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UK food and drink manufacturers to publish healthy food sales data from 2027
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Danone’s £864m Huel acquisition cleared by UK competition watchdog
The UK Competitions and Markets Authority has today (20 August 2026) cleared Danone’s £864 million acquisition of plant-based nutrition brand Huel.
Nestlé and Danone under investigation in Austria following infant formula contamination recalls
Nestlé and Danone are under investigation by prosecutors in Austria over the major recalls of several infant formula products due to cereulide contamination earlier this year.
Groupe Danone is a multinational food company based in Paris, France.
It holds strong positions in the global fresh dairy products market as well as the bottled water market through Danone Waters. Its brands include Actimel and Activia, Oikos, Evian and Volvic.
In the US, the Danone brand is marketed as Dannon under Danone North America, a subsidiary of the French-based company. It was briefly called DanoneWave following its merger with plant-based food company WhiteWave Foods, from which it inherited brands such as Silk and Alpro and which completed in April 2017.
The original company known as Danone was founded in 1919 by Isaac Carasso in Barcelona as a small factory producing yogurt. The factory was named Danone, a Catalan diminutive of the name of his first son, Daniel Carasso. Ten years later, the company moved from Spain to France, and the first French factory was built.
Today it is one of the world’s largest food manufacturers and a leader in both dairy and dairy alternatives, turning over close to €30 billion a year.
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