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Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905^[1] – May 17, 2009)^[2] was a French member of the prominent Sephardic JewishCarasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone.

Biography

Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (modern Thessaloniki, Greece), where his family had lived for four hundred years following Spain's expulsion of its Jews. In 1916, after the Balkan Wars, the family moved to Barcelona.^[2] In 1919, Carasso's father began marketing a yogurt that he named 'Danone' after Daniel, whose nickname was Danon.^[2]

In 1923, Carasso enrolled in business school in Marseille, France, and studied bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute.^[2] He took over the family business. In 1939, he opened a branch in France.

He settled in the United States in 1941 after fleeing France when it was invaded by the Nazis.^[2] Carasso returned to France in 1 French food products daniel carasso biography children.