Danone S. It was founded in in Barcelona, Spain. Some of the company's products are branded Dannon in the United States. In , Daniel Carasso returned to Paris to manage the family's businesses in France and Spain, and the American business was sold to Beatrice Foods in ; it was repurchased by Danone in In , the company merged with bottle maker Boussois-Souchon-Neuvesel BSN , which was formed by the merger of Glaces de Boussois, France's 2nd-largest producer of flat glass, with Lyon-based Verreries Souchon-Neuvesel, France's top producer of bottles and jars.
Souchon-Neuvesel, based in the Lyon region, produced bottles, industrial containers, flacons and table glassware container glass. Glaces de Boussois, located in northern France, made windows for the building and automobile industries plate glass. The company changed its name to Groupe Danone in The acquisitions initially took the shape of vertical integration, with BSN acquiring Alsatian brewer Kronenbourg and Evian branded mineral water who were the glassmaker's largest customers.
This move provided content with which to fill the factory's bottles. In , BSN changed its name to Groupe Danone, adopting the name of the group's best-known international brand.
Franck Riboud succeeded his father, Antoine, as the company's chairman and chief executive officer in when Riboud senior retired. Under Riboud junior, the company continued to pursue its focus on three product groups dairy, beverages, and cereals and divested itself of several activities which had become non-core including Amora , Liebig , and Maille brands.
In , the company changed its name from Groupe Danone to Danone. In Danone spent Danone was to hold In Unimilk sales revenue was million euros. The Wockhardt group's nutrition activities in India were acquired by Danone in In mid-February Danone announced their intention to cut jobs or about 3.
