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Isaac Carasso

Who

Isaac Carasso · Economics & Business

What

Founder of Danone (1919), pioneering industrial yogurt production. Sephardic Jewish family from Thessaloniki.

When

1874, Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) — 1939, Paris, France

Where

Ottoman Empire · Spain · France

Biography

Isaac Carasso is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founder of Danone (1919), pioneering industrial yogurt production. Sephardic Jewish family from Thessaloniki.

How & why

Isaac Carasso was a Sephardic Jew from Salonika who founded the yogurt company Danone in Barcelona in 1919, naming it after his son Daniel ('Danon'). Having seen children suffer from intestinal ailments, he industrialized yogurt production using Bulgarian ferments studied at the Pasteur Institute, first selling it in pharmacies as a health product. His firm grew into one of the world's largest food companies. He belonged to the Sephardic Jewish community of Thessaloniki.

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Founder of Danone (1919), pioneering industrial yogurt production. Sephardic Jewish family from Thessaloniki.

1919

Source: Wikipedia