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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Danone lifts dividend as turnaround starts to pay off

    French food group’s sales return to higher volume in fourth quarter

    Danone products on a shelf in a shop
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Danone plans to sell Russian operations to Chechnya-linked businessman

    Move comes seven months after Putin ordered seizure of French food group’s local operations

    Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov and Danone strawberry yoghurt
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Western business, the Kremlin and the war
    Danone’s Chechen takeover: inside a Russian expropriation

    Business handed to warlord’s nephew has retained much of the French dairy group’s previous management

    Yakub Zakriyev
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    LexWar in Ukraine
    Danone/Carlsberg: expropriation escalates Russia’s war on business Premium content

    The companies could take legal action but neither has much chance of a payout

  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Russian business & finance
    Kremlin oligarchs eye Carlsberg assets as Kadyrov ally takes over Danone unit

    Fear for western subsidiaries in Russia after Moscow hands food group to Chechen minister and Kovalchuks vie for Baltika

    A worker checks an automated labelling machine at the Baltika Breweries plant in St Petersburg
  • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
    Russian business & finance
    Moscow seizes Russian subsidiaries of Danone and Carlsberg’s Baltika

    First such move against western businesses since takeovers of Finland’s Fortum and Germany’s Uniper in April

    Plastic bottles of Activia prune flavored yoghurt pass along a conveyor belt on the production line in the Danone SA dairy product manufacturing plant in Lyubuchany, Russia
  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    Danone expects to continue raising prices this year

    French yoghurt maker’s volumes fall as it trims product ranges as part of turnround strategy

    Danone products
  • Saturday, 21 January, 2023
    Lex
    Danone: chewing the cud over methane emissions  Premium content

    French dairy group’s reduction pledge should make a significant contribution to climate goals

    Cows leave the stable at a farm in Conteville
  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
    Danone lawsuit could be test case for new war on plastics

    Three environmental groups are suing the producer of Evian water and Activia yoghurt

    Bottles of Evian water
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Danone looks to offload Russian dairy and yoghurt business

    French consumer group faces write-off of up to €1bn for unit that includes 13 factories

    An elderly customer browses dairy products, including Danone Actimel drinks, in a supermarket in Moscow
  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Danone chief defends staying in Russia as he sets out strategy

    Head of French group rules out major disposals and says company has ‘a responsibility to the people we feed’

    Antoine de Saint-Affrique
  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    Agritech
    Ousted Danone chief Emmanuel Faber joins agritech VC Astanor

    Portfolio of sustainability champion’s new firm includes insect protein and vertical farming

    Emmanuel Faber
  • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
    Behind the Money podcast22 min listen
    Inside ESG: can businesses really marry profit and purpose?

    Danone and the good corporate citizen

  • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
    Danone’s new chief faces tough turnround task

    Main challenge is not cost cutting but generating more revenue growth

    A Volvic mineral water plant
  • Monday, 17 May, 2021
    Danone picks Antoine de Saint-Affrique as new chief executive

    French consumer goods group looks to move beyond boardroom power struggle

    Antoine de Saint-Affrique
  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    Emmanuel Faber
    Former Danone chief says power struggle was behind his ousting

    Emmanuel Faber points to ‘previous leaders’ wanting ‘to regain more clout’

    Emmanuel Faber, former Danone chief executive
  • Thursday, 22 April, 2021
    LexNestlé S.A.
    Nestlé: on a higher shelf than Danone Premium content

    Portfolio mix explains part of the food duo’s diverging performance

    Jars of Nescafe Gold coffee, produced by Nestlé
  • Sunday, 4 April, 2021
    John Plender
    Stakeholder capitalism must find ways to hold management to account

    The prevailing commitment to short-termist shareholder value has undermined corporate resilience

  • Wednesday, 24 March, 2021
    News in-depthHedge funds
    The little-known activist fund that helped topple Danone’s CEO

    Bluebell Capital runs just €70m in assets but has big targets in its sights

  • Sunday, 21 March, 2021
    Pilita Clark
    What the oddly uplifting Covid jab says about business life

    Few companies can easily offer meaning and purpose at work but that should not stop them from trying

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    John Gapper
    Bottled water should be a luxury, not a necessity

    The profits of brands such as Evian and Perrier can pay for environmental offsets

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Danone: a case study in the pitfalls of purpose

    CEO’s departure shows need to marry sustainability with profitability

    Portrait of Emmanuel Faber
  • Wednesday, 17 March, 2021
    The fall from favour of Danone’s purpose-driven chief

    Ousting of Emmanuel Faber underlines challenge of pursing profits and ESG goals

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    Due Diligence
    Culture wars: Danone board sours on CEO after activist pressure Premium content

    Emmanuel Faber’s ouster exposes the fine line between progressivism and appeasing shareholders

  • Monday, 15 March, 2021
    Lex
    Danone: interim management with a mission Premium content

    The French yoghurt maker’s new boss will have much to unpick

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