Top 10 Biggest Pharmacy Companies In the World 

The pharmaceutical industry includes companies that engage in research and development, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of chemical and biological drugs for human and animals. According to Statista, the global pharmaceutical market was worth nearly 1.3 trillion US dollars.

As the top pharma companies are at war against COVID-19, the global pharmaceutical industry is seeing the positive growth. Pandemic has also been great for many healthcare businesses. With demand for treatments ever increasing, pharmaceutical giants around the world are conducting innovation to create medical needs. These pharma giants can be found in a countries, including the U.S., China, European Union, Japan, India, U.K. and more. The following is a list of the world’s top 10 pharmaceutical companies ranked by their revenue in 2019. 

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10. Sanofi S.A. :-

Sanofi S.A. is a French multinational pharmaceutical corporation. It is headquartered in Paris, France. It is the world's fifth-largest by prescription sales. Sanofi is a full member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The company had a revenue of €36.12 billion and has 99,412 employees.

The corporation was established in 1973 and merged with Synthélabo in 1999 to form Sanofi-Synthélabo. Sanofi-Synthélabo merged with Aventis in 2004 and was renamed  Sanofi-Aventis. And again switched its name back to Sanofi in May 2011. It offers products that include Pharmaceuticals, generic drugs, over-the-counter drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, contact lenses. The company operates worldwide with its subsidiaries including Sanofi Pasteur, Genzyme, Shantha Biotechnics, Chattem, Ablynx, Bioverativ. Sanofi engages in the research and development, manufacturing and dealing of pharmaceutical drugs principally in the drug market, but the firm also develops over-the-counter medication. The corporation encompasses seven major therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, central nervous system, diabetes, internal medicine, oncology, thrombosis and vaccines.

9. AbbVie :-

AbbVie is an American publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company founded in 2013. It originated as a spin-off of Abbott Laboratories. It was founded in 2013. It is headquartered in Lake Bluff, Illinois, United States. It had revenue of US$45.804 Billion and has 47,000 employees.

The company operates worldwide and offers products comprising Pharmaceutical drugs, Humira, Imbruvica, Venclexta, Zinbryta, Kaletra, Novartis, Mavyret/Maviret, Skyrizi. In 2011, Abbott Laboratories announced its plan to segregate into two publicly traded companies. The new Abbott Laboratories would specialize in various products including medical devices, diagnostic equipment and nutrition products, while AbbVie would administer as a research-based pharmaceutical manufacturer.

8. GlaxoSmithKline :-

GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) is a British multinational pharmaceutical company. It is headquartered in London, England. GSK was the world's sixth-largest pharmaceutical company after Pfizer, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, and Merck & Co. GSK is the tenth largest pharmaceutical company ranked behind other pharmaceutical companies including China Resources, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Sinopharm, Pfizer, Novartis, Bayer, Merck, and Sanofi. It had a revenue of GB£34.099 billion and has 99,000 employees. The company created the first malaria vaccine, RTS, S.

The company was established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. It offers its products Worldwide and offers products including Pharmaceuticals, vaccines, oral healthcare, nutritional products, over-the-counter medicines. It also operates subsidiaries including Stiefel Laboratories, Tesaro, ViiV Healthcare. The products developed at GSK include Essential Medicines, such as amoxicillin, mercaptopurine, pyrimethamine, and zidovudine. GSK manufactures products for major disease areas such as asthma, cancer, infections, diabetes and mental health. The medicines found by GSK and its companies include amoxicillin and amoxicillin-clavulanate, ticarcillin-clavulanate, mupirocin, and ceftazidime for bacterial infections, zidovudine for HIV infection, valacyclovir for herpes virus infections, albendazole for parasitic infections, sumatriptan for migraine, lamotrigine for epilepsy, bupropion and paroxetine for major depressive disorder, cimetidine and ranitidine for gastroesophageal reflux disorder, mercaptopurine and thioguanine for the treatment of leukaemia, allopurinol for gout, pyrimethamine for malaria, and the antibacterial trimethoprim. GSK had offices in over 115 countries and employed over 99,000 people, 12,500 in R&D. The company's single largest market in the United States. 

7. Merck & Co. :-

Merck & Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. It is headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey. It is named after the Merck family, which set up Merck Group in Germany in 1668. The company does business as Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1891 as a subsidiary of Merck by Theodore Weicker
George Merckn. It had revenue of US$47.994 billion and has 74,000 employees.

The company provide products Worldwide like Pharmaceuticals, generic drugs, over-the-counter drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, contact lenses, Veterinary medicine. Merck develops and produces medicines, vaccines, biological therapies and animal health products. The company had 6 blockbuster drugs or products, each with over $1 billion in revenues including cancer immunotherapy, anti-diabetic medication and vaccines against HPV and chickenpox. It has six blockbuster drugs or products each with one billion in revenue including cancer immunotherapy, anti-diabetic medication and vaccines against HPV and chickenpox. The company develops medicines, vaccines, biological therapies and animal health products.

6. Novartis :-

Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical corporation located in Basel, Switzerland. It is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
Novartis is a full member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). It had revenue of US$49.89 billion and has 110,000 employees.

The company was founded by Johann Rudolf and Alexander Clavel. Novartis was founded in March 1996 from the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories. The company provides services worldwide and offers products including Pharmaceuticals, generic drugs, over-the-counter drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, contact lenses, animal health. Novartis manufactures the drugs clozapine, carbamazepine, valsartan, imatinib mesylate, cyclosporine, letrozole, methylphenidate, terbinafine, deferasirox. Novartis's businesses are divided into three operating divisions: Innovative Medicines, Sandoz (generics) and Alcon (eye care). The Innovative Medicines division comprises two business units: Novartis Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Oncology.

5. Bayer :-

Bayer AG is a German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It had a revenue of €43.545 billion and has 103,824 employees. Bayer's first and recognized product was aspirin. 

It was founded on 1 August 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and his partner, Johann Friedrich Wescott, a master dyer in Barmen in 1863 as a dyestuffs factory. It provides products Worldwide includes Veterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and speciality medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, diabetes care, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Bayer involves in areas of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products; agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products. Bayer was responsible for the commercial tasks. Fuchsine and aniline became the company's most important products.

4. Pfizer :-

Pfizer Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation. It is headquartered in Manhattan, New York City. It had a revenue of $41.908 billion and has 78,500 employees.

The company was founded in 1849 by two German migrants, Charles Pfizer and his cousin Charles F. Erhart in New York who had immigrated to the United States from Ludwigsburg, Germany, the year before. The company provides products worldwide and offers products including Pharmaceuticals and vaccines. Pfizer develops and produces medicines and vaccines for immunology, oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, and neurology. The company has several blockbuster drugs or products that each generate more than US$1 billion in annual revenues.

3. Roche :-

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, also known as Roche, is a Swiss multinational healthcare company. It is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Roche is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world and the leading provider of cancer treatments globally. It had a revenue of CHF 58.323 billion and has 101,200 employees. The company operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics.

It was founded in 1896 by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche. It offers products like Pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Hoffmann-La Roche is dominant in the field of pharmaceuticals for cancer treatment, against virus diseases and for treatment of metabolic diseases. The company is the world's largest spender in pharmaceutical R&D. The company was early on known for producing various vitamin preparations and derivatives. It became the first company to mass-produce synthetic vitamin C, under the brand name Redoxon. 

2. Sinopharm :-

China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation (CNPGC) also known as Sinopharm, is a Chinese state-owned enterprise. It is headquarters in Haidian District, Beijing. It was founded on November 26, 1998.

The company operates mainly in China but is exported worldwide. It had a revenue of CN¥247.110 billion. China National Pharmaceutical Group was supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.

1. Johnson & Johnson :-

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational corporation. It is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It had a revenue of US$82.584 billion and has 134,500 employees. The consumer division is located in Skillman, New Jersey. The corporation includes some 250 subsidiary companies with operations in 60 countries and products sold in over 175 countries. The firm develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods. 

It was founded in January 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey by Robert Wood Johnson I, James Wood Johnson, Edward Mead Johnson. The company operates worldwide through its subsidiaries including Acclarent, Actelion, Cilag, DePuy Synthes, Ethicon, Janssen Biotech and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. The company's business is divided into three major business sectors: Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, and Consumer Health. The Pharmaceutical segment is focused on six therapeutic areas including Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Neuroscience, Oncology, Cardiovascular, Metabolism, Retina and Pulmonary Hypertension.