Sanofi

French pharmaceutical company
Organization pharmaceutical_company Q158205
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Summary

Sanofi is a pharmaceutical company[1]. Sanofi ranks in the top 10% of pharmaceutical company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,808 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: France[3]
  • Instance of: organization[4]
  • Owned by: L'Oréal[5]
  • Follows: Marion Merrell Dow[6]
  • Headquarters location: Paris[7]
  • Chief executive officer: Paul Hudson[8]
  • Child organization or unit: Sanofi Pasteur[9], Merial[10], Genzyme[11], Zentiva[12], Sanofi-Aventis Korea[13], Sanofi-Aventis[14], Shantha Biotechnics[15], Hoechst[16], Chattem[17], Zentiva Group[18], Opella[19]
  • Part of: CAC 40[20], Dow Jones Global Titans 50[21], EURO STOXX 50[22]
  • Commons category: Sanofi[23]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[24], Euronext Paris[25]
  • Industry: pharmaceutical industry[26]
  • Inception: August 20, 2004[27]
  • Official website: https://www.sanofi.com/[28], https://www.sanofi.us/[29]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sanofi[30]
  • Product or material produced: prescription drug[31]
  • Employees: 106,566[32]
  • Replaces: Hoechst[33], Synthélabo[34], Rhône-Poulenc[35]
  • Official name: SANOFI[36]
  • Motto text: Empowering life[37]
  • Legal form: public limited company with a board of directors (n.o.s.)[38]
  • Native label: Sanofi[39]
  • Owner of: Infraserv Höchst[40], Regeneron Pharmaceuticals[41]
  • Total revenue: 35,055,000,000[42], 33,821,000,000[43], 34,060,000,000[44], 31,380,000,000[45], 30,693,000,000[46], 36,041,000,000[47], 5,963,000,000[48], 6,488,000,000[49], 7,448,000,000[50], 8,048,000,000[51], 15,043,000,000[52], 27,311,000,000[53], 28,373,000,000[54], 28,052,000,000[55]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300E9PC51EN656011[56]

  • Registered legal name: Sanofi[57]

  • Legal jurisdiction: FR[58]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[59]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): QVPB[60]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[61]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[62]

  • Entity created: 1994-05-18[63]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-01-04[64]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-07-17[65]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-09-02[66]

  • Managing LOU: 213800WAVVOPS85N2205[67]

  • Registration authority: RA000192[68]

  • Authority entity ID: 395 030 844[69]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[70]

Why It Matters

Sanofi has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[71] Sanofi is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[72]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [56] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  14. [69] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [70] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [71] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [72] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · ZI Jony · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14905 → FR39503084400124
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  2. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → B21A-0E5F-C5EF-B654-5B7F
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  3. 18w ago · Kippelboy · 2026-06-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → CAC 40, Dow Jones Global Titans 50, EURO STOXX 50
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  4. 23w ago · ~2026-27172-37 · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Board member → Serge Weinberg
    Owner of → Infraserv Höchst, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
    Follows → Marion Merrell Dow
    Instance of → —
    + 39 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Total revenue: 41,081,000,000"
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