Case Study: The Dannon Company Teresa P. Cambare Southern New Hampshire University OL-690 X3474 Responsible Corp Leadership Term [pic] 13TW3 Case Study: The Dannon Company The Dannon Company is a subsidiary of Danone whose heritage dates back to 1919 and founded by Isaac Carasso in Spain. When Carasso immigrated into the United States in 1942‚ he established Dannon Milk Products‚ Inc. in New York‚ changing Danone into “Dannon” to make the name sound more American
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Steven Wallace Case Study #3: The Dannon Company Southern New Hamphire University Due May 19‚ 2013 Introduction Danone‚ Dannon’s parent company‚ was one of the largest health-focused food companies in the world. Danone traced its heritage back to 1919 in Barcelona‚ Spain‚ when Isaac Carasso wanted to create yogurt with inherent health benefits. Through the years and different lines of succession‚ Danone continued to grow‚ but never lost its core vision of providing
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Dannon Case Study Analysis 2013 Dannon Case Study Analysis 2013 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 PROBLEM STATEMENT 3 DATA ANALYSIS 3 KEY DECISION CRITERIA 4 ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS 4 RECOMMENDATIONS 6 ACTION AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 8 Executive Summary In 2007 and 2008‚ Dannon‚ the #2 yogurt provider‚ was losing valuable market share to its top competitor Yoplait. Despite the growth opportunity in the domestic U.S. yogurt
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Dannon Company has a trademark of Activia in its products. One of its products is the Light and Fit yoghurt. The light and fit comes in variety of flavors‚ raspberry‚ banana and strawberry just to name a few‚ with no artificial color and a natural touch. This product is advertised to be multi- functional with its great works with women’s gastrointestinal hygiene and beauty. The product is said to bring about what people want from any food supply. The company is mostly targeting young ladies‚ middle
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The Dannon Company is a multinational company with operations in over 30 different countries‚ and is one of the largest health food companies in the world. The firm cooperate headquarters is located in White Planes NY‚ and has 1‚150 employees which are spread out at one of Dannons three plants located in Ohio‚ Texas‚ and Utah. As of 2009 the Dannon company was in the lead to become the largest domestic seller of yogurt and nutritional products in the US. Dannon was ranked #1 worldwide with bottled
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Dannon Case Analysis Michael Kuehne 3/23/13 Managerial Communications The Dannon Company is one of the oldest and most recognized yogurt manufactures in the US market. Many Americans growing up the strange appearance‚ smell and mouth feel of the yogurt in that white and blue cup. The Dannon Company‚ Inc.‚ has its roots in Spain‚ where Danone was founded by Isaac Carasso in 1919. Having previously lived in the Balkans where yogurt was a dietary staple‚ Carasso decided to introduce this healthy
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Baltic Journal of Management‚ Vol. 7 Iss 1 pp. 49 - 67 1.2 Introduction This article shows that the positive contribution of CSR to the internal staff. It was found that the reason for encouraging the employees motivation is corporate social responsibility. 1.3 Aims and Research Methods In the survey‚ 274 staff come from the largest company of Lithuania to undertook the CSR events. The research hypotheses were tested using correlation and regression analysis using factor scores from a principal
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1996). History of CSR Social and environmental reporting has grown substantially since the early 1965s. According to study of CSR Sustainability Framework (CSR Quest‚ 2004)‚ the history of the CSR can be consist of 3 phases which can be illustrated by such a diagram below with issues developed in each phase Diagram 1.1 (Source: CSR Quest‚ 2004) As a result‚ nowadays‚ the findings pointed out by Peter Utting (2005) revealed that more than 80% of the fortune-500 companies had CSR reporting on their
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Analysis of CSR in a case of "Gazprom" 3.1. A Brief presentation of the company and Russian CSR concept The trend of taking into consideration the elements of CSR in Russia could be compared with the Soviet times‚ when all the companies tried to establish only the CSR programs in a social and cultural environment. The Russian companies see CSR programs focusing only on the group of stakeholders and especially on internal environment-on the workers and mostly all the companies follow as
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(Bomannahalli) 2. Do you practice CSR in your Company? Yes No 5 0 100% 0% If Yes‚ When did you started practicing CSR? 1990 2000 2009 for long From last 3-4 years 3. Which CSR Initiatives do you follow? Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP) Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) Ethical Trade Initiate (ETI) Fair Labor Association (FLA) Social Accountability International (SAI) Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) Other 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 17% 0% 0% 17% 17% 0% 50% 4. Which CSR practices are most commonly followed
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