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CORPORATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Franck Riboud, 51, Emmanuel Faber, 43, Jean Laurent1, 62, Benoît Potier1, 49, Chairman and Chief Executive Vice-President Chairman of the Board, Chairman of Operating Officer Asia-Pacific Calyon SA Management Board, Air Liquide SA GOVERNANCE Jacques Vincent, 61, Richard Goblet d’Alviella1, Hakan Mogren1, 62, Vice Chairman and 58, Chief Executive Officer, Deputy Chairman, Naomasa Tsuritani2, 62, Chief Operating Officer Sofina SA Astra Zeneca Senior Managing Director, Yakult Honsha Bruno Bonnell1, 48, Bernard Hours, 50, Jacques Nahmias1, 59, 1. Independent director. Chairman, Infogrames Executive Vice-President Chairman, 2. Co-opted at the Board Meeting Entertainment Fresh Dairy Products Pétrofrance Chimie SA of 14 February 2007 to replace Hirokatsu Hirano, who resigned. Naomasa Tsuritani will sit on the Michel David-Weill, 74, Christian Laubie1, 68, board until the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders in 2008, Chairman of Supervisory member, Haut Conseil du when Hirokatsu Hirano’s mandate Board, Eurazeo commissariat aux comptes was due to expire. THE DANONE MODEL Corporate governance comprises the rules and procedures adopted by a company to reach its targets, take decisions and exercise its powers. At DANONE, governance is based on a willingness to listen. In recent years the quality of gover- for engagement with all stakeholders imperative defines the core mission nance in big international corporations to drive progress at Group subsidiaries of the Group Risks department, which has come in for increasingly close scru- in areas under their responsibility— combines the Internal Audit and Risk tiny. Highly publicized business failures from labor policies to product quality Management units and reports to the associated with fraud, mismanagement to supplier and client relations—we Group Secretariat General.
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