Media & visuals
For media enquiries
Christoph Kalbermatten
Managing Director of Ceres Heilmittel AG and Ceres Heilmittel GmbH
Susanne Wechsler
Media Office, Ceres Heilmittel
Visuals
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Below you will find a selection of visuals. You may also use other images from this website, for example those of individual plants. If you need a higher-resolution version, feel free to write to us at: medien@ceresheilmittel.ch The employees listed under "People" are happy to give interviews and to act as your contacts on site. Please also get in touch with us via the email address above.
Ceres at a glance
Ceres Heilmittel is a Swiss family business. Hildegard and Dr Roger Kalbermatten founded it in 1991 with the ambition of rethinking how plant-based mother tinctures are made. That work gave rise to the Ceres mortar process, developed by Dr Roger Kalbermatten and patented in 1995. Today the company is run by Christoph Kalbermatten, in the second generation.
At the technological heart of the process is the rhythmic grinding of the fresh plant directly in alcohol — in the Ceres mortar grinder, slowly and without heating. Because no heat is generated and oxidation remains low, the mother tinctures retain their intense colours, their long shelf life and their complex aroma.
The plants, from organic cultivation or controlled wild collection, are harvested and prepared carefully by hand. Ceres mother tinctures mature for several years in the tincture store and are dosed very low: up to 10 times lower than commercially available tinctures.
- Year founded
- 1991
- Founders
- Dr Roger Kalbermatten and Hildegard Kalbermatten
- Management
- Christoph Kalbermatten (2nd generation), Managing Director of Ceres Heilmittel AG and Ceres Heilmittel GmbH
- Sites
- Kesswil (TG, headquarters), Nax (VS, production), Kerpen (DE, subsidiary)
- Employees (Switzerland and Germany)
- 47
- Number of different medicinal plants
- 55 native medicinal plants
- Products
- 78 preparations – mother tinctures, complex remedies and dilutions made from native medicinal plants, plus three organic specialised care creams