Danone is a multinational food company headquartered in Paris, France and established in Barcelona, Spain. It is a Fortune 500 company. Danone's business covers 120 countries and regions, with 190+ factories and 65,438+10,000+employees.
The company was founded in Barcelona in 19 19 by Isaac carazo, and its name comes from the nickname of Daniel, the son of the founder. Ten years later, Danone opened its first factory in France. Carazo moved his company to new york during World War II. 1958, Danone returned to France and set up its headquarters in Paris, which has continued to this day.
On July 3, 2007, the biscuit business was sold to Kraft. Danone cookies, which I used to eat when I was a child, are gone now. )
On July 9, 2007, Royal Numico NV, the largest baby food factory in the world, was acquired.
On September 30, 2009, an agreement was reached with Wahaha on the equity of their joint venture company, and Danone was able to sell its 5 1% equity of the joint venture company to Wahaha.
* Note: Danone and Wahaha established five joint ventures on 1996, with Danone holding 5 1%. At that time, both parties agreed that China could not operate and produce products that competed with the joint venture. After that, Wahaha set up dozens of food companies all over the country, with assets and income far exceeding those of joint ventures. After Danone failed to acquire 5 1% equity of these food companies, the contradiction between Danone and Wahaha became public. Danone applied to the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in Sweden for arbitration in 2007, and Wahaha also applied for arbitration in China. In the end, Wahaha recovered the equity previously controlled by Danone. *
20 10 On July 28th, Danone Asia transferred its 22.98% share of Huiyuan Juice to Safran Asia Investment Fund Management Company.
On May 20th, 20 13, COFCO and Danone, the largest shareholders of Mengniu Dairy, will respectively own 5 1% and 49% of Genda's shares and transfer 8.3% of Mengniu's shares (Danone indirectly holds 4. 1% of Mengniu's shares). After the completion, COFCO continued to hold about 27.83% of Mengniu's shares and remained the single largest shareholder.
On February 2, 20 15, 15 sold all the shares of Dumex China (including trademark license and patent license) to Yashili.
On July 8, 20 16, it acquired WhiteWave Foods, an American organic food company.
On July 4th, 20 17, the American dairy business Stonyfield was sold to Lactalis.
DanoneWave, a subsidiary established after the acquisition of WhiteWave Foods (Alpro) in 2065438+08 and 2065438+07, was injected into Danone North America.