Sanofi Iberia employees donate almost 300 toys for children hospitalized.

Barcelona, January 2012.- employees of Sanofi in Spain and Portugal have massively supported a campaign to collect toys for children this Christmas are admitted to hospitals. Throughout the month of December, employees have made toys to reach the headquarters of Sanofi in Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon.

From the 23rd of that month and with the collaboration of MRW, toys have been distributed, inter alia, to the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona, the Hospital San Rafael de Madrid and the Institute Sao Joao de Deus in Lisbon, all of them belonging to the hospitaller order of San Juan de Dios.

last Thursday held a party for delivery of gifts in the San Hospital Joan de Déu in Barcelona which was attended by several employees of the pharmaceutical company. With this initiative, Sanofi workers want to express solidarity with children in this Christmas, are admitted to these hospitals.

This campaign to collect toys is part of the program Sanofi Solidario, program that will bring together and encourage all the social initiatives driven from both the company and the employees of Sanofi. Under the motto Sanofi Solidario is carried out social initiatives, volunteer programs, charitable actions, awareness-raising and information campaigns, in short, all those activities that enhance and reflect the commitment of Sanofi and the people who make Sanofi with the development and improvement of their environment.

Solidarity sanofi reflects the objective of Sanofi Iberia to build its policy of Corporate Social responsibility with the participation and collaboration of all its interested public, primarily their own employees.

Purpose of the hospitaller order of St. John of God

The hospitaller order of St. John of God is present in more than 50 countries on five continents. It consists of 1,200 brothers, more than 40,000 professionals, 8,000 volunteers and more than 300,000 benefactors – donors. The order develops and conveys an assistance project that maintains as central reception and care to sick and needy people around the world.

With regard to MRW

MRW-Group was founded in 1977. 100% National capital, more than 10,000 people are linked to the mark in more than 1,300 franchise and 60 logistic platforms in Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, Venezuela. Performs an average of more than 40 million of annual shipments and in 2010 its turnover amounted to 563 million euros. They are differential values of the brand: Social responsibility, innovation, attention to demand and refining, day by day, the quality of the service. Since 1993 spends more than 1.5% of its gross revenue on topics of Social Action, working with more than 8,000 nonprofit organizations within the framework of its strategy of Social responsibility.

With regard to Sanofi

Sanofi, a world leader in the pharmaceutical industry, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions focusing on the needs of patients. Sanofi has major strengths in the field of health care, with seven development platforms: solutions for diabetes, human vaccines, innovative drugs, rare diseases, health care consumption, emerging markets and animal health. Sanofi is listed in Paris (EURONEXT: SAN) and New York (NYSE: SNY).