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...Mass producers use chemicals and flavouring to mask rotten or damaged grapes — bottling what often contains little actual wine and plenty of MOG (“matter other than grapes”)....
...Cob The most basic form of earth construction. Stiff mud is mixed by hand with straw to form clumps that are laid on top of each other and the gaps filled with more mud....
...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....
...At one point it seemed Anudu’s future might be in academia, as he juggled a full-time job in research in Lagos, with the agrochemicals division of French chemicals and pharmaceuticals company Rhône-Poulenc...
...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....
...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....
...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...
...asks the Francophile manager, who spends much of his holiday time south of the Rhone. "That is because you have a one-stop shop in France....
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