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Contents 1 Ambiguity 2 Etymology 3 Garble and some new information 4 Biscuits sale 5 Danone International Prize for Nutrition

[edit] Ambiguity

What does Barcelona have to do with the Balkans? That sentence doesn't make sense. --Joy [shallot] 15:06, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The sentence doesn't imply any connection other than that yogurt comes from the Balkans. There is ambiguity, though, in that the text doesn't say where Isaac was from, whether from Spain, the Balkans, or elsewhere (though the name may be Italian or Romanian). ~ 71.32.99.20 05:08, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Etymology

For a precise encyclopedia, do you think we can get a little more specific than that Dannon sounds more "American"...can we (I'm asking the linguists here) go so far as to say it sounds more Germanic/Anglo-Saxon (I use that term linguistically). Thanks ~ 71.32.99.20 05:08, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

It would be more accurate to say that "'Danone' was changed to 'Dannon' to Americanize the pronuniciation."

Yah, I agree. "Danone" in an eggs-over-easy American would be pronunced as "Day-none." So, "Dannon" might be used for the Americans to say "Danone" right. I'm just guessing here. -- 202.81.173.103 12:58, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Garble and some new information

The 4th paragraph has a garble concerning Soviet georgia. Looks like some words were dropped somewhere.

When Pepsi was interacting with Danone, some other facts appeared in French papers. I am not sure I am certain on all of these, but her they are:

The founder lived in Greece as a child and learned about yoghurt there.

Isaac Carasso lived in Ottoman Salonika, and left before the Greek armies took Salonika. See Isaac Carasso. --Macrakis 17:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Returning to Spain, he was the pioneer in industrial scale production of yoghurt.

He did not "return" to Spain. As a Sephardic Jew, his distant ancestors presumably came from Spain.

his departure from Spain was related to being on the wrong side fo the Spanish Civil War. --Macrakis 17:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

His departure from France to the US and restart there under the Dannon name was a result of his being Jewish and escaping from the Holocaust.

Danone later merge with a glass bottle maker and that family made it a world class company.

Could someone confirm these facts and work them in?

[edit] Biscuits sale

As of now, Kraft Foods is now in talks with Groupe Danone over buying its biscuits and cereals division. It was said that it will be both beneficial for the two companies, as Kraft can focus on snacks, while Danone can focus on health foods. The deal will be valued at $7.2 billion. I don't know how to put footnotes, so just Google it. -- 202.81.173.103 13:00, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Danone International Prize for Nutrition

It is common practice for corporations to promote the corporate brand in this way. Danone is a mass producer of processed foods which wants to be portrayed as a health-oriented company. What better way than to set up an institute for study into the beneficial effects of the types of food which it produces? We should not swallow the publicity about the independence of this establishment - it wears the Danone brand name, and the management knows on which side their bread is buttered. If it was truly independent of Danone, it would probably be called the "Antoine Riboud Institute International" or somesuch. There appear also to be few reliable and independent sources to support the content of the article, meaning it could well fail WP:A. I would contend that this is therefore an extension of Danone corporate communications, and the prize is a best case redirect to Danone Institute International, and a worst case redirect to Groupe Danone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohconfucius (talk • contribs) 23:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC)