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The following is a list of the twelve largest healthcare companies ranked here by revenue according to their released 2009 annual reports.

Rank Company Country Total Revenues (USD
United States dollar
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 billions)
Total Revenues (reported currency in millions) Change 09/08 (%) Net income/ (loss) (reported currency in millions) Change 09/08 (%) R&D Expenses (reported currency in millions) Change 09/08 (%) Fortune 500 Ranking
1 Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

United States 61,90 $61,897 -2.9 $12,266 -5.3 6,986 -7.8 103
2 Pfizer
Pfizer
Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...

United States 50,01 $50,009 3.5 8,635 6.6 7,845 -1.3 152
3 Roche Switzerland 47,35 49,051 CHF
Swiss franc
The franc is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia. Although not formally legal tender in the German exclave Büsingen , it is in wide daily use there...

7.5 8,510 CHF
Swiss franc
The franc is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia. Although not formally legal tender in the German exclave Büsingen , it is in wide daily use there...

-21.5 9,874 CHF
Swiss franc
The franc is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia. Although not formally legal tender in the German exclave Büsingen , it is in wide daily use there...

11.6 171
4 GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...

United Kingdom 45,83 £28,368 16.5 £5,669 20.3 £4,106 11.5 168
5 Novartis
Novartis
Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...

Switzerland 44,27 $44,267 6.8 $8,454 3.6 $7,469 3.5 183
6 Sanofi France 41,99 €29,306 6.3 €8,471 17.9 €4,583 0.2 181
7 AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca plc is a global pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's seventh-largest pharmaceutical company measured by revenues and has operations in over 100 countries...

United Kingdom 32,81 $32,804 3.8 $7,544 23.1 $4,409 -14.9 268
8 Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....

United States 30,76 $30,765 4.2 5,746 21.4 2,744 2.1 294
9 Merck & Co.
Merck & Co.
Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...

United States 27,43 $27,428 15.0 $13,024 64.2 $5,800 20.8 378
10 Bayer HealthCare
Bayer
Bayer AG is a chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen , Germany in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and well known for its original brand of aspirin.-History:...

Germany 22,30 €15,988 3.8 €1,696 38.8 €1,845 5.9 154
11 Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...

United States 21,84 $21,836 7.2 $4,328 N/A N/A N/A 455
12 Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb , often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation...

United States 18,81 $18,808 6.2 $4,420 19.9 3,647 3.8 435


Some data have not been audited yet. Bayer
Bayer
Bayer AG is a chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen , Germany in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and well known for its original brand of aspirin.-History:...

 has additional revenue not included here. The missing parts of the table will be added as more data are released by the companies.

The following is a list of the twelve largest healthcare companies ranked by revenue in the Fortune Global 500.

Rank Company Country Total Revenues (USD
United States dollar
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 millions)
Net income/ (loss) (USD
United States dollar
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 millions)
Employees
1 Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

United States 63,747.0 12,949.0 118,700
2 Pfizer
Pfizer
Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...

United States 48,296.0 8,104.0 81,800
3 GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...

United Kingdom 44,654.0 8,438.6 99,003
4 Roche Switzerland 44,267.5 8,288.1 80,080
5 Sanofi-Aventis
Sanofi-Aventis
Sanofi S.A. is a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, France, the world's fourth-largest by prescription sales. Sanofi engages in the research and development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products for sale principally in the prescription market, but the...

France 42,179.0 5,636.7 98,213
6 Novartis
Novartis
Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...

Switzerland 41,459.0 8,195.0 96,717
7 AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca plc is a global pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's seventh-largest pharmaceutical company measured by revenues and has operations in over 100 countries...

United Kingdom 31,601.0 6,101.0 65,000
8 Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....

United States 29,527.6 4,880.7 68,838
9 Merck
Merck & Co.
Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...

United States 23,850.3 7,808.4 55,200
10 Wyeth
Wyeth
Wyeth, formerly one of the companies owned by American Home Products Corporation , was a pharmaceutical company. The company was based in Madison, New Jersey, USA...

United States 22,833.9 4,417.8 47,426
11 Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb , often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation...

United States 21,366.0 5,247.0 35,000
12 Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...

United States 20,378.0 (2,071.9) 40,500


The following is a list of the 49 largest companies involved in pharmaceutical and biotech industry ranked by healthcare revenue . Some companies (e.g., Bayer
Bayer
Bayer AG is a chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen , Germany in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and well known for its original brand of aspirin.-History:...

) has additional revenue not included here.

Rank Company Country Total Revenues (USD millions) Healthcare R&D 2008 (USD millions) Net income/ (loss) 2008 (USD millions) Employees 2008
1 Pfizer
Pfizer
Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...

 (with Wyeth
Wyeth
Wyeth, formerly one of the companies owned by American Home Products Corporation , was a pharmaceutical company. The company was based in Madison, New Jersey, USA...

)
United States 70,696 11,318 14,111 137,127
2 Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

United States 63,747 NA 10,576 119,200
3 Hoffmann–La Roche Switzerland 43,970 NA 8,135 78,604
4 Novartis
Novartis
Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...

Switzerland 41,460 NA 11,946 98,200
5 GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...

United Kingdom 40,424 6,373 10,432 103,483
6 Sanofi-Aventis
Sanofi-Aventis
Sanofi S.A. is a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, France, the world's fourth-largest by prescription sales. Sanofi engages in the research and development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products for sale principally in the prescription market, but the...

France 40,328 NA 7,204 99,495
7 AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca plc is a global pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's seventh-largest pharmaceutical company measured by revenues and has operations in over 100 countries...

United Kingdom 31,601 NA 5,959 67,400
8 Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....

United States 29,527 2,688 4,880 68,697
9 Merck & Co.
Merck & Co.
Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...

United States 23,850 4,678 7,808 74,372
10 Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb , often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation...

United States 19,977 NA 2,165 42,000
11 Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...

United States 18,634 NA 2,953 40,600
12 Boehringer Ingelheim Germany 16,959 1,977 2,163 43,000
13 Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Japan 15,697 1,620 2,870 15,000
14 Bayer
Bayer
Bayer AG is a chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in Barmen , Germany in 1863. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and well known for its original brand of aspirin.-History:...

 
Germany 15,407 3,770 6,448 108,600
15 Amgen
Amgen
Amgen Inc. is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, Amgen is the world's largest independent biotech firm. The company employs approximately 17,000 staff members. Its products include Epogen, Aranesp, Enbrel, Kineret,...

United States 14,771 3,366 3,166 48,000
16 Genentech
Genentech
Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...

United States 13,400 15773 3,640 33,500
17 Baxter International
Baxter International
Baxter International Inc. , is an American health care company with headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois. The company primarily focuses on products to treat hemophilia, kidney disease, immune disorders and other chronic and acute medical conditions...

United States 12,300 614 1,397 38,428
18 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. , is an international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel. It specializes in generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients...

Israel 11,080 495 546 26,670
19 Astellas Pharma
Astellas Pharma
is a Japanese pharmaceutical company, formed on 1 April 2005 from the merger of and .Astellas' franchise areas are urology, immunology , dermatology, cardiology, and infectious disease...

Japan 10,701 1,435 1,122 23,613
20 Daiichi Sankyo Japan 9,682 1,459 671 20,100
21 Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products and services. Created in 1989 through a merger of two Danish companies dating back to the 1920s, it has become one of the world's leading companies in diabetes care, where Novo Nordisk pursues research into pulmonary delivery systems;...

Denmark 9,081 1,063 1,922 26,575
22 Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

United States 8,964 NA 10,340 29,258
23 Eisai
Eisai Co.
is a Japanese pharmaceutical company, ranking among the top 25 in the world by revenue and achieving $8 billion USD in sales for the fiscal 2008 year. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it has some 10,000 employees, among them about 1,500 in research. Eisai is a member of the Topix 100 and Nikkei 225...

Japan 5,583 926 604 14,993
24 Merck KGaA
Merck KGaA
Merck KGaA is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. Merck, also known as “German Merck” and “Merck Darmstadt”, was founded in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1668, making it the world's oldest operating chemical and pharmaceutical company. The company was privately owned until going public in 1995...

Germany 5,175 772 1,258 13,900
25 Alcon
Alcon
Alcon incorporated and with corporate headquarters, in Hünenberg, Switzerland, is a global medical company specializing in eye care products. Alcon's U.S. headquarters is located in Fort Worth, Texas...

United States 4,897 512 1,348 13,500
26 SINOPHARM
SINOPHARM
Sinopharm Group Company Limited is the largest pharmaceutical company in China, jointly owned by China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical. Its revenue in 2007 reached 35 billion RMB....

China 4,700 498 1249 9700
27 Akzo Nobel
Akzo Nobel
Akzo Nobel N.V., trading as AkzoNobel, is a Dutch multinational, active in the fields of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company has activities in more than 80 countries, and employs approximately 55,000 people. Sales in 2010 were EUR...

Netherlands 4,694 741 1,449 13,000
28 UCB
UCB (company)
UCB is a multinational biopharmaceutical manufacturing company headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.- History :UCB was founded on 18 January 1928 by Emmanuel Janssen, a Belgian businessman...

Belgium 4,426 1,024 492 12,741
29 Nycomed
Nycomed
Nycomed is a European pharmaceutical company. Nycomed is privately owned primarily by the two private equity investors Nordic Capital and CSFB Alternative Capital. Production is located in Norway, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Estonia India, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Head office...

Switzerland 4,264 NA -105 10,533
30 Forest Laboratories
Forest Laboratories
Forest Laboratories is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, USA. Its revenues for the year ended 31 March 2007 were US$3.4 billion. The company's research and development spending has grown rapidly in recent years, and as of 2007, approached almost a billion US dollars a year,...

United States 3,442 941 454 9,649
31 Solvay
Solvay (company)
Solvay S.A. is a Belgian chemical company with its head office in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. It was founded in 1863 by Ernest Solvay to produce sodium carbonate by the solvay process. Since then the company has diversified to two major sectors of activity: chemicals and plastics...

Belgium 3,268 533 1,026 9,000
32 Genzyme
Genzyme
Genzyme Corporation is a fully owned subsidiary of Sanofi-Aventis. Before its acquisition, Genzyme was an American biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2010, Genzyme was the world’s third-largest biotechnology company, employing more than 11,000 people around the world...

United States 3,187 650 -17 8,477
33 Allergan
Allergan
Allergan, Inc., is a global specialty pharmaceutical company. Their product ranges include ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, dermatology products, and neurological products.-Profile:...

United States 3,063 1,056 -127 8,423
34 Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics. For many years since the company was founded, the company concentrated primarily on antiviral drugs to treat patients infected with HIV, hepatitis B or influenza. In 2006, Gilead acquired two...

United States 3,026 384 -1,190 6,772
35 CSL
CSL Limited
CSL Limited is a global specialty biopharmaceutical company that researches, develops, manufactures and markets products to treat and prevent serious human medical conditions...

Australia 2,788 161 454 6,400
36 Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary drug manufacturer operating in Japan controlled by Hoffmann–La Roche, which owns 52% of the company...

Japan 2,787 467 328 5,962
37 Biogen Idec
Biogen Idec
Biogen Idec, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in drugs for neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders and cancer. The company was formed in 2003 by the merger of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen Inc. and San Diego, California-based IDEC Pharmaceuticals...

United States 2,683 718 218 5,907
38 Bausch & Lomb
Bausch & Lomb
Bausch & Lomb, an American company based in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today. In addition to this main activity, in recent years the area of medical technology has been developed...

United States 2,292 197 15 5,830
39 Taiho Pharmaceutical
Taiho Pharmaceutical
is a Japanese pharmaceutical company among the 50 largest in the world by revenue. The company focuses on developing cancer treatments....

 Co.
Japan 2,069 244 132 5,756
40 King Pharmaceuticals
King Pharmaceuticals
King Pharmaceuticals , was the world's 39th largest pharmaceutical company, based in Bristol, Tennessee. However, on October 12, 2010, King was acquired by Pfizer for $14.25 per share. King produced a wide range of pharmaceuticals, including Altace for heart attack prevention, Levoxyl for...

United States 1,989 254 289 5,191
41 Watson Pharmaceuticals
Watson Pharmaceuticals
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated is the 5th largest pharmaceutical company in the United States based on number of prescriptions dispensed...

United States 1,979 131 -445 5,126
42 Mitsubishi Pharma
Mitsubishi Pharma
is a Japanese pharmaceuticals company, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation. It was formed in 2001 from the merger of Mitsubishi-Tokyo Pharamceuticals and Welfide Corporation.-History:...

Japan 1,945 403 208 5,111
43 Shire United Kingdom 1,797 387 278 4,958
44 Cephalon
Cephalon
Cephalon, Inc. is a U.S. biopharmaceutical company co-founded in 1987 by Dr. Frank Baldino, Jr., a pharmacologist and former scientist with the DuPont Company, who served as the company's chairman and chief executive officer until his death in December 2010...

United States 1,764 403 145 4,913
45 Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma
Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma
is a pharmaceutical company based in Japan.The original Dainippon Pharmaceuticals was established in 1885 by Nagayo Sensai, a graduate of Tekijuku – the first private medical school in Japan established by Ogata Kōan. It was set up as a wholly private company invested by a number of people in...

Japan 1,763 350 193 3,750
46 Kyowa Hakko Japan 1,698 268 108 2,895
47 Shionogi
Shionogi
is a Japanese pharmaceutical company best known for developing Crestor. Medical supply and brand name also uses Shionogi .Shionogi has business roots that date back to 1878, and was incorporated in 1919. Among the medicines produced are for hyperlipidaemia, antibiotics, and cancer medicines.In...

Japan 1,640 320 159 2,868
48 Mylan Laboratories United States 1,612 104 217 2,800
49 H. Lundbeck Denmark 1,552 329 186 2,515

Alphabetical listing

It is limited to those companies notable enough to have articles in Wikipedia.

1-A

  • 3M Pharmaceuticals
  • Abbott Laboratories
    Abbott Laboratories
    Abbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....

  • Actavis
    Actavis
    Actavis is an international generic pharmaceutical company based in Iceland that was founded in 1956 as Pharmaco. Listed on the Icelandic Stock Exchange until 2007, it was taken private by Novator Partners, an investment vehicle of the chairman Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson.In the late 1990s,...

  • Actelion
    Actelion
    Actelion was founded in December 1997 and is headquartered in Allschwil near Basel . Its CEO and co-founder is cardiologist Jean-Paul Clozel. Actelion scientists were among the first to work in the field of endothelian receptor antagonists...

  • Alcon
    Alcon
    Alcon incorporated and with corporate headquarters, in Hünenberg, Switzerland, is a global medical company specializing in eye care products. Alcon's U.S. headquarters is located in Fort Worth, Texas...

  • Alkaloid
    Alkaloid (company)
    Alkaloid is one of the largest companies in the Republic of Macedonia manufacturing drugs, processing botanical raw material, manufacturing cosmetics and chemical products. Its flagship product is Caffetin, a combined analgesic tablet that contains paracetamol, propyphenazone, codeine phosphate...

  • Alkermes
  • Allergan
    Allergan
    Allergan, Inc., is a global specialty pharmaceutical company. Their product ranges include ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, dermatology products, and neurological products.-Profile:...

  • Almirall
  • Alphapharm
    Alphapharm
    Alphapharm is a generic drug manufacturing company based in Australia. Alphapharm manufactures many different generic pharmaceutical medicines. It is an owned by Mylan Pharmaceuticals . Alphapharm's logo is a green circle with a white lowercase alpha enclosed. Alphapharm is the greatest sole...

    , a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck KGaA.
  • Altana Pharma AG
    Altana
    The Altana AG is a German chemical company based in Wesel. Altana develops and produces products in the specialty chemicals business. The ALTANA Group, with headquarters in Wesel/Germany, sells 85% of its products overseas...

    , formerly part of Altana AG, part of the Nycomed
    Nycomed
    Nycomed is a European pharmaceutical company. Nycomed is privately owned primarily by the two private equity investors Nordic Capital and CSFB Alternative Capital. Production is located in Norway, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Estonia India, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Head office...

     Group.
  • Amgen
    Amgen
    Amgen Inc. is an international biotechnology company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. Located in the Conejo Valley, Amgen is the world's largest independent biotech firm. The company employs approximately 17,000 staff members. Its products include Epogen, Aranesp, Enbrel, Kineret,...

  • Amico Laboratories
    Amico Laboratories
    Amico Laboratories Limited , also known as Amico Laboratories is a major pharmaceutical company based in Bangladesh. It is part of the Mona Group of Companies.-Corporate history:...

  • Anavex Life Sciences
    Anavex Life Sciences
    Anavex Life Sciences Corp. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of new drugs for the treatment of neurological diseases and cancer, utilizing its proprietary drug discovery SIGMACEPTOR™ platform. The Anavex portfolio comprises novel, wholly owned sigma receptor...

  • Apotex Inc.
  • Astellas Pharma
    Astellas Pharma
    is a Japanese pharmaceutical company, formed on 1 April 2005 from the merger of and .Astellas' franchise areas are urology, immunology , dermatology, cardiology, and infectious disease...

  • AstraZeneca
    AstraZeneca
    AstraZeneca plc is a global pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's seventh-largest pharmaceutical company measured by revenues and has operations in over 100 countries...

  • Avax Technologies
    Avax Technologies
    Avax Technologies, Inc is a Philadelphia based biotechnology company whose most advanced product candidate is MVax for melanoma. MVax is a cancer vaccine that received a Special Protocol Assessment agreement with the FDA in October 2006, and subsequently began a Phase III registration clinical...

  • Axcan Pharma
    Axcan Pharma
    Axcan Pharma Inc. is a privately held, Birmingham, Alabama-based, specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, markets and distributes a broad line of gastrointestinal products primarily in North America and Europe. Formerly traded publicly on NASDAQ, Axcan was acquired by TPG...


B-D

  • Bargn Farmaceutici Phils Co
    Bargn Farmaceutici Phils Co
    Bargn Farmaceutici Phils Co. is a company within the BargnGroup . The company specializes in Pharmaceuticals, Nutraceuticals, Cosmeceuticals and Cosmetics....

  • Barr
    Barr Pharmaceuticals
    Barr Pharmaceuticals was a global specialty pharmaceutical company that operated in more than 30 countries worldwide. Barr were engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients.-History:Barr...

  • Bausch & Lomb
    Bausch & Lomb
    Bausch & Lomb, an American company based in Rochester, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today. In addition to this main activity, in recent years the area of medical technology has been developed...

  • Baxter International
    Baxter International
    Baxter International Inc. , is an American health care company with headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois. The company primarily focuses on products to treat hemophilia, kidney disease, immune disorders and other chronic and acute medical conditions...

  • Bayer Schering Pharma AG
    Bayer Schering Pharma AG
    Bayer Schering Pharma AG is a research-centered pharmaceutical company that was formed by the merger of Schering with Bayer on 29 December 2006. The company was originally founded in 1851 by Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering . The company employs more than 26,000 people in 140 subsidiaries all...

  • Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd
    Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd
    Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd , also known as Beximco Pharma, is a pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh. It is part of the Beximco Group of Companies.-Corporate history:...

  • Bial
    Bial
    Bial is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in S. Mamede do Coronado, in Trofa, Porto district, Portugal. It was founded in 1924, being among the largest companies of its kind in Portugal....

  • Biogen Idec
    Biogen Idec
    Biogen Idec, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in drugs for neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders and cancer. The company was formed in 2003 by the merger of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen Inc. and San Diego, California-based IDEC Pharmaceuticals...

    , merger of Biogen and Idec Pharmaceuticals.
  • Biolex
    Biolex
    Biolex Therapeutics is a biotechnology firm in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. The company focuses on formation of difficult to synthesize proteins in Lemna, a duckweed. The duckweeds are a family of small aquatic plants that can be grown in sterile culture. Biolex has developed...

  • Bionovo
    Bionovo
    Bionovo is an American biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of botanically derived treatments for women's health and cancer based in Emeryville, California. The company currently has two drug candidates in U.S...

  • Biotecnol
    Biotecnol
    Biotecnol S.A. is a Portuguese research-based biotechnology company headquartered in Oeiras, Portugal. About 90% of the workforce and about 80% of the annual budget are devoted to research....

  • Biovail
    Biovail
    Biovail Corporation was a Canadian pharmaceutical company, operating internationally in all aspects of pharmaceutical products. Its major production facility was located in Steinbach, Manitoba...

  • Biovitrum
    Biovitrum
    Swedish Orphan Biovitrum is a Swedish pharmaceutical company, based in Stockholm, Sweden, with a product portfolio consisting of some 60 orphan and specialty pharmaceuticals.- History :...

  • Boehringer-Ingelheim
    Boehringer-Ingelheim
    C.H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Ko. KG is the parent company of Boehringer Ingelheim, which was founded in 1885 by Albert Boehringer in Ingelheim am Rhein. The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally...

  • Bosnalijek
    Bosnalijek
    Bosnalijek is the largest pharmaceutical company in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The organisation was established in 1951 and employs ~620 workers, out of which more than 50% have university level or higher qualifications. Its product portfolio consists of ~180 products. The company continues investment...

  • Bristol-Myers Squibb
    Bristol-Myers Squibb
    Bristol-Myers Squibb , often referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City. The company was formed in 1989, following the merger of its predecessors Bristol-Myers and the Squibb Corporation...

  • Cadila Healthcare
    Cadila Healthcare
    'Cadila Healthcare' is an Indian pharmaceutical company head quartered at Ahmedabad in Gujarat state of western India. The company is the fifth largest pharmaceutical company in India, with US$290m in turnover in 2004. It is a significant manufacturer of generic drugs...

  • Celgene
    Celgene
    Celgene Corporation is a manufacturer of drug therapies for cancer and inflammatory disorders. It is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Summit, New Jersey...

  • Cephalon
    Cephalon
    Cephalon, Inc. is a U.S. biopharmaceutical company co-founded in 1987 by Dr. Frank Baldino, Jr., a pharmacologist and former scientist with the DuPont Company, who served as the company's chairman and chief executive officer until his death in December 2010...

  • Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.
    Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.
    Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary drug manufacturer operating in Japan controlled by Hoffmann–La Roche, which owns 52% of the company...

  • Cipla
    Cipla
    Cipla Limited is a prominent Indian pharmaceutical company, best-known outside its home country for manufacturing low-cost anti-AIDS drugs for HIV-positive patients in developing countries...

  • Covance
    Covance
    Covance, Inc. , formerly Corning Incorporated, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, is a contract research organization , providing drug development and animal testing services...

  • Covidien
    Covidien
    Covidien , formerly Tyco Healthcare, is a healthcare device and supply company, incorporated in Dublin, Ireland, although its corporate offices are located in Mansfield, Massachusetts. On June 29, 2007, Covidien became an independent publicly traded company after being spun off from Tyco...

  • Crucell
    Crucell
    Crucell is a biotechnology company specializing in vaccines and antibodies. The firm, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is headquartered in Leiden, Netherlands...

  • CSL Limited
    CSL Limited
    CSL Limited is a global specialty biopharmaceutical company that researches, develops, manufactures and markets products to treat and prevent serious human medical conditions...

  • Daiichi Sankyo
  • Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma
    Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma
    is a pharmaceutical company based in Japan.The original Dainippon Pharmaceuticals was established in 1885 by Nagayo Sensai, a graduate of Tekijuku – the first private medical school in Japan established by Ogata Kōan. It was set up as a wholly private company invested by a number of people in...

  • Dawakhana Shifaul Amraz
    Dawakhana Shifaul Amraz
    Dawakhana Shifaul Amraz , was a Unani pharmaceutical company established in 1894 at Tijara, India. It was one of the largest manufacturer of many Unani medicine before the partition of India.-History:...

  • Debiopharm
    Debiopharm
    Debiopharm Group™ is a global biopharmaceutical group of companies comprising Debiopharm S.A., Debio R.P. S.A. , Debioclinic S.A. and the two financial arms Debiomanagement S.A. and Debioinnovation S.A...

  • Diabetology Ltd
    Diabetology Ltd
    Diabetology Ltd is a biopharmaceutical company based in Saint Helier, Jersey.It was founded in November 2002 and is developing oral drugs for the treatment of diabetes mellitus.-Products:...

  • Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
    Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
    Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. is an integrated pharmaceutical company focused on providing medicines through its three business segments: Global Generics segment, Pharmaceutical Services and Active Ingredients segment and Proprietary Products segment. The company was founded by Dr...


E-J

  • Ego Pharmaceuticals
    Ego Pharmaceuticals
    Ego Pharmaceuticals is a privately-held Australian pharmaceutical company with subsidiaries in Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom, as well as staff in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia...

  • Eisai (company)
  • Élan
    Élan
    Élan Corporation plc is a major drugs firm based in Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland which has major interests in the United States. In the late 1990s its value on the Irish Stock Exchange reached over €20bn. It has secondary listings on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange....

     Corporation
  • Eli Lilly and Company
    Eli Lilly and Company
    Eli Lilly and Company is a global pharmaceutical company. Eli Lilly's global headquarters is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the United States...

  • Elorac
    Elorac
    Elorac, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on advancing treatments in dermatology. It is based in Vernon Hills, Illinois. According to the company’s website, Elorac specializes in prescription based dermatology products, with a focus on medications used in the treatment of...

    , Inc.
  • Emergent BioSolutions
    Emergent BioSolutions
    Emergent BioSolutions is a multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. Emergent develops vaccines and therapeutics targeting infectious diseases, oncology and autoimmune disorders. Founded as BioPort Corporation in 1998, the company was named Emergent...

  • Eskayef Bangladesh Limited
    Eskayef Bangladesh Limited
    Eskayef Bangladesh Limited, also known as SK+F, is a pharmaceutical company based in Bangladesh. It is part of the Transcom Group.- Corporate history :...

  • F. Hoffmann–La Roche Ltd., which owns Genentech
    Genentech
    Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...

     and Chugai Pharmaceuticals
  • Ferozsons Laboratories
    Ferozsons Laboratories
    The Ferozsons Laboratories Limited, incorporated as a Private Limited Company in 1954, became Pakistan's first local pharmaceutical company to be listed on the country's stock exchanges in 1960. It commenced production in 1956....

  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals
    Ferring Pharmaceuticals
    Ferring Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company that specializes in the development and marketing of drugs for use in human medicine.It was founded by Frederik Paulsen Sr in Malmö, Sweden, in 1950, initially as the Nordiska Hormon Laboratoriet, renamed Ferring in 1954. A ferring in Frisian is a...

  • Forest Laboratories
    Forest Laboratories
    Forest Laboratories is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, USA. Its revenues for the year ended 31 March 2007 were US$3.4 billion. The company's research and development spending has grown rapidly in recent years, and as of 2007, approached almost a billion US dollars a year,...

  • Fresenius Medical Care
    Fresenius Medical Care
    Fresenius Medical Care is a German company specializing in the production of medical supplies, primarily to facilitate or aid renal dialysis. It is 36%-owned by the health care company Fresenius. The company was formed in 1996 from the merger of Fresenius Worldwide Dialysis, then a division of...

  • Galapagos NV
    Galapagos NV
    Galapagos is a mid-size biotechnology company specialized in the discovery and development of small molecule and antibody therapies with novel modes-of-action. The Company is progressing one of the largest pipelines in biotech, with seven clinical and over 50 small molecule discovery/pre-clinical...

  • Galderma Laboratories
    Galderma Laboratories
    Galderma is a global leading pharmaceutical company specializing in the research, development and marketing of innovative medical solutions in dermatology...

  • Genentech
    Genentech
    Genentech Inc., or Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a biotechnology corporation, founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert Boyer. Trailing the founding of Cetus by five years, it was an important step in the evolution of the biotechnology industry...

    , a subsidiary of Hoffmann-La Roche
    Hoffmann-La Roche
    F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. is a Swiss global health-care company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange....

  • Genzyme
    Genzyme
    Genzyme Corporation is a fully owned subsidiary of Sanofi-Aventis. Before its acquisition, Genzyme was an American biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2010, Genzyme was the world’s third-largest biotechnology company, employing more than 11,000 people around the world...

  • Goodwin Biotechnology
  • Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar)
    Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar)
    As the common saying goes, “Healh is Wealth.” is committed to ensuring good health for the community at large. Julphar has the distinction of being not only the first pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Arab Gulf States, but also the only pharmaceutical producer of its scale and size in the...

  • Getz Pharma
    Getz Pharma
    Getz Pharma, the largest branded generic pharmaceutical company in Pakistan, started its operations in 1995. Since its inception, Getz Pharma has shown unparalleled growth both in qualitative as well as quantitative aspects. According to the IMS, Getz Pharma was ranked 195th out of 200 Pharma...

  • Gilead Sciences
    Gilead Sciences
    Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics. For many years since the company was founded, the company concentrated primarily on antiviral drugs to treat patients infected with HIV, hepatitis B or influenza. In 2006, Gilead acquired two...

  • GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...

  • GPC Biotech
    GPC Biotech
    GPC Biotech is a German biopharmaceutical company. The company's mission statement reads "... to discover, develop and commercialize new anticancer drugs."...

  • Hetero Drugs
    Hetero Drugs
    Hetero Drugs Limited is an Indian Pharmaceutical Company established in the year 1993. Hetero Drugs Limited founded by Dr. B. Partha Saradhi Reddy Phd., a scientist and expert in chemistry...

  • Hexal Australia
    Hexal Australia
    Hexal Australia is a large pharmaceutical manufacturer, formed in 1995 with Hexal AG Germany.Hexal which was privately owned, one of the largest manufacturers in Europe of generic pharmaceuticals has been acquired by Sandoz....

  • Hikma Pharmaceuticals
  • Hoffmann–La Roche
  • Hospira
    Hospira
    Hospira, Inc. is a U.S.-based global pharmaceutical and medical device company with headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois. It has approximately 14,000 employees. Hospira is the world's largest producer of generic injectable pharmaceuticals, manufacturing generic acute-care and oncology...

  • IMULAN BioTherapeutics, LLC
    IMULAN BioTherapeutics, LLC
    -About:IMULAN BioTherapeutics, LLC, is a veterinary immunobiology company developing a range of immune based therapies for veterinary medicine. IMULAN BioTherapeutics, LLC has several divisions related to immuno-biology and comparative medicine....

  • Institute for OneWorld Health
    Institute for OneWorld Health
    OneWorld Health is a 501 nonprofit drug development organization founded in 2000. Its mission is to discover, develop, and deliver safe, effective and affordable new treatments and interventions for people with neglected infectious diseases in the developing countries, with an emphasis on diseases...

  • Intas Biopharmaceuticals
    Intas Biopharmaceuticals
    Intas Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. is an Indian biotechnology company headquartered in Ahmedabad, India. Located in the Moraiya,Ahmedabad,it is one of the leading biosimilar product manufacturer in Asia....

  • Intercytex
    Intercytex
    Intercytex LTD is a biopharmaceutical company based in Alderley Edge, UK.-History:Intercytex was originally founded in 2000 and listed on the Alternative Investment Market in February 2006. As a result of the recession and disappointing trial results with another product, Intercytex plc delisted...

  • Interphil Laboratories
    Interphil Laboratories
    Interphil Laboratories, Inc. is the largest pharmaceutical toll manufacturer in the Philippines and in Asia today. It manufactures and packages all types of dosage forms for the industry...

  • Janssen Pharmaceutica
    Janssen Pharmaceutica
    Janssen Pharmaceutica is pharmaceutical company, established in Belgium in 1953 by Paul Janssen. Its headquarters are located in Beerse, in the Campine region of the province of Antwerp, Belgium. It was created not as a subsidiary of a chemical factory but solely with the aim of conducting...

     Products, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

  • Jenapharm
    Jenapharm
    Jenapharm is a pharmaceutical company from Jena, Germany. Founded in 1950 in East Germany, the company focused from the beginning on the production and development of steroids...

    , a subsidiary of Bayer Schering Pharma
  • JN-International Medical Corporation
    JN-International Medical Corporation
    JN-International Medical Corporation is a U.S. based biopharmaceutical corporation which since 1998 has been focused on developing vaccines and diagnostics for infectious disease for developing countries. This private corporation was founded in 1998 by Dr. Jeeri R. Reddy with the help of Dr. Kelly F...

  • Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....


K-L

  • King Pharmaceuticals
    King Pharmaceuticals
    King Pharmaceuticals , was the world's 39th largest pharmaceutical company, based in Bristol, Tennessee. However, on October 12, 2010, King was acquired by Pfizer for $14.25 per share. King produced a wide range of pharmaceuticals, including Altace for heart attack prevention, Levoxyl for...

  • Krka, d. d.
    Krka (company)
    Krka, d.d., Novo mesto is an international generic pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. It is one of the leading generic pharmaceutical companies in the world. In 2010, the Krka Group’s total sales were worth EUR 1,010.0 million. Over the past five years, average annual...

  • Kyowa Hakko
  • Lundbeck
    Lundbeck
    H. Lundbeck A/S is a Danish international pharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development, production, marketing, and sale of drugs for the treatment of disorders in the central nervous system , including depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease,...

  • Lupin Laboratories
    Lupin Ltd.
    Lupin Ltd. is world's largest manufacturer of the anti-TB drugs based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The company production contains the Cardiovascular , Diabetology, Asthma, Pediatrics, CNS, GI, Anti-Infectives and NSAIDs therapy and world largest manufacturer of Anti-TB and Cephalosporins...


M

  • Melior Discovery
    Melior Discovery
    Melior Discovery, Inc. is a private biopharmaceutical company based in Exton, Pennsylvania, USA. The company specializes in drug repositioning and has established a technology it uses for this purpose. According to the company’s website, Melior also offers certain contract research...

  • Menarini
    Menarini
    The Menarini Group is an Italian pharmaceutical company. It was founded in Naples, Italy, in 1886, and has three divisions: Menarini Ricerche, Menarini Biotech and Menarini Diagnostics. It is committed to the search for pharmacological solutions for such therapeutic areas as cardiovascular...

  • Merck & Co.
    Merck & Co.
    Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...

  • Merck KGaA
    Merck KGaA
    Merck KGaA is a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. Merck, also known as “German Merck” and “Merck Darmstadt”, was founded in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1668, making it the world's oldest operating chemical and pharmaceutical company. The company was privately owned until going public in 1995...

  • Mitsubishi Pharma
    Mitsubishi Pharma
    is a Japanese pharmaceuticals company, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation. It was formed in 2001 from the merger of Mitsubishi-Tokyo Pharamceuticals and Welfide Corporation.-History:...

  • Mylan

O

  • Orion Pharma
  • Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical
    Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical
    The company was formed from the merger of Ortho Pharmaceutical and McNeil Pharmaceutical in 1993. Both of these pharmaceutical companies are pioneers and leaders in areas such as pain management, acid reflux disease, and infectious diseases...

    , a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.
    Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.
    , abbreviated OPC, is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Tokyo, Osaka and Naruto, Japan. The company was established August 10, 1964, and currently has approximately 27,000 employees worldwide. The company focuses on pharmaceuticals related to nutrition...


P

  • Panacea Biotec Ltd
    Panacea Biotec
    Panacea Biotec is an Indian research based pharmaceutical and health management company involved in research, manufacturing, and marketing of pharmaceutical formulations, vaccines, and natural products...

  • Patheon
    Patheon
    Patheon Inc. is a contract pharmaceutical company, based in Ontario, Canada. The company undertakes development, manufacturing and packaging of pharmaceutical products, both prescription and over the counter , for a plethora of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, at sites...

  • Par Pharmaceutical
    Par Pharmaceutical
    Par Pharmaceutical develops, manufactures and markets generic and branded specialty pharmaceuticals. Par was founded in 1978 and initially traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1987...

  • Perrigo
    Perrigo
    Perrigo Company , is the largest manufacturer of private label over-the-counter pharmaceuticals in the United States. The company’s shares are traded on the NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; as a result of the merger with Agis Industries the company is a constituent of the TA-25...

  • Pfizer
    Pfizer
    Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...

  • Pharmacosmos
    Pharmacosmos
    Pharmacosmos is an independent, international pharmaceutical company specialized in treatment of iron deficiency anemia. Founded in Denmark in 1965, it has become one of the world's leading companies in iron deficiency anemia care...

  • Pharma Nord
    Pharma Nord
    Pharma Nord is an international pharmaceutical company with corporate headquarters in Vejle, Denmark and manufacturing facility and research laboratories in Vojens, Denmark. Pharma Nord has 25 daughter companies throughout Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East...

  • Pierre Fabre Group
  • Piramal Healthcare
  • Pliva
    Pliva
    Pliva d.d. is a Croatian pharmaceutical company, based in Zagreb, Croatia. One of the world's largest producers of generic Adderall, it has seen drastic increases in revenue with an increasing number of patients being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder . It is the largest pharmaceutical...

  • Procter & Gamble
    Procter & Gamble
    Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

  • Purdue Pharma
    Purdue Pharma
    Purdue Pharma L.P., is a privately held pharmaceutical company founded by physicians and now located in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. In its early years, Purdue was known for its antiseptic product, Betadine Solution, and its Senokot laxatives...


R

  • Ranbaxy Laboratories
    Ranbaxy Laboratories
    Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited is a pharmaceutical company that was incorporated in India in 1961. The company went public in 1973 and Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo gained majority control in 2008...

    , generics arm of Daiichi Sankyo
  • Renovo
  • Respa Pharmaceuticals
    Respa Pharmaceuticals
    Respa Pharmaceuticals Inc is a pharmaceutical company founded in 1992. Its current headquarters is based in Addison, IL.Respa manufactures several pharmaceutical drugs, the most well-known of which is the allergy drugs.-External links:*...

  • Rubicon Research
    Rubicon Research
    Rubicon Research is a contract research and a Drug delivery company Located in Mumbai, India. In formulation development, Rubicon has a presence in all therapeutic areas excluding cytotoxic drugs, beta-lactum antibiotics and steroids. Kotak Private Equity has invested in Rubicon...


S

  • Sanofi-Aventis
    Sanofi-Aventis
    Sanofi S.A. is a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, France, the world's fourth-largest by prescription sales. Sanofi engages in the research and development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products for sale principally in the prescription market, but the...

  • Square Pharmaceuticals
  • Schering-Plough
    Schering-Plough
    Schering-Plough Corporation was a United States-based pharmaceutical company. It was founded in 1851 by Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering as Schering AG in Germany. In 1971, the Schering Corporation merged with Plough to form Schering-Plough. On November 4, 2009 Merck & Co...

  • Sepracor
    Sepracor
    Sepracor, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company founded in 1984 by Tim Barberich. It was originally located in Princeton, New Jersey and then re-located to Marlborough, Massachusetts. On October 12, 2010, the company changed its name to Sunovion.-Company history:The company's initial focus was on the...

  • Servier Laboratories
    Servier Laboratories
    Servier Laboratories is a privately owned French pharmaceutical company that specialises in medication for cardiological and rheumatological conditions, as well as for diabetes and clinical depression. The consolidated turnover for the 2005/2006 financial year was €3.5 billion...

  • Shionogi
    Shionogi
    is a Japanese pharmaceutical company best known for developing Crestor. Medical supply and brand name also uses Shionogi .Shionogi has business roots that date back to 1878, and was incorporated in 1919. Among the medicines produced are for hyperlipidaemia, antibiotics, and cancer medicines.In...

  • Shire plc
  • Sigma Pharmaceuticals
    Sigma Pharmaceuticals
    Sigma Pharmaceuticals Limited is a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange that produces over-the-counter drugs and prescription medicine.- 2010 trading halt :...

  • Sinopharm Group
  • Solvay Group
    Solvay (company)
    Solvay S.A. is a Belgian chemical company with its head office in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium. It was founded in 1863 by Ernest Solvay to produce sodium carbonate by the solvay process. Since then the company has diversified to two major sectors of activity: chemicals and plastics...

  • STADA Arzneimittel
    STADA Arzneimittel
    Stada Arzneimittel AG is a pharmaceutical company based in Bad Vilbel, Germany which specializes in the production of generic and over-the-counter drugs...

  • Strides Arcolab
    Strides Arcolab
    Strides Arcolab is an Indian pharmaceutical company headquartered at Bangalore in southern India. Strides Arcolab Limited manufactures a range of ethical pharmaceutical products, over-the-counter products and nutraceuticals. The company's products include softgel capsule, hard-gel capsules, tablets...

  • Sun Pharmaceutical

T

  • Taiho Pharmaceutical
    Taiho Pharmaceutical
    is a Japanese pharmaceutical company among the 50 largest in the world by revenue. The company focuses on developing cancer treatments....

  • Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
    Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
    is the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and Asia and a top 15 pharmaceutical company. The company has over 19,000 employees worldwide and achieved $15.7 billion USD in revenue during the 2008 fiscal year...

  • TAP Pharmaceutical Products
    TAP Pharmaceutical Products
    TAP Pharmaceutical Products was formed in 1977 as a joint venture between the two global pharmaceutical companies, Abbott Laboratories and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. The company markets Prevacid and Lupron Depot , both leaders in their classes...

    , a joint-venture of Abbott
    Abbott Laboratories
    Abbott Laboratories is an American-based global, diversified pharmaceuticals and health care products company. It has 90,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr....

     and Takeda
    Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
    is the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and Asia and a top 15 pharmaceutical company. The company has over 19,000 employees worldwide and achieved $15.7 billion USD in revenue during the 2008 fiscal year...

    .
  • Temmler
    Temmler
    -History:The Temmler Werke GmbH was founded in Detmold in 1917 by commercial counsellor Hermann Temmler. The establishment of a subsidiary in Berlin followed shortly after...

  • Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
    Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
    Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. , is an international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel. It specializes in generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients...

  • Torrent Pharmaceuticals
    Torrent Pharmaceuticals
    Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is the flagship company of the Torrent Group. Based in Ahmedabad, it was promoted by U. N. Mehta initially as Trinity Laboratories Ltd. and was later renamed to its current name Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd....


U-Z

  • UCB
    UCB (company)
    UCB is a multinational biopharmaceutical manufacturing company headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.- History :UCB was founded on 18 January 1928 by Emmanuel Janssen, a Belgian businessman...

  • UNILAB
    United Laboratories
    United Laboratories or UNILAB - is the biggest Pharmaceutical Company in the Philippines. It was founded by Mr. J.Y. Campos in 1945 as a small corner drug store in Binondo, Manila...

    , also known as United Laboratories
  • Valeant Pharmaceuticals International
    Valeant Pharmaceuticals International
    Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company with activities spanning the drug discovery pipeline from target identification through clinical trials and commercialization. The focus of the company is on neurology, dermatology and infectious disease with several drugs in...

    , formerly ICN Pharmaceuticals.
  • Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
    Veloxis Pharmaceuticals
    Veloxis Pharmaceuticals A/S, formerly LifeCycle Pharma A/S, develops improved versions of difficult-to-formulate drugs with its proprietary drug formulation technology, called MeltDose®. The company was founded in 2002 as a spin-off from H. Lundbeck A/S and is listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen A/S...

  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals
    Vertex Pharmaceuticals
    Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company with activities spanning the length of the pharmaceutical product pipeline, from target identification through to clinical trials and marketing. Most of its activity has been in collaboration with much larger pharmaceutical firms, though some of its...

  • Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was a New Haven, Connecticut based pharmaceutical company founded in March 1992 to commercialize several discoveries made in the biomedical laboratories at Yale University. The company filed for bankruptcy on Dec. 17, 2009 after the U.S...

  • ViroPharma
    ViroPharma
    ViroPharma Incorporated, a pharmaceutical company, develops and sells drugs that address serious diseases treated by physician specialists and in hospital settings...

  • Warner Chilcott
    Warner Chilcott
    Warner Chilcott is a pharmaceutical company based in Rockaway, New Jersey, USA. It has production and research facilities in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Larne, Northern Ireland, Dundalk, Ireland and Weiterstadt, Germany. It is primarily focused on two core therapeutic areas: women’s healthcare and...

  • Watson Pharmaceuticals
    Watson Pharmaceuticals
    Watson Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated is the 5th largest pharmaceutical company in the United States based on number of prescriptions dispensed...

  • Wockhardt
    Wockhardt
    Wockhardt Ltd. is a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company has manufacturing plants in India, UK, Ireland, France and US, and subsidiaries in US, UK, Ireland and France. It is a global company with a more than half of its revenue coming from Europe. The...

  • Wyeth
    Wyeth
    Wyeth, formerly one of the companies owned by American Home Products Corporation , was a pharmaceutical company. The company was based in Madison, New Jersey, USA...

    , a subsidiary of Pfizer
    Pfizer
    Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...

  • Zandu Pharmaceuticals
    Zandu Realty
    Zandu Realty Limited is an international pharmaceutical company based in Mumbai, India. Company's core business of manufacturing and dealing in ayurvedic and medicinal preparations.-History:...

  • Zentiva
    Zentiva
    Zentiva , is an international pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing and marketing modern generic pharmaceutical products. The Company has leading positions in the pharmaceutical markets in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Turkey and is growing in Poland, Russia,...


See also

  • EuropaBio
    EuropaBio
    EuropaBio is Europe's largest and most influential biotech industry group, whose members include Monsanto, Bayer and other biotechnology companies...

    , the European Association for Bioindustries
  • European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs
    EUCOPE
    The European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs AISBL was founded in autumn 2008. It is a trans-European Association for Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs...

  • European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
    European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
    European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations is a Brussels-based trade union founded in 1978 representing the research-based pharmaceutical industry operating in Europe....

     (EFPIA)
  • History of pharmacy
    History of pharmacy
    The history of pharmacy as an independent science is relatively young. The origins of historiography pharmaceutical back to the first third of the nineteenth century which is when the first historiographies that while not touching all aspects of pharmaceutical history is the starting point for the...

  • International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations
  • List of biotechnology companies
  • List of pharmaceutical manufacturers in the UK
  • Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
    Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
    Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America , founded in 1958, is a trade group representing the pharmaceutical research and biopharmaceutical companies in the United States. PhRMA's stated mission is advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of new medicines for patients...

    (PhRMA)
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