Organic from beets

Due to high market demand for organic products, Nordzucker has increasingly focused on the topic of „organic farming“ in recent years.

Nordzucker serves this growing organic segment exclusively with organic sugar from regional sugarbeets. This orientation is in line with the farm- to-fork strategy adopted by the European Commission. The organic market - a growing market

Turnover with organic food in Billion 14 11,97 12 10,91 Organic farming in Germany 10,34 9,84 10 8,62 7,76 The agricultural sector, the food industry 8 7,42 7,04 6,64 and the grocery trade are responding to 5,85 5,8 6,02 6 5,3 the growing demand - the number of 4,6 Turnover in billions of euros Turnover Umsatz in Milliarden 3,9 4 3,5 3,1 registered organic farms has risen to over 2,7 3 2,1 30,000. Organic farming is now prac- 2 tised on around 1.5 million hectares in 0 Germany. 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Note(s): Germany without out-of-home market. Source(s): BÖLW; GfK; Nielsen; bioVista; AMI; Uni Kassel

Number of products with organic label in Germany Number in thousands

95 85 85 82 77 78 75 72 75 70 Tausende 67 64 66 65 62 56 55 51 45 45 Anzahl der Produkte Number of products 33 35 30 24 25

15 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020* Note(s): Germany * Forecast Source(s): BMEL; BLE

Where do you buy organic products? Survey on places to buy organic products in Germany, 2019

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

SupermarketSupermarkt 88% Discounter 72% BakeryBäcker 64% WeeklyWochenmarkt market 61% MetzgerButcher 59% DirectlyDirekt from beim the Erzeugerproducer 54% Organic foodBiol adenshop bzw.or health Naturkostladen food shop 52% DrogeriemarktDrugstore 42%

OrganicBiosupermarkt supermarket 41% HealthReformhaus food shop 29% ÜberVia dasthe Internetinternet 6%

SubscriptionAbokiste box 6% KioskKiosk and und petrol Tankstell stations en 3%

Note(s): Germany; August to October 2018; 14 years and older; 911 respondents; persons, who buy organic food at least occasionally. Source(s): BMEL Organic beet cultivation

Particularity of organic farming Sustainability In contrast to conventional agriculture, Together with its farmers, Nordzucker is organic farming is legally obliged to do continuously driving sustainable sugar without synthetically produced pesticides beet cultivation forward. The coopera- and mineral fertilisers in arable farming. tion includes both cultivation advice and One of the biggest challenges of organic inspections in accordance with beet cultivation is that weeds must be Nordzucker‘s guidelines. removed by machine or by hand. As an environmentally friendly crop, 100 per cent of the is Regionality recycled. Important partners are farmers who have abundant valuable experience and have often worked with Nordzucker for generations. The organic beet is grown in Germany and processed into sugar locally. Production & Quality

Production Quality Due to the growing acreage, the organic All organic products from Nordzucker sugar beet campaign was expanded to meet the requirements of European food three factories: law. Kedaniai in , Nyköbing in Den- Organic cultivation and the extraction of mark, and Schladen in Germany. Even organic sugar are subject to DE-ÖKO-003 German agriculture though the processing does not differ to strict legal requirements arising significantly from that of conventional from the EC Organic Regulation No. sugar beet, the use of adjuvants is only 834/2007. Cultivation and organic sugar permitted in accordance with the organic production are inspected on site by standard. An important aspect of pro- officially recognised inspection bodies. duction is that organic beet is not mixed with conventional beet and that organic Nordzucker itself is monitored by the sugar is separated from conventionally LACON inspection bodies in Germany produced goods. In addition this process and by the Food Monitoring Agency in must also be documented in detail. . Naturland & Bioland – more than organic...

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Product Cultivation / Production Packages organic certification

Organic crystal sugar DE / DE 25kg PE DE-ÖKO-003 1000kg BB Bioland / Naturland 25t bulk via silo truck

Organic icing sugar DE / DE 25kg Paper bag DE-ÖKO-003 Bioland / Naturland

Organic invert sugar DE / DE bulk DE-ÖKO-003 syrup 680kg IBC Bioland / Naturland 1360kg IBC

The above-mentioned qualities are comparable with the known conventional products in terms of application technology.

Nordzucker offers technical advice and implementation support for all applications. If you have any questions, please contact your Nordzucker key account manager.

Further information: Nordzucker AG Küchenstraße 9 38100 Braunschweig

Phone: +49 531 2411-0 E-Mail: [email protected] www.nordzucker.com