Lefèvre-Utile, better known worldwide by the initials LU, is a French manufacturer brand of biscuits, emblematic of the city of Nantes. The brand is now part of US confectionery company Mondelēz International since 2012, after splitting of its previous owner Kraft Foods Inc., which had acquired it as part of its acquisition from Groupe Danone in 2007. The Petit-Beurre biscuit remains the flagship product alongside the Ladyfinger, Champagne, Petit four, Prince de LU, Pim's, Paille d'Or, etc.
LU factory in Nantes, pictured in 2011
Petit Beurre biscuit, 1886
Advertisement for LU Champagne Biscuits, Alfons Mucha, 1896
Advertisement for Biscuits Lefèvre-Utile, Alfons Mucha, 1897
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