An embedded purpose

Our B Corp Journey

B Corps (B Corporations) are mission-driven businesses operating as a force for good. They do business in ways that are not only good for their shareholders, but good for their employees, customers, communities, suppliers and the environment.

In 2025, we officially achieved B Corp certification worldwide. With more than 200 legal Danone entities now certified in over 60 countries, our 90,000 employees represent around 9% of the global B Corp movement workforce. This achievement underscores our long-standing commitment to delivering business success while driving positive social and environmental impact.

Purpose is deeply embedded in Danone globally, in our mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible. The origins of our company go back over 100 years, when our founder Isaac Carasso began selling yoghurts with ferments in pharmacies in Spain to help address child malnutrition. Since then, it’s always been embedded in Danone that we need to go further with our business so we can help communities thrive. The B Corp certification is a great endorsement of this ethos.

Danone was the first top 10 branded food and healthcare manufacturer in the UK & Ireland to certify as a B Corp. We started our unique journey to certification in 2017 and are now fully certified across our UK & Ireland business. We are proud to be part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.

A mark of trust

Is B Corp just another badge for companies?

The B Corp Certification is a real mark of trust – but as we know as B Corps, it’s the actions and values that sit behind that certification that really make us stand out.

To become a B Corp, companies have to meet rigorous criteria to showcase how they make impact across the five key B Corp pillars: governance, workers, community, the environment and customers. It’s not enough just to say you’re doing it, you have to show you’re doing it. We are proud of the progress we have made from our work on creating a diverse workforce to our carbon reduction roadmap, our innovations in packaging and our work to connect with local communities.

Read our 2023 B Corp Impact Report

Doing business in the best possible way

There has never been a more critical time.

More than ever, people want to buy from, work for, invest in and partner with businesses they trust to make a positive impact.

One Planet. One Health.

At Danone, we are on a journey to challenge ourselves and collaborate with others to go further for people and planet.

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People & Communities

Our ambition is to help our Danoners and the communities where we operate and source from thrive in a fast-changing world. As a B Corp, we have a commitment to being a force for good for people and the planet.

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