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Isaac Carasso (1874- April 19, 1939) was a doctor and member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family of Ottoman Selanik (modern Thessaloniki, Greece). He went on to found a yoghurt factory which became Groupe Danone. He was the nephew of Emanuel Karasu, the Ottoman politician.

Carasso was born in Selanik in 1874. In 1912, with the unrest of the Balkan Wars and the approach of Greek troops, he moved his family to Barcelona, Spain, where he changed his name to Isaac Carasso.

After setting up his medical facility, he noticed that he had many young patients with digestive and intestinal problems. Inspired by the work of Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, who had popularized sour milk as a health food, and recalling that such health conditions were treated with yogurt in the Balkans, he imported cultures from Bulgaria[1] or used "pure cultures that had been isolated in Paris" at Mechnikov's laboratory at the Institut Pasteur[2]. Since yogurt was not well-known then in Western Europe, he initially sold it as a medicine, through pharmacies.

He founded the company which would become Groupe Danone in 1919 when he opened a small yogurt business named "Danone", a variation on the Catalan nickname of his son, Daniel. Carasso perfected the first industrial process for making yogurt.[3]

His son Daniel Carasso took over the family business in Spain and established Danone in France and the United States (Dannon).

Isaac Carasso died in France in 1939.

References

1. ^ according to Kenneth W. Bailey, Marketing and Pricing of Milk and Dairy Products in the United States, Blackwell 1997, ISBN 0-813-82750-7
2. ^ according to the Dannon Web site
3. ^ New York Times article on Danone
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Sephardi Jews (Hebrew: ספרדי, Standard Səfardi Tiberian Səp̄arədî; plural ספרדים, Standard
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The Carasso family (also spelled Karasu, Karaso, Karassu and Karasso) was a prominent Sephardic Jewish family in Ottoman Selanik (modern Thessaloniki, Greece).
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Ottoman Empire or Ottoman Caliphate (1299 to 1922) (Old Ottoman Turkish: دولت عالیه عثمانیه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish:
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Yoghurt or yogurt, or less commonly yoghourt or yogourt (see spelling below), is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. Fermentation of the milk sugar (lactose) produces lactic acid, which acts on milk protein to give yoghurt its
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Groupe Danone S.A.

public Euronext: BN , NYSE:  DA
Founded 1919
Headquarters 7, Rue de Téhéran, Paris, France

Key people Franck Riboud, Chairman & CEO Jacques Vincent, Vice-Chairman & COO
Industry Food
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Emmanuel Carasso or Emanuel Karasu (Salonica, 1862 - Trieste, 1934) was a lawyer and a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family of Ottoman Salonica (now Thessaloniki, Greece). He was a prominent member of the Young Turks.
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Greece:Crown Prince Constantine, Panagiotis Danglis, Pavlos Kountouriotis

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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos  
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"Plus Ultra"   (Latin)
"Further Beyond"
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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov

Born May 16, 1845

Died July 16 1916 (aged 71)

Field Microbiologist
Institutions Odessa University
Alma mater Kharkiv University
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Yoghurt or yogurt, or less commonly yoghourt or yogourt (see spelling below), is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. Fermentation of the milk sugar (lactose) produces lactic acid, which acts on milk protein to give yoghurt its
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Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of southeastern Europe. The region has a combined area of 550,000 km² and an approximate population of 55 million people.
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The Pasteur Institute (French: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, microorganisms, diseases and vaccines.
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Groupe Danone S.A.

public Euronext: BN , NYSE:  DA
Founded 1919
Headquarters 7, Rue de Téhéran, Paris, France

Key people Franck Riboud, Chairman & CEO Jacques Vincent, Vice-Chairman & COO
Industry Food
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In Spain: Catalonia, Valencian Community, Balearic Islands, Aragon (in La Franja), Murcia (in El Carxe). In France: Northern Catalonia. In Italy: The city of L'Alguer. In Andorra.
Total speakers: 9.
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Daniel Carasso, a member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founded the United States Dannon company and built up the Groupe Danone into a multinational business.
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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"La Marseillaise"


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"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Groupe Danone S.A.

public Euronext: BN , NYSE:  DA
Founded 1919
Headquarters 7, Rue de Téhéran, Paris, France

Key people Franck Riboud, Chairman & CEO Jacques Vincent, Vice-Chairman & COO
Industry Food
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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