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Revision as of 07:13, 2 February 2007

Top 50 pharmaceutical companies

The following is a list of the top 50 pharmaceutical and biotech companies ranked by healthcare revenue. Some companies (eg, Bayer) have additional chemicals revenue not included here. The phrase Big Pharma is often used to refer to companies with revenue in excess of $3 billion, and/or R&D expenditure in excess of $500 million, and represents the first 30 or so companies in this list.

Rank 2004 Company Country Healthcare Revenue 2004 (USD millions) Healthcare R&D 2004 (USD millions) Net Income/ (Loss) 2004 (USD millions) Employees 2004
1 Pfizer USA 52,516 7,684 11,361 115,000
2 Bristol-Myers Squibb USA 47,348 5,203 8,509 109,900
3 GlaxoSmithKline UK 37,318 5,204 7,886 100,619
4 Sanofi-Aventis France-Germany 31,615 4,927 6,526 96,439
5 Novartis Switzerland 28,247 4,207 5,767 81,392
6 Hoffmann-La Roche Switzerland 25,163 4,098 5,344 64,703
7 Merck & Co. USA 22,939 4,010 5,813 62,600
8 AstraZeneca UK-Sweden 21,427 3,803 3,813 64,200
9 Abbott Laboratories USA 19,680 1,697 3,236 50,600
10 Johnson & Johnson USA 19,380 2,500 2,388 43,000
11 Wyeth USA 17,358 2,461 1,234 51,401
12 Eli Lilly and Company USA 13,858 2,591 1,810 44,500
13 Bayer Germany 10,554 1,299 750 113,060
14 Amgen USA 10,550 2,028 2,363 14,400
15 Boehringer Ingelheim Germany 10,146 1,532 1,104 35,529
16 Baxter International USA 9,509 517 388 48,000
17 Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Japan 9,330 1,285 2,636 14,510
18 Schering-Plough USA 8,272 1,607 -981 30,500
19 Astellas Pharma Japan 7,904 1,213 566 15,500
20 Procter & Gamble USA 7,786 n/a 7,257 110,000
21 Schering Germany 5,103 1,143 622 26,131
22 Merck KGaA Germany 5,018 611 836 28,877
23 Eisai Co. Japan 4,857 744 527 8,295
24 Novo Nordisk Denmark 4,847 727 837 20,285
25 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Israel 4,799 338 332 13,813
26 Genentech USA 4,621 948 785 7,646
27 Sankyo Co. Japan 4,329 822 459 11,444
28 Akzo Nobel The Netherlands 4,037 644 1,065 61,400
29 Alcon Switzerland 3,914 390 872 12,200
30 Forest Laboratories USA 3,160 294 839 5,136
31 Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co. Japan 2,964 546 353 7,333
32 Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Japan 2,833 463 328 5,327
33 Taisho Pharmaceutical Japan 2,655 221 337 5,378
34 Altana Germany 2,623 506 486 10,783
35 Serono Switzerland 2,458 595 494 4,902
36 Bausch & Lomb USA 2,232 163 160 12,400
37 Mitsubishi Pharma Japan 2,226 480 125 5,917
38 Biogen Idec USA 2,210 684 518 4,266
39 Genzyme USA 2,201 392 87 7,100
40 Solvay Belgium 2,170 366 673 29,300
41 UCB Belgium 2,088 404 451 11,403
42 Allergan USA 2,046 346 377 5,030
43 Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Japan 2,035 230 170 5,960
44 Shionogi & Co. Japan 1,862 279 180 5,522
45 Ivax USA 1,837 142 198 10,100
46 Chiron Corporation USA 1,723 431 79 5,400
47 Watson Pharmaceuticals USA 1,641 134 151 3,851
48 H. Lundbeck Denmark 1,625 296 288 5,155
49 Sumitomo Chemical Co. Japan 1,622 239 612 20,195
50 Tanabe Seiyaku Co. Japan 1,509 264 151 4,517

Source: Top 50 pharmaceutical companies, MedAdNews, September 2005

Alphabetical listing

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

1-A

  • 3M, a diversified global technology company based in the United States which produces pharmaceuticals as part of its health care business
  • Abbott Laboratories, a top-20 pharma company based in the United States
  • Able Laboratories (external link), a former American generic pharmaceutical manufacturer which entered bankruptcy in 2005
  • Aburaihan (external link), the largest Iranian pharmaceutical manufacturer
  • Alkermes, an American company
  • Allergan, an American multinational
  • Almirall Prodesfarma, a Spanish multinational
  • Alphapharm, an Australian generic pharmaceutical manufacturer and a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck KGaA
  • Altana Pharma AG, formerly Byk Gulden, part of Altana AG, a German maker of chemicals and pharmaceuticals
  • Amico Laboratories, a pharma company based in Bangladesh
  • ALZA Corporation, an American company acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2001
  • Amgen, a top-20 pharma company based in the United States
  • Antara Biosciences, a biotechnology company based in the United States
  • Astellas Pharma, a Japanese company formed in 2005 through the merger of Fujisawa Pharmaceutical and Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical
  • Astra AB, a former Swedish company which in 1999 merged with Zeneca Group PLC to form AstraZeneca
  • AstraZeneca, a top-20 pharma company based in the United Kingdom formed in 1999 through the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca Group PLC
  • Aventis, a former French company which in 2004 merged with Sanofi-Synthélabo to form Sanofi-Aventis
  • Axcan Pharma, a specialty pharma company based in Quebec, Canada

B-D

  • Bakhtar Bioshimi (external link), an Iranian generic pharmaceutical manufacturer
  • BARGN FARMACEUTICI, a pharmaceutical distributor based in the Philippines
  • Barr, a specialty pharma company based in the United States
  • Bayer, a top-20 pharma company based in Germany
  • Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd, pharma company based in Bangladesh
  • Biogen Idec, an American company formed in 2003 through the merger of Biogen and Idec Pharmaceuticals
  • Biolex, an American company
  • BioPort, an American vaccine manufacturer and a subsidiary of Emergent BioSolutions
  • Biotecnol, a Portuguese company
  • Biovail, the largest Canadian pharmaceutical company
  • Biovitrum, a Swedish company
  • Boehringer-Ingelheim, a top-20 pharma company based in Germany
  • Bristol-Myers Squibb, a top-20 pharma company based in the United States
  • Catalytica, a former American company which merged with Synotex Company in 2000 to form DSM Catalytica Pharmaceuticals, now known as DSM Pharmaceuticals
  • CCL Pharmaceuticals (external link), a Pakistani company
  • Celltech, a former British company acquired by the Belgian company UCB in 2004
  • Century Pharmaceuticals (external link), an Indian company
  • Cephalon (external link), an American company known for the narcolepsy drug, Modafinil
  • Cilag, a Swiss subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson
  • Cipla, an Indian company best known as a manufacturer of anti-AIDS drugs
  • Claris Lifesciences (external link), a multinational based in India
  • Daiichi Pharmaceuticals, a former Japanese company which merged with Sankyo Co., Ltd. in 2005 to form Daiichi Sankyo
  • Daiichi Sankyo, a Japanese holding company established in 2005 for the management integration of Sankyo and Daiichi Pharmaceuticals
  • Diosynth, a former Dutch company acquired in 2005 by the American firm Organon International, which is in turn a part of the Dutch Akzo Nobel
  • Douglas Pharmaceuticals (external link), a New Zealand-based company
  • Dow Pharmaceutical Sciences (external link), an American company focused on topical therapeutics
  • DSM Pharmaceuticals

•Chiesi Pharmaceutical an Italian company having a dymnamic R&D department. Subsidiaries in many countries of the world including Pakistan.

E-L

M-Z

See also

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