Danone S.A.
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Leadership History
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Danone is a health-focused food company rather than a broad packaged-food conglomerate. Its portfolio is concentrated in dairy and plant-based products, specialized nutrition, and waters.
Danone makes money by selling branded dairy and plant-based foods, infant nutrition, adult medical nutrition, bottled water, and functional beverages through retailers, pharmacies, hospitals, e-commerce, and foodservice channels.
Chief Executive Officer
Leads Renew Danone, with FY2025 like-for-like sales growth of 4.5%, recurring margin expansion to 13.4%, and continued focus on health categories.
Chief Executive Officer
Pushed the One Planet. One Health positioning and B Corp ambition before activist pressure led to a leadership change.
Chief Executive Officer
Expanded Danone globally and sharpened the portfolio around dairy, water, and nutrition.
CEO of BSN/Danone
Built the French food and beverage group that became Danone and embedded the dual economic and social project.
Founder
Founded Danone in Barcelona as a yogurt business rooted in digestive-health science.
Key risks include European private-label pressure, North America portfolio churn, China infant nutrition demographics, commodity costs, water regulation, currency effects, and competition in plant-based products.
Antoine de Saint-Affrique is CEO of Danone.
He became CEO in September 2021.
Leadership is focused on health categories, medical nutrition, dairy and plant-based momentum, waters, productivity, and margin expansion.
Emmanuel Faber was the prior CEO.