The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7314 p278
28 August 2004

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Sanofi buys Aventis

Sanofi-Synthelabo has taken control of 95.47 per cent of the issued share capital of Aventis to form Sanofi-Aventis, which is now the largest pharmaceutical company in Europe and the third largest worldwide.