SALES MOMENTUM MAINTAINED, RAPID PROGRESS ON INTEGRATION
Paris, October 21, 2004 SALES MOMENTUM MAINTAINED, RAPID PROGRESS ON integration Sustained growth in proforma combined net sales1: 10.5% for the first nine months of 2004 Aventis will be consolidated by the sanofi-aventis Group for the first time with effect from September 30, 2004. Consequently, sanofi-aventis consolidated net sales for the third quarter and for the first nine months of 2004 relate solely to the scope of consolidation of the former Sanofi-Synthélabo. In the third quarter of 2004, sanofi-aventis (formerly Sanofi-Synthélabo) generated consolidated net sales of 2,306 million