Editing Danone (section)

{{Short description|French multinational food corporation}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Danone S.A.
| logo = 
| logo_size = 
| trade_name = 
| former_names = Boussois-Souchon-Neuvesel (1966-1967)<br>BSN (1967-1973)<br>BSN-Gervais Danone (1973-1983)<br>BSN Groupe (1983-1994)
| predecessor = Gervais Danone
| image = Bd Haussmann, 17.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| image_caption = Danone head office in Paris, July 2010
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| traded_as = {{EuronextParis|BN|FR0000120644}}<br />[[CAC 40]] component
| foundation = '''Company:''' {{start date and age|1966}} (as Boussois-Souchon-Neuvesel)<br>'''Brand:''' {{start date and age|1919}}
| location = [[Boulevard Haussmann]] <br />[[9th arrondissement of Paris|9th arrondissement]], [[Paris]], France (Operational)<br />[[Hoofddorp]], [[Netherlands]] (Global)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aasarchitecture.com/2017/11/new-danone-netherlands-global-headquarters-powerhouse-company.html/ |title=New Danone Netherlands Global Headquarters by Powerhouse Company – aasarchitecture |access-date=25 February 2021 |archive-date=12 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512080138/https://aasarchitecture.com/2017/11/new-danone-netherlands-global-headquarters-powerhouse-company.html/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = [[Franck Riboud]] (honorary chairman)<br />[[Gilles Schnepp]] (chairman) <br /> [[Antoine Bernard de Saint-Affrique]] (CEO)
| industry = [[Food processing]]
| founder = [[Isaac Carasso]]
| products = {{hlist|[[Baby food]]|[[coffee]]|[[dairy products]]|[[dairy-free|dairy-free products]]|[[bottled water]]|[[dietary supplement]]s|[[protein supplement]]s<ref name="18PDF"/>}}
| brands = ''[[Danone#Main brands|Main brands]]''
| revenue = {{Increase}} [[Euro|€]]27.619&nbsp;billion (2023)<ref name="financials">{{cite web| url=https://www.danone.com/investor-relations/results-center.html| title = Annual Report 2023 | publisher=Danone S.A.| access-date =1 April 2023}}</ref>
| operating_income = {{Increase}} €3.481&nbsp;billion (2023)<ref name="financials"/>
| net_income = {{Decrease}} €881&nbsp;million (2023)<ref name="financials"/>
| assets = {{Decrease}} €44.486&nbsp;billion (2023)<ref name="financials"/>
| equity = {{Decrease}} €16.176&nbsp;billion (2023)<ref name="financials"/>
| num_employees = 96,000+ (2023)<ref name="financials"/>
| owners = {{plainlist|
* [[MFS Investment Management]] (8.3%)<ref name="simplywall.st">{{cite web|url=https://simplywall.st/stocks/fr/food-beverage-tobacco/epa-bn/danone-shares/news/what-kind-of-shareholder-owns-most-danone-s-a-epabn-stock|title = What Kind of Shareholder Owns Most Danone S.A. (EPA:BN) Stock?| date=28 January 2020 }}</ref>
}}
| subsid = [[WhiteWave Foods|Danone North America]]<ref name="18WhW">{{cite web|url=https://www.foodbev.com/news/danone-drops-whitewave-name-year-completing-merger/|title=Danone drops WhiteWave name a year after completing merger - FoodBev Media|website=Foodbev.com|date=12 April 2018|access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref>
| homepage = {{url|https://www.danone.com/|danone.com}}
}}
[[File:Danone spain.png|thumb|right|200px|Danone brand logo, used since 2004]]
'''Danone S.A.''' ({{IPA|fr|danɔn}}) is a French [[multinational corporation|multinational]] food-products [[corporation]] based in [[Paris]]. It was founded in 1919 in [[Barcelona|Barcelona, Spain]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://danone.ua/en/about-company/history/?no_cache=1 |title=Danone: History of Danone group |publisher=Danone.ua |date=1929-02-06 |access-date=2022-08-16}}</ref> It is listed on [[Euronext Paris]], where it is a component of the [[CAC 40]] [[stock market]] index. Some of the company's products are branded '''Dannon''' in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.danonenorthamerica.com/our-business/|title=Products & Services|website=Danone North America|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-08|archive-date=28 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728183420/https://www.danonenorthamerica.com/our-business/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As of 2018, Danone sold products in 120 markets, and, in 2018, had sales of €24.65&nbsp;billion.<ref name="18Danone">{{cite web|url=https://www.danone.com/about-danone.html|title=About Danone - Danone|date=25 May 2018|website=Danone.com|access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref> In the first half of 2018,<ref name="iar2017.danone.com">{{cite web|url=http://iar2017.danone.com/|title=Danone Integrated Annual Report: Home|website=iar2017.danone.com|access-date=2019-04-08|archive-date=21 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021232312/http://iar2017.danone.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 29% of sales came from specialized nutritional preparations, 19% came from branded bottled water, and 52% came from [[dairy]] and plant-based products (including [[yogurt]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.danone.com/about-danone/at-a-glance/danone-data.html|title=Danone's data & results - Danone|date=25 May 2018|website=Danone.com|access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref>