| 1974 | Joseph Wilhelm and Jennifer Vermeulen found a company that has the goal to sell healthy foods from controlled organic cultivation.
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| 1975 | Opening of the „Rapunzel“ natural health food store in Augsburg along with an organic gardening enterprise and a wood-fired bakery. Numerous health food stores open all over Germany. “Rapunzel” organizes the supply of the health food stores.
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| 1979 | Both the company and the product range expand. „Rapunzel“ moves to a farm in the Allgäu. Production of nut spreads and muesli; start of the „Rapunzel“ whole sale.
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| 1980 | Joseph Wilhelm travels to Italy and Turkey in order to initiate the first projects promoting controlled organic cultivation. To this day, these projects play a central role.
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| 1986 | Move to Legau into the building of the former dairy company, today’s company headquarters.
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| 1989 | Opening of an office in Izmir/Turkey. Setup of the company quality lab.
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| 1990 | Conversion into a public limited company.
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| 1991 | Foundation of RAPUNZEL France near Avignon/France.
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| 1996 | Foundation of the subsidiary Pure Organic USA.
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| 1997 | Foundation of RAPUNZEL Turkey and RAPUNZEL Iberica (Spain).
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| 2003 | In Bad Grönenbach near Legau, RAPUNZEL opens a distribution center with a total area of 11,300 m². The fully automated high rack warehouse fits a total of 14,000 pallets. Three climate zones at 4, 10 and 15°C guarantee individual handling of the products. Incoming and outgoing goods are handled on 10 loading ramps.
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| 2004 | RAPUNZEL receives the approval as Demeter producer.
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| 2005 | The company celebrates its 30th anniversary.
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| 2007 | RAPUNZEL expands the production and installs a biomass power plant and one of the largest photovoltaic plants in the Allgäu by equipping all the roofs in Legau and the distribution center Bad Grönenbach with solar panels.
A total of 4,000 people participate in GENFREI GEHEN – the march for a World Without Genetically Manipulated Organisms from Lübeck to Lindau.
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| 2008 | Joseph Wilhelm launches the ONE WORLD AWARD that is endowed for the first time at the IFOAM World Congress in Modena.
300 full and part-time staff work at RAPUNZEL. |
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| 2009 | GENFREI GEHEN: second march for a GMO-free world from Berlin to Brussels with thousands of supporters |
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| 2010 | Bestowal of the second ONE WORLD AWARDS at the One World Festival in Legau
Opening of the interactive Organic Museum, installation of a transparent visitors‘ gangway through the production and of a multimedia event room (cinema)
Completion of a new roasting plant for nuts and oil seeds with gentle processing technology and resource-conserving energy concept |
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