Daniel Carasso

Daniel Carasso (born December 16, 1905 in Thessaloniki , † May 17, 2009 in Paris ) was a French entrepreneur of Jewish - Sephardic origin. Daniel Carasso was a member of the Carasso family, son of Isaac Carasso , who founded the yoghurt manufacturer Danone , founded its American subsidiary Dannon Company and expanded Danone into a global corporation.

biography

Carassos family had for centuries in Thessaloniki in the Ottoman Empire lived, which now houses the Greek Thessaloniki. In 1912, after the Balkan Wars , the family emigrated to Barcelona . In 1919, Carasso's father began marketing a yogurt named after Daniel, whose Catalan nickname was Danon .

In 1923 Carasso went to Marseille , where he attended a business school, and later to Paris, where he studied bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute . In 1939 he took over the family business and founded a branch in France. In 1941 he was forced to flee from the National Socialist occupation and settled in the United States in New York .

In 1942 he formed a partnership with two family friends, Joseph Metzger, a Spanish businessman of Swiss descent, and his son Juan. They bought a small company called Oxy-Gala that made Greek yogurt and formed Dannon Milk Products based in the Bronx . Since 1947 he has been adding jam to his yogurt as a concession to the American taste and thereby managed to achieve larger sales figures in a broad market. The company later expanded to include other foods such as cheese and Danone became a leading global food manufacturer.

In 1951 Carasso returned to France. Carasso died at the age of 103 in his home in Paris.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Carasso, fondateur de Danone.
2. ^ ^{A b c d e f} William Grimes: Daniel Carasso, a pioneer of yogurt, dies at 103 . In: The New York Times , May 20, 2009. Retrieved May 21, 2009.