Salus (company)
| SALUS House Dr. med. Otto Greither Nachf. GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1916 |
| Seat | Bruckmühl , Germany |
| management | Otto Greither |
| Number of employees | 400 |
| sales | 100 million euros |
| Branch | Natural remedies |
| Website | www.salus.de |
The SALUS House Dr. med. Otto Greither Nachf. GmbH & Co. KG , based in Bruckmühl in Upper Bavaria, is a company active in over 60 countries.
history
Salus was founded in 1916 by Otto Greither (1867–1930) under the name “Salus-Werk zur Production von Naturheilmittel” in Munich. The company founder studied medicine at the University of Munich and was licensed as a doctor in 1892 . A serious illness of his own prompted him to investigate and finally to the realization that many diseases are based on a disturbance of the metabolism . In order to stabilize this in a natural way, Otto Greither developed the “Salus Kur”, a product that established the company's history.
Since 1945 Salus has been managed by Otto Greither, the son of the company founder. Under the name Salus Haus , the company has had its headquarters in Bruckmühl in Upper Bavaria since 1968, where around 260 employees (as of December 2010) produce natural medicines, food and dietary supplements.
organization
The Salus Group consists of the three individual companies Salus Haus Dr. med. Otto Greither Nachf. GmbH & Co. KG, Salus Pharma GmbH and Walther Schoenenberger Pflanzensaftwerk GmbH & Co. KG.
In 1991, in the year of the company's 75th anniversary, Salus acquired the Walther Schoenenberger Pflanzensaftwerk, a company whose roots go back to 1927. In Magstadt near Stuttgart , the pharmacist and naturalist Walther Schoenenberger had started to produce freshly pressed medicinal herbal juices. In the course of the following years, further products from the areas of pharmaceuticals, food and cosmetics were added. Today Schoenenberger is part of the Salus Group and employs around 75 people. The raw materials for Schoenenberger's fresh plant juices are largely grown directly in Magstadt in Baden-Württemberg and the surrounding area. Some of the raw materials come from officially controlled wild collections. This type of raw material extraction preserves the diversity of plants, as the natural environment is not changed.
Salus Pharma GmbH (operating as Duopharm until December 31, 2010) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Salus Haus, also a company of the Salus Group. For more than 30 years Salus Pharma has been offering its own natural medicinal products as well as natural medicinal products and health products from the Salus Group in pharmacies.
Products
The Salus product range extends from tonics, drops, capsules and dragees to teas and medicinal plant and vegetable juices. A total of around 1,500 different articles are sold in Germany and 60 other countries.
Almost 1,000 tons of raw materials are processed annually. Salus does not use genetically processed products or additives. The company also rejects the use of agro-genetic engineering in agriculture and plant breeding. Salus grows non-seed, GMO-free bantam maize on its trial plot in Bruckmühl because it must not be genetically contaminated.
Salus has been growing more than 200 medicinal plants that were radioactively contaminated in Europe after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and therefore unsuitable for further processing on its own farm in southern Chile - in accordance with EU organic regulations. Plants threatened with extinction are also cultivated on a total of 600 hectares.
Environment and ecology
In 1995 Salus acquired part of one of the last alluvial forests on the Mangfall in the immediate vicinity of the company headquarters in Bruckmühl and has since maintained its own, publicly accessible alluvial forest biotope with a herbal nature trail.
Since 1996, the Salus Group has been participating in the European EMAS environmental management system for practiced environmental protection (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) and is a member of the Bavarian Environmental Pact.
The managing owner of the house, Otto Greither, received the title of “ Eco Manager of the Year ” from the business newspaper Capital and the WWF in 2003 and, in addition to numerous other medals, such as the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class, also the Bavarian State Medal for Environment and Health. In July 2008, Greither received the highest award of the Free State of Bavaria - the Bavarian Order of Merit - for social commitment in his companies and in the Upper Bavarian community of Bruckmühl .
Certification according to the EU Organic Regulation has been in place since it came into force in 2007. Salus is a member of the Association of Ecological Food Manufacturers
Since 2010, the Salus Journalist Award for critical reporting on agro-genetic engineering has been announced.
Web links
- Website of the Salus Haus Dr. med. Otto Greither Nachf. GmbH & Co. KG
- Walther Schoenenberger Pflanzensaftwerk GmbH & Co. KG
- The entrepreneur talk: Otto Greither, owner and managing director of the Salus Group
- Salus medicinal plants lexicon with photos and invert search functions
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b https://www.salus.de/de/unternehmen/salus-haus/
- ↑ Stefan Beyer: "The organic pioneer from Bruckmühl" , in: Welt am Sonntag from April 4, 2010. Retrieved on April 29, 2011
- ↑ Salus House Dr. med. Otto Greither Nachf. GmbH: Company portrait with overall environmental statement 2009-2011 ( memento of the original from November 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ↑ Klaus Philippscheck: “On the trail of nature. The history of the Schoenenberger company in Magstadt ” . Retrieved May 31, 2011
- ↑ Of course magazine: Of course on site - fresh from nature ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 31, 2011
- ↑ Pharmacy Adhoc: PHYTO-MANUFACTURER - Duopharm becomes SALUS Pharma ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 31, 2011
- ↑ Ralph Schweinfurth: "An Upper Bavarian Organic Pioneer", in: Bayerische Staatszeitung from November 13, 2009
- ↑ Bantam-Mais.de. Promotion website. Retrieved April 29, 2011
- ↑ Elizabeth Dostert "Greither herb garden", in: Süddeutsche Zeitung on July 31, 2010
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ SALUS House Dr. med. Otto Greither Nachf. GmbH: Company portrait with overall environmental statement 2009-2011 ( memento of the original from November 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 29, 2011.
- ↑ Heiner Effern: "The Patriarch", in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 27, 2010
- ↑ Salus-Journalistenpreis.de . Website of the Salus journalist award. Retrieved April 29, 2011.
