DANONE

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DANONE

• Danone Company
• GROUPE DANONE
• Presentation made by Milos Selakovic

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• ABOUT GROUP COMPANY ...
• HISTORY...
• STRATEGY...
• BRANDS ...
• FINANCE ...
• RESEARCH AND
• DEVELOPMENT...
• VALUES ...

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About the Group and the Company

• The Danone Group, parent
• company of the Dannon
• Company, Inc., is the
• worldwide leader in water and
• fresh dairy products.
• The Dannon Company, Inc.,
• sells and produces six million
• cups of yogurt a day in
• almost 100 flavors, styles and
• sizes. The top-selling brand of
• yogurt worldwide, Dannon
• is sold under the names
• Dannon and Danone.

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• History
• Dannon was founded by Isaac Carasso in
• 1919.
• DANNON introduced yogurt with fruit on the bottom
  in
• 1947.
• The DANNON Institute, an independent, non-profit
• foundation dedicated to nutrition research, was
• founded in 1997.

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• Strategy
• Over the years, the
• Danone Group has
• taken strategic steps to
• achieve a global presence,
• focusing on three business
• lines with high potential built
• on health and vitality dairy
• products, biscuits and water.

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• BRANDS AND PRODUCTS
• Dairy products

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DANONE

• BRANDS AND PRODUCTS
• Biscuits

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DANONE

• BRANDS AND PRODUCTS
• Bottled water

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DANONE
Figures by business line and geographical area
for the first 9 months 2004 are as follows
                                                  
                      
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• Research and Development
• To support those who are researching how food and
• nutrition can be used to improve health and fight
  
• disease, the Dannon Institute funds
  interdisciplinary
• fellowships and sabbaticals. Researchers funded
  by the
• Dannon Institute work in respected universities
  with
• nutritional scientists and researchers from other
  disciplines.
• Together, they learn how nutrition impacts
  society, fights or
• prevents disease and helps people live longer,
  healthier lives.

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• Values
• The Danone Groupe and The Dannon Company are
  committed
• to being socially responsible companies and good
  corporate
• citizens.
• The Dannon Company, Inc., conducts business in a
  manner
• that offers maximum protection to our
  environment. Our goal
• for each facility is to protect water, air and
  soil. To this end,
• environmental objectives and targets for
  improvement are
• continually being identified and pursued.

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DANONE.....

• FOR YOU...
• The date stamped on each DANNON
• container that we manufacture is your
• guarantee of freshness.