France's Danone (nyse: DA - news - people), a bottled water and yogurt maker, flirted with acquiring Quaker, but it too pulled back.

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As a yogurt maker, I want to emphasize that yogurt can be a great addition to the diet to help meet the recommended three servings of low fat and fat free dairy.

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Grameen Danone Foods, a yogurt-maker, and Grameen-Veolia, a water company, are joint ventures with French giants.

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One can even claim (as France did recently) that a yogurt-maker is a national champion.

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The latest loser is the French multinational Danone, maker of Dannon yogurt, which recently withdrew its application for yogurt health claims that it had been making for years.

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Hamdi Ulukaya, who is new to the Forbes Billionaires list, is the founder, president and CEO of Chobani Inc, formerly Agro Farma, the maker of Chobani Greek yogurt.

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