Danone is one of the world’s leading health food companies with activities in dairy, water, early life nutrition and medical nutrition. Larive has been acting as permanent advisor for Danone on business development and M&A advisory in East and South East Asia.
Larive assisted Danone with gathering business intelligence, market entry & growth advisory services, distributor/licensee selection processes, and M&A transactions in Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, India, Malaysia and Myanmar. Relevant milestones include establishing a JV with Berli Jucker Foods (Thailand) in 2012, with URC (Philippines) in 2014 and with Sappe (Thailand) in 2019.