Hoechst AG () was a German chemicals then life-sciences company that became Aventis Deutschland after its merger with France's Rhône-Poulenc S. A. in 1999.

Aventis was formed in 1999 when French company Rhône-Poulenc S. A. merged with the German corporation Hoechst Marion Roussel, which itself was formed from the 1995 merger of Hoechst AG with Roussel Uclaf and Marion Merrell Dow.

The Aventis Foundation, a German charitable trust, was established in 1996 as the Hoechst Foundation with an endowment of € 50 million.

Between 2000 and 2006, following the merger of Rhône-Poulenc with Hoechst AG to form Aventis, the prizes were renamed the Aventis Prizes for Science Books.

Hoechst Marion Roussel ( now part of Aventis ) introduced rifapentine in 1999.

Hoechst Schering AgrEvo merged in 1999 with Rhône-Poulenc's agrochemical division to form Aventis CropScience, which was acquired by Bayer AG in 2002 and combined with Bayer's agrochemical division to form Bayer CropScience.

StarLink is a variety of Bt corn patented by Aventis Crop Sciences ( a subdivision of Aventis, acquired by Bayer AG in 2002 ), intended for use in animal feed.

Sanofi-Aventis was formed in 2004 when Sanofi-Synthélabo acquired Aventis.

Carrefour is the world's second largest retail group in terms of revenue ; EADS is the world's second largest aerospacial company ; Total is the world's fourth largest private oil company ; Danone is the world's fifth largest food company and the world's largest supplier of mineral water ; Sanofi Aventis is the world's fifth largest pharmaceutical company ; Publicis is the world's third largest advertising company ; PSA is the world's 6th and Europe's 2nd largest automaker ; Renault-Nissan is the world's leading electric car developer among major automakers ; Accor is the leading European hotel group ; Alstom is one of the world's leading conglomerates in power generation and transport ; Pernod Ricard is one of the world's biggest producer of distilled beverages ( owning the former Seagram distilleries ).

The company was formed as Sanofi-Aventis in 2004 by the merger of Aventis and Sanofi-Synthélabo.

The French government, desiring what they called a " local solution ", put heavy pressure on Sanofi-Synthélabo to raise its bid for Aventis after it became known that Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, was in the running.

In 2004, during a period of plasma oversupply, the company expanded again with the purchase of the German medical company Aventis Behring.

In 1999 the company was merged with the French Rhône-Poulenc S. A. and became Aventis which, after another merger, became Sanofi-Aventis.

This led to a public relations disaster for Aventis and the biotechnology industry as a whole.

The registration for Starlink varieties was voluntarily withdrawn by Aventis in October 2000.

The most recent prescription weight loss medication released is Acomplia ( generic name Rimonabant ), manufactured by Sanofi Aventis.

Rapid-acting insulin analogs such as lispro ( brandname: Humalog, made by Eli Lilly and Company ) and aspart ( brandname: Novolog / Novorapid, made by Novo Nordisk and Apidra made by Sanofi Aventis ) are preferred by many clinicians over older regular insulin for meal coverage and high correction.

Joseph Schlessinger's former colleagues at the Weizmann Institute, in particular Michael Sela, claimed to have come up with this concept alongside Schlessinger when they worked together there years earlier, and Yeda challenged the Aventis patent in the United States.

Important corporations headquartered at La Défense include Neuf Cegetel, Société Générale, Total, Aventis, Areva, and Arcelor.

In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book.

In 1999 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize in 2000 for his book Time, Love, Memory about Seymour Benzer.

The Universe in a Nutshell is winner of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books 2002.

The formal WTO case challenging the EU's regulatory system was in particular lobbied by U. S. biotechnology giant Monsanto Company and France's Aventis, as well as by big agricultural groups such as the National Corn Growers Association.

His book Mapping the Deep, a narrative of the story of ocean science, won the 2001 Aventis Science Book of the Year award.

Marion Laboratories had revenues of $ 930 million the year before it merged with Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals ( now part of Aventis ) in 1989.

It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, and winner of The Aventis Prizes for Science Books in 2000.

With the presence of some 20 multinationals such as Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Aventis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Montreal ranks eighth in North America for the number of jobs in the pharmaceutical sector.

Biogen Idec's principal competitors include Teva, Sanofi Aventis, Serono, Novartis, and Bayer Schering Pharma.

The James Cook University Singapore, University of Adelaide, Southern Cross University University of New Brunswick, Queen Margaret University, Temple University, The City University of New York, Baruch College, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Aventis School of Management, Curtin University of Technology & University of Wales Institute, Cardiff have established offshore campuses in Singapore to provide local and foreign ( in particular, Asian ) students the opportunity to obtain a Western university education at a fraction of the cost it would take to study in Canada, the UK, the U. S. A. or Australia.

He acquired much favor with the Emperor Hadrian, who adopted him as his son and successor on 25 February 138, after the death of his first adopted son Lucius Aelius, on the condition that Antoninus would in turn adopt Marcus Annius Verus, the son of his wife's brother, and Lucius, son of Aelius Verus, who afterwards became the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

In the 1870s railroad president Conrad Poppenhusen and his successor Austin Corbin acquired all the railroads and consolidated them into the LIRR.

Emery's successor company, Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, was acquired by UPS at the end of 2004.

The mill was owned by Crown Zellerbach until 1986 and its brown paper successor Gaylord Container Corporation until 2002, when Gaylord was acquired by Temple-Inland Corporation, the area's largest employer.

It is the successor to the Intel StrongARM line of microprocessors and microcontrollers, which Intel acquired from DEC's Digital Semiconductor division as the side effect of a lawsuit between the two companies.

Gordy relocated Motown Records to Los Angeles in 1972 and there it remained an independent company until June 28, 1988, when Gordy sold the company to MCA and Boston Ventures ( which took over full ownership of Motown in 1991 ), then to PolyGram in 1994, before being sold again to MCA Records ' successor Universal Music Group, when it acquired The PolyGram Group.

InDesign is the successor to Adobe's own PageMaker, which was acquired with the purchase of Aldus in late 1994.

CBS Records acquired the Monument catalog, and its successor company Sony Music reactivated the label in 1997 as a country label.

Paramount used cash acquired from the sale of G + W's non-entertainment properties to take over the TVX Broadcast Group chain of TV stations ( which at that point consisted mainly of large-market stations which TVX bought from Taft Broadcasting, plus two mid-market stations which TVX owned prior to the Taft purchase ), and the KECO Entertainment chain of theme parks from Taft successor Great American Broadcasting.

A short time later, this successor company was acquired by Hallmark Entertainment in 1994, but Halmi, Robert Halmi Jr. and affiliates of Kelso & Company reacquired the company in 2006.

Harvey Weinstein and Bob Weinstein, founders / owners of the new independent distribution company Miramax Films had previously acquired the US rights to the film of the 1979 show The Secret Policeman's Ball and they subsequently acquired the rights to its successor The Secret Policeman's Other Ball.

In 1985, when federal regulations had been relaxed, Tri-Star Pictures ( then a joint venture co-owned by Coca-Cola, also owners of Columbia Pictures at the time, CBS, and Time Inc .) acquired the Loews theater chain from Loews Corporation, the successor company to the original firm founded by Marcus Loew.

Saint Gregory Palamas foresaw the danger that these views held for Orthodoxy and through the power and energy of the Most Holy Spirit and the experience which he himself had acquired as a successor to the Holy Fathers, he confronted this great danger and preserved unadulterated the Orthodox Faith and Tradition.

BMW acquired the Standard and Triumph brands following its purchase of BL's successor Rover Group in 1994.

The land was acquired in 1884 by Wiseman's successor, Cardinal Manning, having previously been occupied by the second Tothill Fields Bridewell prison.

While the bulk of telecommunications assets were acquired by Ericsson through its 2005 acquisition of a successor company of GEC-Marconi Corporation plc.

He is most famous for his leadership of Texas International Airlines and its successor holding company Texas Air Corporation between 1972 and 1990, through which he formed or acquired a number of major U. S. airlines including Continental Airlines, Eastern Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, New York Air and Peoplexpress Airlines.

Billinton died before examples could be acquired, but in 1905 his successor Douglas Earle Marsh acquired two steam railcars from Beyer, Peacock and Company, and two petrol railcars from Dick, Kerr & Co ..

Norton acquired Liveright ( the successor to the famous Boni & Liveright publishing house ) in 1974 and Countryman Press ( New England travel book publisher ) in 1996.

De Sancy later sold the diamond to James I ( successor of Queen Elizabeth ) about 1605 when it is thought the Sancy acquired its name.

The first book concludes with a very interesting chapter on copyhold tenures, which marks the exact point at which the tenant — by-copy-of-court-roll, the successor of the villein, who, in his turn, represented the freeman reduced to villeinage by the growth of the manorial system, acquired security of tenure.

Although perhaps singularly most responsible for the destruction of pagan sites, including massacres, such as the Massacre of Verden and the subsequent dismantling of ancient tribal ruling systems, the Frankish emperor Charlemagne of The Holy Roman Empire is said to have acquired a substantial collection of Germanic songs, which was deliberately destroyed after his death by his successor, Louis the Pious.

2000-Western Star Trucks, Inc., the successor to the White Motor Co. of Canada, and its assembly plants in Kelowna, BC, and Ladson, SC were acquired.