Danone North America

STōK Cold Brew is 'on the leading edge' of Danone North America’s growth strategy

05-Oct-2023 By Ryan Daily

STōK Cold Brew is tapping into the growing trend of at-home coffee shop experience with limited-time-offering flavors, as Danone North America makes the brand a crucial part of its growth strategy, company VP of ready-to-drink beverages Brittney Polka...

Americans are deeply concerned about food access, reveals Danone report

28-Jun-2023 By Ryan Daily

While economic and healthcare concerns remain a top priority for American consumers, they are increasingly citing access to healthy and nutritious food among their concerns, according to a recent Danone North America study.

Low sugar Greek yogurt Two Good now a $227m brand, Light & Fit back to growth, says Danone North America

13-Jan-2023 By Elaine Watson

Two Good – a low-sugar Greek yogurt with 2g sugar per cup launched by Danone in early 2019 - has been a leading contributor to dollar growth in the total yogurt category over the past three years, while a zero-sugar version of Light & Fit has also...

Danone’s International Delight creamer targets next generation of coffee drinkers with whimsical, nostalgic flavors and partnerships

13-Dec-2022 By Elizabeth Crawford

Danone North America, the maker of International Delight creamers, wants to entice the next generation of coffee drinkers who are just establishing their daily rituals with a line-up of flavors launching this holiday season and throughout the new year...

Will ‘carbon neutral’ claims land brands in legal hot water? Danone sued over Evian eco claims

18-Oct-2022 By Elaine Watson

Could ‘carbon neutral’ claims land food & beverage brands in legal hot water, even where they are certified by a third party such as the Carbon Trust? FoodNavigator-USA asked attorneys to weigh in after Danone Waters America found itself at the receiving...

Oikos continues to defy yogurt stereotypes with Super Bowl ad showing different kinds of strength

02-Feb-2022 By Elizabeth Crawford

With a long history of bucking the restrictive stereotypes of who eats yogurt and why through product innovation, positioning and marketing, Danone North America’s Oikos continues to challenge conventions with a Super Bowl ad and complementary activations...

Two Good Greek low-sugar yogurt brand is on fire, says Danone North America

10-Dec-2021 By Elaine Watson

Two Good Greek yogurt has become a $200m+ brand, and the #2 contributor to dollar growth in the total yogurt category, in its third year on the market, claims Danone North America.

Danone talks alt dairy, from ‘exciting’ animal-free proteins to ‘dairy-like’ technology in Silk NextMilk

21-Oct-2021 By Elaine Watson

A leading player in plant-based dairy with its Silk and So Delicious brands, Danone North America has made significant strides in improving the taste and texture of plant-based cheese, yogurt, and milk over the past 12 months, says chief research &...

How is Danone deploying ‘dairy-like’ technology in milk alternatives? Join us TODAY in part II of FoodNavigator-USA’s Disrupting the meat and dairy case broadcast series

13-Oct-2021 By Elaine Watson

Can we reverse engineer every dairy product and rebuild it with plants, molecule by molecule, or are there some applications such as yogurts or cheese where plants just don’t deliver the taste, functionality, or nutrition consumers are looking for?

Danone pulling plug on more than 80 US organic dairy farmers

31-Aug-2021 By Jim Cornall

More than 80 dairy farmers in the northeast of the US who sell milk to Horizon Organic, a part of Danone, will see their contracts end in August 2022.

More fruit, creamier taste, new look: Danone North America targets Millennials with refreshed Oikos blended line

17-Jun-2021 By Elaine Watson

Danone North America is refreshing its Oikos Greek yogurt blended line in a bid to revitalize flagging sales and appeal to a younger demographic, adding 50% more fruit, deploying new cultures for a creamier taste, and replacing its signature blue packaging...

Investing in the Future of Food

Danone: "There has been a massive shift in how consumers are shopping and their adoption of digital commerce is significant'

28-Apr-2021 By Elizabeth Crawford

With digital commerce sales accelerating during the pandemic and expected to climb from $35 billion to more than $250 billion by 2025, Danone North America is reallocating traditional marketing dollars to online in a bid to better drive consumer engagement...

Evian launches functional, flavored sparkling canned water with evian+

25-Mar-2021 By Rachel Arthur

Natural mineral water brand evian has launched evian+, a drink enriched with magnesium and zinc.

Danone North America CEO on plant-based trends, why soymilk is back in growth, and the Follow Your Heart deal

03-Mar-2021 By Elaine Watson

US retail sales of soymilk - which have declined precipitously over the past decade – have started to grow again, says Danone North America, which is spearheading the turnaround with its Silk brand, the leading player in the soymilk segment.

Follow Your Heart CEO on selling to Danone: ‘For us to maintain a leadership role, we needed to accelerate our growth’

03-Mar-2021 By Elaine Watson

Earth Island (Follow Your Heart) co-founder and CEO Bob Goldberg has always had an independent streak, telling reporters over the years he’s happy dancing to his own tune despite periodic overtures from big CPG suitors. Last month, however, he inked a...

Danone N.A. accepting applications for Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant

16-Dec-2020 By Stephen Daniells

In its ninth year, the 2020-2021 Danone North America Gut Microbiome, Yogurt and Probiotics Fellowship Grant will award two $25,000 grants to graduate students exploring links between the gut microbiome, probiotics and yogurt and human health and wellness.

Danone expands parental leave in US

03-Dec-2020 By Jim Cornall

Danone North America, the world’s largest Certified B Corp, has announced it is expanding its gender-neutral Parental Bonding Leave policy to its manufacturing employees, enabling them to take up to 18 weeks’ paid time off after the birth or adoption...

Danone and AI-powered startup Brightseed join forces to explore the ‘dark matter of nutrition’

10-Jun-2020 By Elaine Watson

Danone North America has teamed up with Brightseed – a San Francisco-based startup using AI to analyze hundreds of thousands of phytonutrients for potential health benefits – to probe key plant sources to identify “previously unknown health and nutrition...

New launches from Danone bank on sugar-reduction, plant-based, probiotics & healthier kids’ options

15-Dec-2019 By Elizabeth Crawford

With a new suite of dairy and non-dairy yogurt innovations unveiled last week and set to launch in 2020, Danone North America plans to build on the success it saw in the past decade, during which it captured a third of market share to become the category...

Where next for the US yogurt category? Chobani, Danone North America, General Mills, weigh in

21-Feb-2019 By Elaine Watson

US retail sales of yogurt fell -3.4% in the 52 weeks to January 26, 2019, but there have been some signs of recovery in recent weeks, with category sales in the 12 weeks to Jan 26 down a more modest -1.9%, according to the latest Nielsen data (all outlets...