Who started a yogurt factory which later became Groupe Danone?

Isaac Carasso (1874 – April 19, 1939) was a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family (Karasu) of Ottoman Salonica (modern Thessaloniki, Greece). After emigrating to Barcelona, he started a yogurt factory which later became Groupe Danone.

Danone S.A. is a French multinational food-products corporation based in Paris and founded in Barcelona, Spain. The company 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.