The Danone brand is well known for fresh dairy products and also in bottled water. In 2007 it swapped its world number 2 position as producer of cereals and biscuits for the same position in baby foods, having sold the biscuits division to Kraft Foods and acquired Numico.

Isaac Carasso founded the original company in 1919 in Barcelona as a small factory producing yoghurt. The factory was named “Danone”, a Catalan diminutive of the name of his first son, Daniel.

Ten years later, the first French factory was built, but during World War, Daniel Carasso moved the company to New York, where Dannon Milk Products Inc. was founded. In the United States, Daniel partnered with the Swiss-born Spaniard Joe Metzger and changed the brand name to Dannon to sound more American.

In 1951, Daniel Carasso returned to Paris to manage the family’s businesses in France and Spain, and the American business was sold off in 1959. In Europe, Danone merged with Gervais, the leading fresh cheese producer in France in 1967, becoming Gervais Danone.

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