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...Chlorpromazine, the first antipsychotic, was developed in 1950 by the French pharmaceutical company Rhône-Poulenc but was not originally planned to be a psychiatric drug at all....
...Mr Fourtou carved a very public reputation as a corporate problem solver – first at the then-nationalised Rhone-Poulenc, the pharmaceuticals company where his restructuring plan tripled sales in a decade...
...The Mérieux Institute was eventually taken over in the 1970s by chemical group Rhône-Poulenc, which in turn, after a series of mergers and acquisitions, became Sanofi....
...During his eight years at Rhône-Poulenc he was travelling to France four times a year. “I understood France more than the UK or any other region.” (I ask whether he speaks French....
...The Germans have yet to digest the way the French blocked Siemens’ efforts to expand in France and absorbed Hoechst after it merged with Rhône-Poulenc to create Aventis....
...He revived it and ultimately merged it with France’s Rhône-Poulenc to create Aventis....
...In the 1990s, Hoechst split off its chemicals business and, after being rebuffed by Bayer, merged with Frances’s Rhône-Poulenc to form Aventis....
...For instance, Rhône-Poulenc and Hoechst required a deposit of shares within five and seven days prior to the shareholders meeting, respectively....
...He recalls working many years ago as CIO for the pharmaceuticals group then known as Rhone-Poulenc: “One of the most frustrating things was being excluded from the highest level of decisionmaking....
...Mullen, who formerly worked at Salomon Smith Barney, honed his French experience with stints as a trainee at Technip and Rhône-Poulenc as well as working as a press officer for Paribas in Paris before its...
...The five other companies in the top 10 are Sanofi-Aventis, the French drug group (Aventis was created by a merger between France’s Rhone-Poulenc and Germany’s Hoechst); Santander, the Spanish banking group...
...Rhône-Poulenc has since been subsumed into Aventis, and then Sanofi-Aventis, the pharmaceuticals group....
...And who was the main French architect of the original Aventis merger that combined France's Rhône Poulenc with Germany's Hoechst?...
...involves a cast of thousands including Thierry Breton, the French finance minister and former Rhodia board member, Jean-René Fourtou, Vivendi's chairman but architect of Rhodia's original spin off from Rhône-Poulenc...
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