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Top 50 Pharmaceutical Companies

Rank 2004 Company Country Healthcare R&D 2004 (USD millions) Employees 2004
1 Pfizer USA 7,684 115,000
2 Johnson & Johnson USA 5,203 109,900
3 GlaxoSmithKline UK 5,204 100,619
4 Sanofi-Aventis France 4,927 96,439
5 Novartis Switzerland 4,207 81,392
6 Hoffmann-La Roche Switzerland 4,098 64,703
7 Merck & Co. USA 4,010 62,600
8 AstraZeneca UK 3,803 64,200
9 Abbott Laboratories USA 1,697 50,600
10 Bristol-Myers Squibb USA 2,500 43,000
11 Wyeth USA 2,461 51,401
12 Eli Lilly and Company USA 2,591 44,500
13 Bayer Germany 1,299 113,060
14 Amgen USA 2,028 14,400
15 Boehringer Ingelheim Germany 1,532 35,529
16 Baxter International USA 517 48,000
17 Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Japan 1,285 14,510
18 Schering-Plough USA 1,607 30,500
19 Astellas Pharma Japan 1,213 15,500
20 Procter & Gamble USA n/a 110,000
21 Schering Germany 1,143 26,131
22 Merck KGaA Germany 611 28,877
23 Eisai Co. Japan 744 8,295
24 Novo Nordisk Denmark 727 20,285
25 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Israel 338 13,813
26 Genentech USA 948 7,646
27 Sankyo Co. Japan 822 11,444
28 Akzo Nobel The Netherlands 644 61,400
29 Alcon Switzerland 390 12,200
30 Forest Laboratories USA 294 5,136
31 Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co. Japan 546 7,333
32 Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Japan 463 5,327
33 Taisho Pharmaceutical Japan 221 5,378
34 Altana Germany 506 10,783
35 Serono Switzerland 595 4,902
36 Bausch & Lomb USA 163 12,400
37 Mitsubishi Pharma Japan 480 5,917
38 Biogen Idec USA 684 4,266
39 Genzyme USA 392 7,100
40 Solvay Belgium 366 29,300
41 UCB Belgium 404 11,403
42 Allergan USA 346 5,030
43 Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Japan 230 5,960
44 Shionogi & Co. Japan 279 5,522
45 Ivax USA 142 10,100
46 Chiron Corporation USA 431 5,400
47 Watson Pharmaceuticals USA 134 3,851
48 H. Lundbeck Denmark 296 5,155
49 Sumitomo Chemical Co. Japan 239 20,195
50 Tanabe Seiyaku Co. Japan 264 4,517

Source: Top 50 pharmaceutical companies, MedAdNews, September 2005

 

Alphabetical listing

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

 

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.

 

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M-Z

 

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