
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
Born: 1919
Founder of the Danone yoghurt Company (Dannon in US)Born in Thessaloniki, Greece
Isaac Carasso was an olive oil merchant of Jewish Greek origin. He founded The Dannon Company in 1919. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece where yogurt was a dietary staple, Carasso decided to introduce this healthy product to Barcelona. He opened a small yogurt business name "Danone", which means "Little Daniel", after his son.
Carasso, who spend his early years in what is now modern Greece, perfected the first industrial process for making yogurt, mixing modern science with traditional Greek recipes.
Daniel Carasso took over the family business in Spain and established Danone in France in 1929. During World War II Daniel Carasso immigrated to the United States and in 1942 founded the first American yogurt company. The younger Carasso Americanized the name to Dannon Milk Products, Inc., in the Bronx, NY.
Isaac Carasso died in France in 1939.
Founder of the Danone yoghurt Company (Dannon in US)Born in Thessaloniki, Greece
Isaac Carasso was an olive oil merchant of Jewish Greek origin. He founded The Dannon Company in 1919. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece where yogurt was a dietary staple, Carasso decided to introduce this healthy product to Barcelona. He opened a small yogurt business name "Danone", which means "Little Daniel", after his son.
Carasso, who spend his early years in what is now modern Greece, perfected the first industrial process for making yogurt, mixing modern science with traditional Greek recipes.
Daniel Carasso took over the family business in Spain and established Danone in France in 1929. During World War II Daniel Carasso immigrated to the United States and in 1942 founded the first American yogurt company. The younger Carasso Americanized the name to Dannon Milk Products, Inc., in the Bronx, NY.
Isaac Carasso died in France in 1939.

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