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Grameen Bank Bhaban
(10th floor)
Mirpur 2 Dhaka
Dhaka - Bangladesh
www.danonecommunities.com/project/grameen-danone-foods-ltd

Activities

Agri-food

Overview

A unique community-based model

:: The mission of Grameen Danone Foods speaks for itself: to reduce poverty by bringing health through food to children using a unique community-based business model.

A joint venture launched by Danone and Grameen (the “Bank of the poor”) in March 2006, Grameen Danone Foods is a business—and as such must turn a profit—but its priorities are reversed.
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Grameen Danone Foods has placed social and environmental concerns at the heart of its business model. Although the company has to be profitable – profits from the first plants are needed to finance the construction of new plants – the success of the project will above all be judged on non-financial criteria: the number of direct and indirect jobs created (milk producers, small wholesalers, door to door sellers), improvements to children's health, protection of the environment etc