The Manhattan Milkman.

New York has a brandnew oldfashioned home-delivery service for fresh milk again. The Manhattan Milk Company delivers organic milk in glass bottles to Manhattan’s doors every wednesday in the early morning. The delivery charge is 5 US$. The empty bottles are taken by the driver when the fresh ones are delivered. The milk is produced [...]

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Manufactum in Cologne.

Today Manufactum opens it’s store in the city of Cologne, Germany. More than 1.000 sqm space provide the major part of the company’s catalogue-sortiment and a big food department.

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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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Organic fashion’s flagship.

Hess Natur is the european marketleader in producing ecological fashion since more than 30 years. Today the mailorder company, based in central Germany, is developed to become a strong fashion brand, using organic and fair traded materials only. The quality standards are the highest in the market: no chemical fabrics or ingredients, ethic manufacturing, sustainable management.

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Good things in an old minebuilding.

In the northern part of Germany’s Ruhrgebiet, close to Dortmund, the mailorder company Manufactum has established it’s first extraordinary departmentstore. Strange location? Yes. But the place is special: The buildings belong to a former coal mine. The departmentstore itself occupies 1.000 sqm in the conserved dressing hall.

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The J. Peterman Company

This mailorder company does things different: J. Peterman offers valuable single products only and calls the catalogue “Owner’s Manual”. The goods come from allover the world and they all have a history and are worth to survive. And they are hard to get. The pictures are painted, the product descriptions are texted with love and [...]

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