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>https://infogalactic.com/info/Sanofi#History
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>https://pharmaphorum.com/articles/a_history_of-_sanofi/
SANOFI-AVENTIS dig cont'd: (makers of AMBIEN)
A BIG PHARMAceutical (3rd largest WW) conglomoarate of a # of old French & German companies.
Sanofi - orig. a sub of ELF, who was then acquired by Total S.A. (see Qrumb #1359)
Synthélabo - majority owned by L'Oreal
Rhône-Poulenc S.A - old French pharma/chemical company.
Hoechst Marion Roussel - merger of Hoechst AG with Cassella, Roussel Uclaf and Marion Merrell Dow
Let's focus on Hoechst AG atm:
>https://infogalactic.com/info/Hoechst_AG
Hoechst AG (German pronunciation: [ˈhøːkst]) was a German chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis Deutschland after its merger with France's Rhône-Poulenc S.A. in 1999. With the new company's 2004 merger with Sanofi-Synthélabo, it became a subsidiary of the resulting Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceuticals group.
The company was founded in 1863 as "Teerfarbenfabrik Meister, Lucius & Co." in Höchst, near Frankfurt and changed its name some years later to "Teerfarbenfabrik Meister Lucius & Brüning".
In 1916, the Hoechst AG was one of the co-founders of IG FARBEN an advocacy group of Germany's chemicals industry to gain industrial power during and after World War I.
In 1925, IG Farben turned from an advocacy group into the well-known conglomerate.
World War II - Various Hoechst facilities were bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II.
Its managers in charge were defendants, as were the other IG Farben managers, in the Nuremberg trial against the company for its role in the exploitation of enslaved laborers and for testing drugs on concentration camp prisoners.
1951 - Hoechst AG was re-founded on December 7 in Frankfurt when IG Farben was split into its founder companies.
By 1953 Hoechst had acquired parts of Knapsack-Griesheim, Kalle AG, Behring Werke, Wacker Chemie and Ruhr Chemie, among others.[2]
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