Alnatura

The Alnatura Produktions- und Handels GmbH is a chain of organic food supermarkets and producer of organic food headquartered in Darmstadt, Hesse in Germany. The company was founded in 1984 by Götz Rehn and distributes food and textiles, produced according to ecological aspects, under the trademark Alnatura. The company is based on ideas of the esoteric anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner, which its founder Götz Rehn was strongly influenced by. The company is like Demeter and others, part of the pseudoscientific anthroposopical community in Germany. These products are sold both by various drugstore and retail chains as well as the captive organic supermarket chain Alnatura Super Natur Markt. Alnatura currently operates 107 supermarkets in Germany, each with 500 to 800 square meters of retail space, mainly in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. Unlike other retail chains, Alnatura does not have a Betriebsrat (engl. employee representative committee/worker's council) for the entire company and its employees were paid below the collective agreement up until 2010.