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Featured: Danone honorary chairman died at age 103

PARIS, May 18 (Reuters) - Daniel Carasso, whose father named Danone yoghurt after him in 1919 and who set up the brand in France 10 years later, died on Sunday aged 103, French food group Danone said on Monday. Carasso, born in 1905 in Thessaloniki, went on to set up Dannon in the United States, expand in countries including Mexico, Brazil and Morocco and see through two key mergers.

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