Award to the school of marketing of Danone.

Barcelona, January 2012.- Santiago Mier, marketing director of Danone since 2008, has received the award to the best young marketing executive granted by the firm of headhunters Seeliger y Conde.

Mier began his career in the marketing team of Danone Spain, reference in the marketing of consumer goods and where several professionals have come to occupy positions in subsidiaries of the company in other countries and even to possess high responsibilities in the Danone Group worldwide. First responsibility as chief marketing officer of Santiago Mier was in the Czech Republic and despite his youth, led the launch worldwide of Activia brand, present today in over 50 countries.

Danone sees the award recognition to the group policy support and promote the talent and the creation of teams in all functional areas. Danone hires its employees to build careers rather than simply filling the posts. This has created the College Leadership Danone and a management system of proximity that assess the growth of the leader and his group. The result is a team in the forefront of the global management and with fidelity of 85 per cent to the company, well above other companies in the sector.

For Santiago Mier “now more than ever is important to the strength of individuals and teams to create the future and overcome the most adverse situations.” “The culture of the team effort is a very solid foundation on which to settle the strategy of the future.”

Santiago Mier.

Danone is contained in the rankings as one of the best companies to work and has received awards such as Building Communities (from the consultoreas Augere, holistic) or Best Place to Work (from the Great Place to Work institute) that recognize the facilities afforded by the company for personal and professional development, training and the recognition of the work. Other honors received this year are the Premio Nacional de Marketing (of the National Association of Marketing) innovation, Young Lions Marketers of Spain (Cannes film festival), or the advertising career award. (Spanish Association of advertisers).

Danone

DANONE is the world leader in dairy products and other intended for infant feeding and health care with more than 300 million customers.

Spanish Isaac Carasso created in Barcelona in 1919 the first factory in the world of industrial yoghurt, for mass consumption. Since then the teaches Danone has been integrating different companies with more than 100 products on the market.

The group is today French capital with a presence in 120 countries. The turnover of the group over 17,000 million EUR (2010), with 100,000 employees around the world.

In Spain it has production plants in Madrid, Barcelona, Asturias, Valencia and Andalusia, which supply daily 80,000 stores and 12 million consumers.