The story of our establishment. Our milestones. It all began with a love story β the story of Anny Metzner from Solothurn, a Swiss woman living abroad, and Georg Hipp from Germany, who made baby food there.
Georg and Anny Hipp-Metzner followed in their footsteps and often visited the tomb of St. There, surrounded by the impressive mountain scenery, they felt a deep-seated sense of connection β not just to each other, but also to this powerful place. Anny and Georg Hipp-Metzner had a vision.
To do so, they founded the company Somalon AG in Together with their long-time friend, the Grisons-based lawyer Dr Caspar Arquint, they started an attempt to market baby food from Sachseln. However, the Swiss market was saturated and business did not go to plan.
New ideas were needed. In a letter, Dr C. The brand name said it all β healthy food for the whole family. Success was not long in coming. As a logical consequence, Somalon was renamed bio-familia AG in In the high altitudes of the Swiss Alps, where the clear air makes your cheeks flushed and you can see all the way to the horizon, something occurred that would change the world of food forever.
On this day, Dr Maximilian Bircher-Benner, born in Aarau in , met a dairymaid while out on a hike. She invited him to join her for a meal. He shared the table with three bearded shepherds. A simple yet nourishing meal was set in front of him: milk, porridge, apples and nuts. Food that was commonplace for the herdsmen at the table, but a revelation for the doctor.
