A third of Sanofi Aventis' drug reps to go

French drugs group Sanofi-Aventis on Monday confirmed a newspaper report saying that it planned to cut over 700 jobs in France.

Sanofi-Aventis passe à l'étape suivante de son programme de réductions d'effectifs de visiteurs médicaux en France: l'annonce d'un plan social qui se traduira par 700 à 800 suppressions de postes.

According to French daily Les Echos, the group could cut between 700 and 800 positions of sales representatives in France, or one-third of a total workforce of 2,200.