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Jacques Servier
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Jacques Servier

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Gender
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Place of birth
Vatan, canton of Vatan, arrondissement of Issoudun, Indre
Death
16 April 2014 (aged 92 years)
Place of death
Neuilly-sur-Seine, canton of Neuilly-sur-Seine, arrondissement of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine
Age
92 years
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Biography

Jacques Servier (9 February 1922 – 16 April 2014) was a French doctor and businessman. He was the founder and president of Laboratoires Servier, a pharmaceutical company.

Biography

Founder of the pharmaceutical group Servier in 1954, he had a fortune estimated at US $7.7 billion.

The group led by him, Servier, had been convicted several times to pay damages for Mediator, aka Isoméride, both trade names of dexfenfluramine. There are also active discussions and trial around benfluorex.

Decorations

  • Legion of Honour
    • Knight (1976)
    • Officer (1 December 1987; by Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Philippe Séguin)
    • Commander (31 December 1992; by Minister for Foreign Trade Dominique Strauss-Kahn)
    • Grand Officer (25 March 2002; by President Jacques Chirac)
    • Grand Cross (31 December 2008; by President Nicolas Sarkozy)
  • National Order of Merit
    • Officer (1981)
    • Commander (21 May 1985; by President François Mitterrand)
  • Ordre des Palmes Académiques
    • Knight (1980)
    • Officer (1996)
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