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.Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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, trade name of benfluorex. There was a class action also for Isoméride, trade name of dexfenfluramine. There are also active discussions and trial around benfluorex.
He is buried in the Main Cemetery of Orléans.
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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