DANONE – FUTURE STRATEGY IN INDIA Background: Danone‚ a French company‚ is the world’s sixth largest packaged food company and the world’s leading dairy player. It believes in mergers and acquisitions in order to fuel its geographic and product-line expansion. It has positioned itself as a Health and Wellness company. It operates under four business divisions- • Fresh dairy products‚ • baby nutrition • water and • health nutrition Danone’s brand strategy has been focused on health
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product‚ you don’t know what is actually special‚ and it could really be used for a multitude of companies. Nonetheless‚ every single employee knows it by heart and comes across it every day. Welcome to Dannon. The world leader in fresh dairy products‚ Danone is the French parent company of the brand named Dannon in the United States. While mostly known to Americans for its extensive yogurt line‚ some more familiar with the company also recognize it for its line of waters‚ such as Evian and Volvic. There
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9-608-107 REV : APRIL 1 6 ‚ 2 0 0 8 ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ANE DAMGAARD JEN SEN Global Knowledge Management at Danone At Danone we don’t talk about strategy‚ we react to the context around us. For me‚ it’s like a Lego box that you buy for your children. They start to play‚ trying to find a way to build the image on the Lego box. At the end of the day‚ they give up‚ throw out the box‚ and put the pieces
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Grameen Danone Foods Muhama Yunus reinvented the world by giving the poor a way out of poverty through micro financing with Grameen Bank and improving the health of children with Grameen Foods. With the help of Grameen Group’s establishment‚ he was turned towards Danone‚ where he continued his venture of social entrepreneurship. The partnership between Grameen and Danone was crucial to the organization that was built. Just as Homeless World Cup and Nike partnered to give each other benefits
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Danone was founded in 1919 by Isaac Carasso in Spain. Groupe Danone is a world market leader in dairy products. The company has been successful in knowledge management through all level of business. The company created ways of transferring and sharing knowledge throughout the company and between employees from around the world as the company has implemented a concept called the “Networking Attitude”. As a global company‚ Donone had to face many challenges‚ such as building information to employees
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baby nutrition and all the group’s poles supported the growth. The turnover also increase in 2012. I’ve divided my report intro three parts with an introduction and a conclusion. In the first part I studied the global marketing strategy of Danone. Firstly at an international level‚ secondly at a local level with the exemple of its development in the United States. In the second part I made an external and internal analysis of the group . I used the SLEPTS analysis for the external environment
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appendices 21 ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION We have chosen the group DANONE because it is a world-famous leading French group‚ which is often recognised for its management leadership. DANONE is a food-products multinational corporation based in Paris. It is the world leader in fresh dairy products‚ 2nd in bottled water and baby food and European leader in clinical nutrition
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Corporate Strategy Project DANONE Danone is a Paris-based multinational company engaging in the production of food and drinks. With revenues of more than 17bn Euro and over 100 000 employees in around 80 countries worldwide‚ it considers itself to be the world leader in fresh dairy products and bottled water. The corporate history shows the enormous adaptation capacity of the company over time. Founded in 1919 in Barcelona and starting operations in France few years later‚ Danone moved to the United
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affair in China As of 2007‚ Danone‚ the French multinational food company‚ was in a fierce battle with China-based Wahaha Group (the largest beverage producer in China) to win control of their joint ventures (JVs) in China. The fight is reported to have started in 2005 when Danone uncovered some unusual financial figures at the JVs‚ but this did not become known to the public until 2007‚ when Danone and Wahaha Group failed to resolve their disputes on the selling price of Wahaha-related non-joint ventures
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Groupe Danone is a French consumer-goods company headquartered in Paris. The multinational operates in all five continents‚ 120 countries‚ employing 90‚000 people in four business lines: Fresh Dairy Products‚ Water and Beverages‚ Baby Food‚ and Clinical Nutrition. Its revenues in 2006 were 14 billion euros making it the third largest company in the sector only after Kraft and Nestle. The organizational structure at Groupe Danone is highly decentralized. The country Managing Directors are empowered
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