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Weleda embarks on consolidation process

 
By Christian von Arnim

ARLESHEIM (NNA) - The new management of the Swiss-based medicine and natural cosmetics group Weleda has given a positive assessment of the company’s future. Presenting the 2011 annual accounts at the end of May, administrative board president Paul Mackay and CEO Ralph Heinisch said Weleda was on the way to being “turned around”.

In 2011, Weleda had to absorb a loss of 8.3m euros (£6.7m, US$10.4m) after interest and taxes on a “stagnating income”. In the previous year the deficit was 3.8m euros…

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Weleda embarks on consolidation process

 
By Christian von Arnim

ARLESHEIM (NNA) - The new management of the Swiss-based medicine and natural cosmetics group Weleda has given a positive assessment of the company’s future. Presenting the 2011 annual accounts at the end of May, administrative board president Paul Mackay and CEO Ralph Heinisch said Weleda was on the way to being “turned around”.

In 2011, Weleda had to absorb a loss of 8.3m euros (£6.7m, US$10.4m) after interest and taxes on a “stagnating income”. In the previous year the deficit was 3.8m euros…

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Value-centred banks out-perform conventional banks

 
By NNA staff

VANCOUVER (NNA) - There has been strong growth of value-centred banking worldwide. This could clearly be seen at the latest meeting of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV), held earlier this year in Vancouver, Canada.

The GABV is a grouping made up of sixteen of the world’s leading sustainable banks. According to a study compiled with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, the financial indicators of these value-centred banks show that they are outperforming even the biggest…

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Unexpected demand for microfinance in Germany

 
By NNA Staff

BOCHUM (NNA) - The demand for microloans in Germany has proved far larger than initially anticipated. According to Falk Zientz, head of microfinance at the GLS Bank, which was asked by the German government in 2010 to roll out a microfinance scheme across Germany, the response of borrowers to the loans on offer had been far larger than anticipated.

So far approximately 6,630 microloans with a volume of 39.8m euros had been disbursed since 2010 while the initial expectation had not been more…

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Unexpected demand for microfinance in Germany

 
By NNA Staff

BOCHUM (NNA) - The demand for microloans in Germany has proved far larger than initially anticipated. According to Falk Zientz, head of microfinance at the GLS Bank, which was asked by the German government in 2010 to roll out a microfinance scheme across Germany, the response of borrowers to the loans on offer had been far larger than anticipated.

So far approximately 6,630 microloans with a volume of 39.8m euros had been disbursed since 2010 while the initial expectation had not been more…

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Wise Traditions festival and conference comes to Epsom Down Racecourse

 
By NNA Staff

LONDON (NNA) – The Wise Traditions London 2012 festival for traditional nutrition will take place next month at Epsom Down Racecourse. The event on 17 and 18 March includes the third annual Weston A. Price Foundation conference with speakers including Professor Ton Baars, the former professor of biodynamic agriculture at Kassel University in Germany.

The Weston A. Price Foundation campaigns for “wise traditions in food, farming and the healing arts and is very supportive of the works of Rudolf…

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Wise Traditions festival and conference comes to Epsom Down Racecourse

 
By NNA Staff

LONDON (NNA) – The Wise Traditions London 2012 festival for traditional nutrition will take place next month at Epsom Down Racecourse. The event on 17 and 18 March includes the third annual Weston A. Price Foundation conference with speakers including Professor Ton Baars, the former professor of biodynamic agriculture at Kassel University in Germany.

The Weston A. Price Foundation campaigns for “wise traditions in food, farming and the healing arts and is very supportive of the works of Rudolf…

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Anthroposophical design in perspective

 
By NNA Staff

With his book, “Dornach Design”, Reinhold J. Fäth takes a voyage through Rudolf Steiner’s art impulse. It is an opulent book about furniture designed from an anthroposophical perspective during in the period from 1911 to 2011 with an abundance of pictures, most of them in colour. Anne-Kathrin Weise looked at the book for NNA.

BERLIN (NNA) - Every time I started reading in order finally to begin this review, I just kept reading and reading, discovering ever new design objects with often very…

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Anthroposophical design in perspective

 
By NNA Staff

With his book, “Dornach Design”, Reinhold J. Fäth takes a voyage through Rudolf Steiner’s art impulse. It is an opulent book about furniture designed from an anthroposophical perspective during in the period from 1911 to 2011 with an abundance of pictures, most of them in colour. Anne-Kathrin Weise looked at the book for NNA.

BERLIN (NNA) - Every time I started reading in order finally to begin this review, I just kept reading and reading, discovering ever new design objects with often very…

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Radioactivity as a moral challenge

 
By NNA correspondent Cornelie Unger-Leistner

LEIPZIG (NNA) - The series of events that led to the nuclear accident at Fukushima have once again made it abundantly clear that present thinking about the environment has not developed to keep up with the rise of radioactivity as a “force of nature”. 

Its effects will remain a challenge to humanity through to the end of this century and beyond. This was the central thesis of a talk given by the physicist and theologian Dr.? Hans-Bernd Neumann at the Leipzig book fair at an event organised by…

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