Isaac Carasso
Isaac Carasso | |
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| Born | 1874 Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | April 19, 1939 (aged 64–65) |
| Nationality | Spanish, French, Turkish |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Founder of Danone |
| Children | Daniel Carasso |
| Relatives | Emmanuel Carasso (uncle) |
Isaac Carasso (1874 – 19 April 1939) was a member of the prominent
Sephardic Jewish Carasso (Karasu) family of Ottoman Salonica (modern Thessaloniki, Greece). After emigrating to Barcelona, he started a yogurt factory which later became Groupe Danone
.
Biography
Carasso was born in
Salonica in 1874. In 1916, after the Balkan Wars, he moved his family to Barcelona
.
He noticed that many young children suffered from digestive and intestinal problems. Inspired by the work of
Institut Pasteur.[2]
Since yogurt was not well known then in Western Europe, he initially sold it as a medicine, through pharmacies.
In 1919, he founded the company which would later become
Groupe Danone in Barcelona 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
Dannon).[4]
Carasso died in France in 1939.
References
- ISBN 0-8138-2750-7
- ^ Dannon Web site Archived 2007-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
- New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-10-25.