SANOFI-SYNTHELABO'S OFFER FOR AVENTIS PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF THE OFFERS
SANOFI-SYNTHELABO'S OFFER FOR AVENTIS PROVISIONAL RESULTS OF THE OFFERS Paris, France - August 9, 2004 - Sanofi-Synthelabo (PARIS: SAN, NYSE: SNY) announces that the French Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) today published the provisional results of its offers for Aventis. These results indicate that, as of the expiration of the offers, in aggregate 769,920,773 Aventis shares had been tendered into the French, German and U.S. offers, including the Aventis shares underlying ADSs tendered into the U.S. offer. In addition, 92,692 warrants issued by Aventis in 2002 and 164,556 warrants