Dannon USA, a unit of Groupe Danone of Paris, turned to consumers in August 2003.
Danone is only using the enzyme in its Bangladesh yogurt, but could eventually use it elsewhere.
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France's Groupe Danone SA has sold drinkable yogurt in the U.S. for more than six years.
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Unilever and Danone offer potential for gains because they are trading at lower multiples.
When Danone made its investment, Wahaha says it knew little about business and welcomed a partner.
Those benefiting from this reduced competition could include Group Danone, Philip Morris, Nabisco and Kraft Suchard.
And Danone added 1.9% after its underlying net profit was broadly in line with analysts' expectations.
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Grameen Danone Foods, a yogurt-maker, and Grameen-Veolia, a water company, are joint ventures with French giants.
Several companies, including France's Danone, reportedly put planned investments on hold after Mr Khodorkovsky's arrest.
Danone's rival product, Actimel, launched with a more aggressive marketing push, is doing much better.
Between 2009 and 2011, Danone reformulated 20% of their products to reduce fat, salt and sugar.
Yunus and Grameen are well-known brands, especially in the developing world, where Danone does 45% of its business.
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Three from France are Pechiney (25, PY, www.pechiney.com), Alstom (23, ALS, www.alstom.com) and Groupe Danone (35, DA, www.danonegroup.com).
Danone jettisoned less healthy products to focus solely on nutritious ones such as bottled water and infant formula.
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The joint venture with Grameen helps Danone to expand in places like Bangladesh.
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Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Danone and Colgate-Palmolive earned some of the best regional scores there.
He would like to turn Parmalat into an Italian version of France's Danone.
The goal for Ciel is to double sales by 2020 and overtake Danone.
Finally, we come to French food and dairy products company Danone (DANOY) .
The company, which makes Dasani bottled water, is strengthening its position by agreeing to market France's Evian and Danone here.
In 2006 Danone and Grameen Bank started a joint venture in Bangladesh, where Grameen had been operating for 23 years.
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Merenstein just finished a 638-child, Danone-funded study that showed DanActive, another yogurt drink, reduced infections by 19% in young kids.
Danone, a French food firm, delivers its yogurts and other delectables twice a week to 8, 500 outlets in South Africa.
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Danone ranks 1st or 2nd in most regions in which it operates for both fresh dairy products and infant nutrition.
Danone also has a 70 million-euro money market fund, called Danone Communities, which it seeded with 20 million euros in 2006.
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Danone is also increasing production and supplies of its brands that are already available in China, in order to meet demand there.
Nutricia is a unit of the international food giant Danone (Dannon in the United States), for which Wurtman is also a consultant.
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Given its perceived safety, Danone is a little more expensive than the other stocks reviewed, trading for 16 times expected 2013 earnings.
DanActive contains particular strains created by Danone to survive in the gut.
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