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Danone DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-09
Digital Score 0.00 /10 B Danone - BDS-1000 678
Digital 0.00

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Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Danone S.A. is a French société anonyme registered in Paris, and its 2024 Executive Committee included Jürgen Esser as Group Deputy CEO for Finance, Technology & Data and Véronique Penchienati-Bosetta with responsibility including Global Marketing & Digital 1, 2.

Danone describes a corporate digital programme with centres of excellence for AI, cybersecurity, ERP transformation, data governance, and technology-landscape modernisation, reporting 90,000 users, five million daily transactions, and eight petabytes of managed data 3.

Danone announced a July 2024 collaboration with Microsoft covering an AI Academy and Microsoft AI services for digital twins and data-driven decision-making in procurement, production, and distribution 4.

The reviewed Microsoft announcement does not establish Israeli data hosting, Israeli-state access, or Israeli-government use of Danone systems 4.

No public evidence identified of Danone licensing, subscribing to, or integrating Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, or another identified Israeli-origin enterprise-software vendor.

Public materials reviewed do not disclose Danone’s detailed cybersecurity, cloud-hosting, data-processing, systems-integrator, or managed-security procurement, so the record does not support a conclusion about indirect use of Israeli-origin tools 3, 4.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of Danone’s use of Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, behavioural or gait analytics, predictive policing, sentiment monitoring, social-media surveillance, or workforce-surveillance tools.

No public evidence identified that such tools reach Danone through a named managed-service provider, retailer platform, or bundled enterprise suite.

The reviewed public partnership and corporate materials do not identify a named surveillance, biometrics, or retail-analytics vendor serving Danone 3, 4.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Project Nimbus is an Israeli-government cloud programme, and the Israeli Ministry of Finance states that Google won the initial cloud-services tender and that services would be provided from local cloud sites with information processed and stored inside Israel 5.

Danone is not named in the cited Ministry of Finance Project Nimbus announcement 5.

No public evidence identified that Danone participates in Project Nimbus, operates or leases Israeli data-centre infrastructure, or provides data-sovereignty or resilience services to Israeli state or military bodies.

The reviewed public record does not establish where Danone customer, patient, employee, or supplier data are processed, nor whether any such data are routed through Israel 3, 4.

Danone’s corporate entity and governance disclosures reviewed do not identify a Danone-controlled Israeli data centre, R&D office, or other Danone subsidiary in Israel, subject to the stated limitation that these disclosures do not establish the position of all distributors or third-party operations 1, 6.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of Danone contracts, partnerships, or service agreements with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, intelligence agencies, or other Israeli security bodies for technology services.

No public evidence identified of Danone developing, licensing, maintaining, or supplying offensive cyber tools, digital weapons, or technology used for Israeli military, intelligence, or law-enforcement surveillance.

Danone’s reviewed corporate disclosures do not identify it as a Project Nimbus supplier, Israeli-government cloud contractor, or direct technology provider to Israeli security bodies 1, 5.

The 2025 subsidiary list identifies Strauss Health Ltd in Israel as a 20.00% Danone-held entity accounted for by the equity method, rather than as a controlled subsidiary in that list 6.

That subsidiary-list disclosure does not describe Strauss Health’s technology systems, customer data, security services, or state or settlement contracts 6.

The reviewed governance biography identifies Gilles Schnepp as Danone Board Chairman and an operating adviser to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice since 2020, without disclosing Israeli technology-company investments or defence or cyber roles 7.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Danone publicly describes enterprise AI use in consumer and patient engagement, R&I, production, procurement, and distribution 3, 4.

The reviewed Danone AI materials do not name Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security customers 3, 4.

No public evidence identified of Danone AI/ML, computer-vision, or autonomous-systems provision to Israeli state or security bodies, or of Danone models trained on Israeli or occupied-territory surveillance-derived data.

No public evidence identified of Danone provision of autonomous target-generation, targeting, fire-control, or autonomous tracking systems.

Danone’s 2024 Microsoft collaboration identifies digital twins and data-driven decision-making as enterprise applications, rather than military or security applications 4.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

On 2 April 2023, Danone Manifesto Ventures Europe SAS, described in a Tel Aviv Stock Exchange filing as Danone’s venture-capital arm, signed an agreement to invest US$2 million in Wilk Technologies, an Israeli cell-based milk technology company, within a US$3.5 million financing round 8.

On 22 June 2023, Wilk reported a non-binding MOU with Nutricia Research B.V. and Danone Manifesto Ventures Europe SAS concerning a proposed two-year specialised-nutrition joint-development agreement and potential supply agreement for Wilk cell-based lipids 9.

The Wilk filing does not confirm execution of the proposed joint-development agreement or supply agreement 9.

The reviewed filings do not establish whether Danone retained the Wilk investment or whether resulting technology entered Danone production 8, 9.

Danone’s R&I page identifies global research centres in Paris-Saclay, France, and Utrecht Science Park, Netherlands, and refers to local R&I subsidiaries without identifying an Israeli R&D centre 10.

No public evidence identified of a Danone-operated Israeli engineering office, innovation lab, accelerator, data centre, or material patent or co-development arrangement with Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute, or another Israeli research institution.

Danone’s disclosed ownership information for 31 December 2024 identifies Artisan Partners, BlackRock, and The Capital Group Companies as shareholders above 5%, and states that no other shareholder known to Danone held more than 5% of capital or voting rights at that date 1.

The reviewed ownership record therefore identifies no shareholder with at least 10% of capital or voting rights as of 31 December 2024 1.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

The supplied document-scoped pre-scan reports no Danone mention in UN Human Rights Council report A/HRC/59/23, the supplied 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-business databases, and the listed NGO or company reports, but this result is not a database-wide conclusion 11.

No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of a boycott, divestment, sanctions, export-control, regulatory, or legal campaign specifically concerning Danone technology provision to Israeli state bodies or operations in occupied territories.

The available record is bounded by the reviewed corporate disclosures, government materials, exchange filings, and supplied document pre-scan, rather than constituting proof of absence across all regulatory, procurement, ownership, or civil-society records 1, 5, 8, 9, 11.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.danone.com/content/dam/corp/global/danonecom/investors/en-all-publications/2025/registrationdocuments/urd2024accessibleversion.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. https://careers.danone.com/en-global/legal-notice.html ↩

  3. https://www.danone.com/newsroom/stories/danone-s-digital-transformation.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. https://www.danone.com/content/dam/corp/global/danonecom/medias/medias-en/2024/corporatepressreleases/pr-danone-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-ai.pdf.coredownload.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  5. https://www.gov.il/en/pages/_bpress_20102022 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. https://www.danone.com/content/dam/corp/global/danonecom/investors/listedesfiliales2025.pdf.coredownload.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. https://www.danone.com/group/about-us/governance/gilles-schnepp.html ↩

  8. https://mayafiles.tase.co.il/rpdf/1515001-1516000/P1515961-00.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. https://mayafiles.tase.co.il/rpdf/1529001-1530000/P1529987-00.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://www.danone.com/innovation.html ↩

  11. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2