Danone S.A. is a French multinational food-products corporation based in Paris. It was founded in 1919 in Barcelona, Spain. It is listed on Euronext Paris, where it is a component of the CAC 40 stock market index. Some of the company's products are branded Dannon in the United States.
Danone head office in Paris, July 2010
Isaac Carasso, founder of Danone
The research center of Danone in the business cluster of Paris-Saclay, France, photographed in 2014
Danone factory in Bieruń, Poland, pictured in 2006
The CAC 40 is a benchmark French stock market index. The index represents a capitalization-weighted measure of the 40 most significant stocks among the 100 largest market caps on the Euronext Paris. It is a price return index. It is one of the main national indices of the pan-European stock exchange group Euronext alongside Euronext Amsterdam's AEX, Euronext Brussels' BEL20, Euronext Dublin's ISEQ 20, Euronext Lisbon's PSI-20 and the Oslo Bors OBX Index.
It is an index without dividends.
Cotation operates every working day from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It is updated every 15 seconds.
CAC 40 performance since 31 December 1987, linked to "indice Insee de la Bourse de Paris' from 1965 to 1987.
