Lizzie Vann
Lizzie Vann MBE is the founder of Organix, an organic children's food company, based in Christchurch, Dorset.
Biography
[edit]Vann studied biology at the University of Lancaster, and then worked as an investment analyst in the City of London. Ongoing health problems, and the belief that more and more parents shared her concern regarding the safety of children's food, led her to set up Organix in 1992, offering parents a healthier alternative to mass-produced children's food.
Vann has campaigned for improvements to children's food, including calling on the British Government to regulate more heavily the issue of pesticide residues in food consumed by children, and ban all synthetic dyes and flavour-enhancing additives in children's food.[1][2]
She was also one of three founding members of the Soil Association's Food For Life programme,[3] and from 2007 to 2009 was the chairman of the Soil Association's Organic Trade Group.[4]
Vann sold the company to the Hero group in 2008 and has subsequently invested the proceeds in projects that promote child health and food quality, and renewable energy developments.[citation needed]
In 2019 Vann bought the Bearsville Theater complex for $2.5 million and in 2022 bought Cafe Espresso,[5] in Woodstock, New York.
Awards
[edit]Vann has won a European Woman of Achievement Award, the Caroline Walker Award for campaigning work in the food industry, the Organic Trophy from the Soil Association in 2002, and an MBE for Services to Children's Food.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Press Release
- ^ This is London
- ^ "which was instrumental in improving school dinners in primary schools /a71fa2b6e2b6d3e980256a6c004542b4/cb31eb532e8a7694802571960033fa09?OpenDocument Soil Association". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
- ^ Soil Association Archived 2007-08-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Bob Dylan's Woodstock haunt, Café Espresso, brought back to life". 12 February 2023.