# Daniel Carasso

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{{Short description|French businessman (1905–2009)}}
{{ infobox person
| name        = Daniel Carasso
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1905|12|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Salonica](/source/Salonica), [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2009|05|17|1905|12|16|df=yes}}
| death_place = [Neuilly-sur-Seine](/source/Neuilly-sur-Seine), [France](/source/French_Fifth_Republic)
| alma_mater  = [École supérieure de commerce de Marseille](/source/KEDGE_Business_School)<br>[Pasteur Institute](/source/Pasteur_Institute)
| parents     = [Isaac Carasso](/source/Isaac_Carasso)
}}

'''Daniel Carasso''' (December 16, 1905<ref>[http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2009/05/23/daniel-carasso-fondateur-de-danone_1197142_3382.html Daniel Carasso, fondateur de Danone.]</ref> – May 17, 2009)<ref name="nytimes-carasso">{{cite news|title=Daniel Carasso, a pioneer of yogurt, dies at 103|first=William|last=Grimes|date=May 20, 2009|accessdate=May 21, 2009|work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/business/21carasso.html?hpw|archive-date=July 13, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713053843/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/business/21carasso.html?hpw|url-status=live}}</ref> was a French member of the prominent [Sephardic Jewish](/source/Sephardi_Jews) [Carasso family](/source/Carasso_family) and the son of [Isaac Carasso](/source/Isaac_Carasso), founder of the (now) multinational [Danone](/source/Danone).

==Biography==
Carasso, son of [Isaac Carasso](/source/Isaac_Carasso), was born in [Salonica](/source/Thessalonika), [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire) (modern Thessaloniki, Greece), where his family had lived for four hundred years following [Spain's expulsion of its Jews](/source/Alhambra_Decree). In 1916, after the [Balkan Wars](/source/Balkan_Wars), the family moved to [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona).<ref name="nytimes-carasso" /> In 1919, Carasso's father began marketing a yogurt that he named 'Danone' after Daniel, whose nickname was Danon.<ref name="nytimes-carasso" />

In 1923, Carasso enrolled in business school in [Marseille](/source/Marseille), [France](/source/France), and studied [bacteriology](/source/bacteriology) at the [Pasteur Institute](/source/Pasteur_Institute).<ref name="nytimes-carasso" /> He took over the family business. In 1939, he opened a branch in France.

He settled in the [United States](/source/United_States) in 1941 after fleeing France when it was [invaded](/source/Battle_of_France) by the [Nazis](/source/Nazism).<ref name="nytimes-carasso" /> Carasso returned to France in 1951.<ref name="nytimes-carasso" />

==Death==

He died at his home in [Paris](/source/Paris) at the age of 103.<ref name="nytimes-carasso" />

==Dannon Yogurt==
In 1942, he formed a partnership with two family friends, Joe Metzger, a Swiss-born Spanish businessman, and his son Juan. They bought a small Greek yogurt company, Oxy-Gala, and founded Dannon Milk Products in [Bronx](/source/Bronx), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)).<ref name="nytimes-carasso" />
In 1947, Dannon added jam to its yogurt as a concession to American tastes and succeeded in growing sales to a broad market. He expanded the business into cheeses and other foodstuffs, and bought the American company from Beatrice Foods in 1981, changing the name to Groupe Danone.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/25/1005405/daniel-carasso-dannon-yogurt-namesake-dies |title=Daniel Carasso, Dannon yogurt namesake, dies |access-date=2011-04-08 |archive-date=2012-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609170949/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2009/05/25/1005405/daniel-carasso-dannon-yogurt-namesake-dies |url-status=live }}</ref>

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Category:20th-century French Sephardi Jews
Category:People who emigrated to escape Nazism
Category:Jews from Thessaloniki
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Category:Centenarians from the Ottoman Empire
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Category:Spanish emigrants to France
Category:French emigrants to the United States
Category:Groupe Danone people
Category:Immigrants to Spain
Category:Jewish centenarians

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