Slowman Rach.

You can’t call him slow: Christian Rach, star cook from Hamburg, toured in recent years relentlessly in the German province of the country and helped restaurant owners to flavor their daily business again. With new recipes for food and marketing, often á la (last) minute before the business-soufflé fell apart. With his new initiative he [...]

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Secret LOHAS-Yeti’s.

LOHAS are Yeti’s! Everything seems to confirm that: They are addicted to nature, extremly focused on themselves. Ideally they live in LOHAS-groups but they still remain being loner, trying to be as unique as possible.

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hessnatur in Munich.

Last weekend hessnatur opened it’s flagship-store in Munich, Germany. The store is about 500 sqm big and offers the complete range of hessnatur’s products: organic fashion, shoes, accessories and cosmetics.

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Photo art now.

Foto: www.silentpark.com slowretail & art - series, part 1 Since a few days the silentpark website is online, founded by the brandnew hamburg-based Silentpark GmbH. Temporary photo-artists now have a professional platform to present and sell their art.

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Sustainable day in may.

A “day of sustainability” will take place at beautiful Weinstrasse-Region in central Germany on May 29th, 2008.

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A concept store for Zollverein.

   Deutsche Version Die Zunft AG (translated “The Guild, Inc.”), which has been mentioned here already, is getting real: Being part of Unesco Word Heritage, one of the preserved halls of Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany, is changed into the Zunft[werk] Concept Store.  

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40 Flagshipstores in 20 squaremeters.

Deutsche Version Everyone has exact 1.000 cm³ retail space: at designe, kleine!, a tiny store in Frankfurt’s hip shopping district Sachsenhausen, designers rent boxes of that size to present their products monthly.

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The plumber’s shop.

Deutsche Version Downtown Munich, at historical Hackenviertel, just around the corner of fashion chains and departmentstores, Der Voelkel is both a historic and modern address for bath furniture.

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Sleepless in Berlin.

Deutsche Version Fresh ‘N’ Friends is Berlin’s first supermarket which opens 24/7. It has been opened in a hip neighbourhood at Kastanienallee (Prenzlauer Berg) and makes both sense and fun. The “Premium Convenience” range of products is focused on the modelling and advertising customers:

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Coledampf’s cooking culture.

The Coledampfs-stores offer everything essential for the kitchen – even very rare, oldfashioned kitchen supplies, pots, tools and textiles are to get here.

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Delicatessen online.

Basically it is a contradiction: an online mail-order business for fresh delicatessen food. Nevertheless, it works in Germany - Genusshandwerker has great success!

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The Belgian Quarter in Cologne.

About twenty of the most creative traders and agencies in Cologne’s hip district “Belgian Quarter” have realized the website and community Chic Belgique together. The area (map) is physically close to the main shopping high streets of Cologne, mentally it is relaxing different:

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