerbread and wax-drawing workshops continued to operate. After the death of Joseph Hipp, Georg Hipp took over the production of the rusk flour and his mother Maria added a café to the
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In 1964, Georg's son Claus Hipp joined his father's business and he took over management in 1967. For a long time the management consisted of the three brothers Claus Hipp, Georg
Johannes Hipp and Paulus Hipp. Georg Johannes Hipp left in 2010, and over time other family members joined.
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because the company did not describe itself as climate-neutral but even as climate-positive. However, this is done through climate compensation through the purchase of CO2 certificates, which exceed 10% of the company's CO2 emissions.
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in the FlĂĽeli-Ranft pilgrimage site above
Sachseln. In Germany, the Hipp family was already successful with baby food. To strengthen Obwalden as a business location and to market baby food from Sachseln, they founded the
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is a founding member of the Bio
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claims this contradicts Hipp's claim to offer "child-friendly" and "healthy" products. Nutrition experts recommend, that children should not be given any sweetened beverages, but drink water instead.
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with no added sugar have been on the market as a substitute product. In August 2013, the consumer organization
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business. In 1932 the business was split up, and his brother Hans Hipp took over the café, which along with the confectionery and gingerbread shop still exists today.
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In 2002, the company received the "World Prize for
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to 96% sugar, which means that a fruit tea mixed according to specifications contained around two grams of sugar per 100 milliliters.
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Germany's most sustainable company in 2015.
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Georg Hipp founded the company "Nährmittel Hipp" on 1 July 1932. That same year he began to produce baby food in a former
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114:. This is also the origin and seat of the German main factory, which was founded in 1932.
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513:"Wirtschaft: Familienunternehmen: Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne"
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638:"SACHSELN: Bio-Familia-GrĂĽnder Caspar Arquint ist verstorben"
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846:"Hipp verkauft umstrittenen Zuckertee unter anderem Namen"
814:"Hipp nimmt umstrittene, gezuckerte Kindertees vom Markt"
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688:"Bio-Familia-Chef übergibt operatives Geschäft"
223:Pictures of the production site in Pfaffenhofen
102:and personal care products for babies based in
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989:Food and drink companies established in 1932
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356:, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture.
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321:In February 2022, Hipp was accused of
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260:Detailed view of the production site
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313:In October 2013, a sample of the
63:Stefan Hipp, Sebastian Hipp (CEO)
588:"HIPP kauft DMK-Werk in Herford"
538:"Hipp bekennt sich zur Glaskost"
487:"Die Hipp-Gruppe im Kurzporträt"
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663:"History – bio-familia"
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563:"Georg Hipp gestorben"
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347:Baden-Baden
194:pilgrimages
162:Milk powder
158:Humana GmbH
124:gingerbread
81:3200 (2023)
45:1 July 1932
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59:Key people
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290:Criticism
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