France/World: Alpro, Nutricia, Danone dairy to merge

Danone are working towards merging Alpro, Nutricia and Danone Dairy into one business unit, also prompting a new category vision for dairy in which flexitarian diets play an increasingly important role for consumers. The three separate companies have been integrated into the One Danone operation since the beginning of this year, Foodpersonality reports. With the arrival of top executive Antoine de Saint-Affrique, the group is working on ways to improve its results on the stock market “without detracting from all that has been built up in previous years”, according to Frank den Haan, Danone’s director of retail.