The chairman of the board of directors of Sanofi Aventis, Jean-François Dehecq, Neri announced that at the beginning of the year some Chinese funds entered the capital of the pharmaceutical group with a stake of 1.1%. "Funds that weren't present in 2007" indicated the manager describing the geographical distribution of its shareholders on the sidelines of the general meeting. "I think it is a phenomenon common to many companies". Total already has a Chinese shareholder, who has little more of 1%. This Chinese public fund has gradually increased in the capital of the oil group, which also has at least four other sovereign wealth funds (Singapore, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Norway). The information was dated many months ago, but it was filtered only at the beginning of April, without causing a stir, indeed it had been welcomed by the group's executives Christophe de Margerie, head of Total, had shown himself "happy that the group was perceived as a profitable asset". Amerigo France
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