Sanofi-Aventis board vacancy

Aventis business development head and board member Thomas Hoefstatter announces plans to resign. He was expected to serve on the 18-member management committee of the newly merged company's board, and would have been one of 10 representatives of Aventis. Sanofi-Aventis says it is too soon to know how it will proceed with the management and board vacancy, but that it will meet its deadline for putting the new operational structure in place by Jan. 1 (1"The Pink Sheet" Aug. 2, 2004, p. 3)...