Sanofi pasteur

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sanofi pasteur

Type of Company	Public
Founded	August, 2004 by merger
Headquarters	HQ in Lyon, France
Key people	Damian Braga VP US
Slogan	Because health matters. (French: L'essentiel c'est la santé.)
Website	sanofipasteur.com

Sanofi pasteur is the vaccines business of sanofi-aventis Group. It is the largest company in the world devoted entirely to vaccines.

1 History
- 1.1 Key Dates
2 Key facts & figures in 2004
3 Vaccines

[edit] History

In 2004, Aventis merged with and into Sanofi. The new sanofi-aventis Group became the world's 3rd largest pharmaceutical company, ranking number 1 in Europe. Aventis Pasteur, the vaccine division of sanofi-aventis Group, changes its name to sanofi pasteur.

[edit] Key Dates

1897, Marcel Mérieux creates the Mérieux Biological Institute in Lyon. Richard Slee creates the Pocono Biological Laboratories, in Swiftwater (Pennsylvania) in the US
1914, John FitzGerald creates Connaught Laboratories, part of the University of Toronto.
1968, Rhône-Poulenc acquires 51% of the capital of the Institut Mérieux.
1974, Pasteur Institute creates Pasteur Production, a subsidiary specializing in manufacturing vaccines
1978, Connaught Laboratories in Canada acquires the vaccine manufacturing facility (Merrell-National Laboratories) at Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, US.
1985, Pasteur Production, the vaccines branch of the Institut Pasteur, is acquired by the Mérieux Institute, and Pasteur Vaccins is created
1989, The Mérieux Institute acquires the Connaught Laboratories in Canada and its subsidiaries and becomes a world leader in human biology
1990, Creation of Pasteur Mérieux Serums & Vaccins
1994, Pasteur Mérieux Sérums & Vaccins becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Rhône-Poulenc.
1996, Pasteur Mérieux Connaught is the new name of Pasteur Mérieux Serums et Vaccins
1999, Rhône-Poulenc and Hoechst unite their Life Sciences activities in a single company, which takes on the name Aventis. Within this group, Pasteur Mérieux Connaught changes its name to Aventis Pasteur.
2004, merger of Aventis with and into Sanofi. The new sanofi-aventis Group becomes the world's 3rd largest pharmaceutical company, ranking number 1 in Europe. Aventis Pasteur, the vaccine division of the sanofi-aventis Group, changes its name to sanofi pasteur.

[edit] Key facts & figures in 2004

Sanofi pasteur - proforma sales: € 1.624 billion (growth of 7.5%)
Staff: over 9,000 employees
Nearly a billion doses of vaccines sold to protect over 500 million people in the world
A wide range of vaccines protecting against 20 bacterial and viral diseases
A presence in 150 countries
R&D: 17% of sales reinvested in R&D, over 1,000 persons working in France, U.S.A. and Canada
Headquarters: Lyon, France