Editing Danone (section)

===Dairy-focused business (2010–present)===
In 2009, the company changed its name from Groupe Danone to Danone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eurexchange.com/exchange-en/resources/circulars/groupe-danone--name-change/243908|title=Eurex Exchange - Groupe Danone: Name Change|website=Eurexchange.com|access-date=22 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814232719/https://www.eurexchange.com/exchange-en/resources/circulars/groupe-danone--name-change/243908|archive-date=14 August 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2007 Danone spent 12.3 billion euros on the purchase of the baby and medical nutrition business of Dutch rival [[Numico]].<ref name=rtr1/>

In 2010 Danone plunged into the Russian market by acquiring OAO Unimilk's companies.<ref name=unimilk>{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-06-18/danone-merges-russian-dairy-unit-with-unimilk-to-triple-sales-in-region|publisher=Bloomberg|title = Danone Merges Russian Dairy Business With Unimilk|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|date=18 June 2010|access-date =18 June 2010}}</ref> The share of Unimilk was 21% of the Russian market. Danone was to hold 57.5 percent of the capital; it funded the acquisition by writing put options for Unimilk share owners. In 2009 Unimilk sales revenue was 969 million euros. As of the merger, Unimilk had 28 facilities in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus,<ref name="rtr1">{{cite news |title=Danone secures Russia expansion with Unimilk deal |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65H27A/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |work=Reuters}}</ref> and Kazakhstan. The united Danone-Unimilk company had 18,000 employees in the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]].<ref name="di1">{{cite news |url=https://www.dairyindustries.com/news/600/danone-and-unimilk-join-forces-in-russia/ |title=Danone and Unimilk join forces in Russia }}</ref>

The [[Wockhardt]] group's nutrition activities in India were acquired by Danone in 2012.<ref name=wsj>{{cite news | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/dealjournalindia/2012/07/26/wockhardt-closes-deal-to-sell-nutrition-business-to-danone/|work=The Wall Street Journal|title = Wockhardt Closes Deal to Sell Nutrition Business to Danone|access-date =26 June 2012}}</ref>

In mid-February 2013 Danone announced their intention to cut 900 jobs or about 3.3 percent of their 27,000 person European workforce.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://prod-euronews.euronews.net/2013/02/19/danone-cuts-european-jobs-on-weak-demand/ |title=Danone cuts European jobs on weak demand |website=Prod-euronews.wuronews.net |date=19 February 2013 |access-date=21 February 2013 |archive-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522225040/http://prod-euronews.euronews.net/2013/02/19/danone-cuts-european-jobs-on-weak-demand// |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Since 2013, Danone has grown on the African continent, notably with the acquisition of a controlling interest in Centrale Danone in Morocco and equity interests in Fan Milk in West Africa and Brookside in Kenya.

In 2014, [[Emmanuel Faber]] became CEO.<ref name="18PDF">{{cite web|url=https://www.danone.com/content/dam/danone-corp/about-us-impact/publications/en/2018/Danone-RA2017-EN-PDF-e-accessible_03.pdf|title=Danone Annual Report 2017|website=Danone.com|access-date=22 October 2018}}</ref>

[[File:World locations of Danone Group factories.svg|thumb|300px|Global locations of Danone factories]]

Danone was present in 130 markets and generated sales of US$25.7&nbsp;billion in 2016, with more than half in developing countries. In 2015, fresh [[Dairy product|dairy products]] represented 50% of the group's total sales, baby food 22%, branded water 21%, and medical nutrition 7%.<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.danone.com/uploads/tx_bidanonepublications/Danone_FY_2015_Results_UK_02.pdf|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160315225618/http://www.danone.com/uploads/tx_bidanonepublications/Danone_FY_2015_Results_UK_02.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date =2016-03-15|title =Press release – February 23, 2016}}</ref> In 2017, [[Franck Riboud]] became honorary chairman and Faber became chairman as well as retaining his CEO position.<ref name="18PDF" />

In 2018, Danone rebranded its DanoneWave subsidiary, formed after the 2017 acquisition of [[WhiteWave Foods]] ([[Alpro]]), into Danone North America.<ref name="18WhW"/>

In 2020, Danone announced that It would cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of a reorganization. This amounted to about 2% of its workforce.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Danone to cut up to 2,000 jobs in reorganisation|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/danone-to-cut-up-to-2-000-jobs-in-reorganisation-1.4416725|access-date=2020-11-23|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>

In late 2020, the entry of the London-based [[hedge fund]] Bluebell Capital as a shareholder of Danone put Faber’s position into question. In a letter sent to all shareholders in November 2020, they qualified Danone's stock market performance under Faber of overall "disappointing", arguing that "the right balance between shareholder value creation and sustainability issues" had not been struck under his tenure.<ref>{{cite news|author=Leila Abboud|title= Activist fund Bluebell Capital takes aim at Danone|work=[[The Financial Times]]|url= https://www.ft.com/content/2df158fb-357a-499a-b51c-025b4f1d5c97 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/2df158fb-357a-499a-b51c-025b4f1d5c97 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|date=18 January 2021|access-date=30 May 2021}}</ref> After the publication of only slightly comforting 2020 results and disappointing first trimester turnover figures, Bluebell Capital's activism paid off and Faber was ousted in mid-March 2021.<ref>{{cite news|author=Leila Abboud|title= Danone board ousts Emmanuel Faber as chief and chairman|work=[[The Financial Times]]|url=  https://www.ft.com/content/8e7ae718-eb18-4d2f-bd18-59e6349540f2 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/8e7ae718-eb18-4d2f-bd18-59e6349540f2 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription|date=15 March 2021|access-date=30 May 2021}}</ref>

On May 16, 2021, the arrival of [[Antoine Bernard de Saint-Affrique]] as the next CEO of Danone was announced, to be effective on September 15.<ref>{{cite news|author= Dominique Vidalon|title= Danone names Barry Callebaut's Saint-Affrique as new CEO|work=[[Reuters]]|url=  https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/danone-names-barry-callebauts-saint-affrique-new-ceo-2021-05-17/|date=17 May 2021|access-date=30 May 2021}}</ref>

In 2023, Danone Manifesto Ventures, the venture-capital arm of Danone invests in Israel cell-based dairy and infant-milk producer Wilk.

In July 2023 after the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] had put multinational businesses in a delicate position, Russia seized control of Danone Rossiye, putting it under "temporary management" of the state.<ref name="bbc1">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66218999 |title=Russia seizes control of Danone and Carlsberg operations |date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> In February 2024 it was rumoured that [[Ramzan Kadyrov]] or his nephew [[Yakub Zakriev]] would take over the unit,<ref name="ft1">{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/6c1c5fe0-5a98-4d67-acfb-caf482e109cf |title=Danone plans to sell Russian operations to Chechnya-linked businessman }}</ref> for under $200 million.<ref name=rtr2/> On 13 March [[Vladimir Putin]] decreed the removal of the temporary management order;<ref name="ft2">{{cite news |url=https://www.ft.com/content/6c1c5fe0-5a98-4d67-acfb-caf482e109cf |title=Danone plans to sell Russian operations to Chechnya-linked businessman }}</ref><ref name="rtr2">{{cite news |title=Putin removes Danone's Russian unit from temporary state management |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/putin-excludes-danones-assets-russia-list-placed-under-temporary-management-2024-03-13/ |access-date=2024-03-20 |work=Reuters}}</ref> this opened the way for a sale of the unit.<ref name="bbg1">{{cite news |title=Putin Halts Danone Russia Seizure, Clearing Way for Sale |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-13/putin-halts-seizure-of-russian-business-of-france-s-danone |access-date=2024-03-20 |work=Bloomberg}}</ref>