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A new business
Last update: April 2008
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With the acquisition of Numico in 2007, Groupe DANONE gains a strong presence in a critical new business with high potential – medical nutrition. Products meet the needs of the most vulnerable people, often in care or convalescent, so require very extensive research, continuous communication with health and regulatory authorities, and a special distribution system.
Long underdeveloped, the science of nutrition has now demonstrated that the sick and elderly have special nutritional needs that cannot be met by traditional adult diets. Medical nutrition has emerged as the most attractive segment in the food industry today. From 2006 to 2007 its trading operating margin grew by 20 base points. The product categories which have posted the highest growth are oral nutrition (16.5%) and glucose intolerance (GI)/allergies (23.6%).
