Saturday, August 29, 2009

Sanofi Aventis - KC blues

Sanofi-Aventis is closing its Kansas City manufacturing plant after failing to find a satisfactory buyer for the operation, which employs 370 people.

The decision to shutter the 33-year-old plant, which manufactures solid-dose oral medications including Allegra, marks the end of an era. It was the last to have been operated by Marion Laboratories, the pharmaceutical empire established by Ewing Kauffman.

Aventis, later Sanofi-Aventis, has owned it since 2000.

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