The Top 25 Global Pharmaceutical Companies by 2011 Sales

The Pharmaceutical Executive magazine published earlier this year its annual ranking of the Top 50 Pharmaceutical Companies by revenue. The following table lists the top 25 global companies ranked based on sales in 2011:

S.No.CompanyTicker2011 Rx Sales (in $ Billions)Country
1PfizerPFE$57.70USA
2NovartisNVS$54.00Switzerland
3MerckMRK$41.30USA
4SanofiSNY$37.00France
5RocheRHHBY$34.90Switzerland
6GlaxoSmithKlineGSK$34.40UK
7AstraZenecaAZN$33.60UK
8Johnson & JohnsonJNJ$24.40USA
9AbbottABT$22.40USA
10Eli LillyLLY$21.90USA
11Bristol-Myers SquibbBMY$21.20USA
12TevaTEVA$16.70Israel
13AmgenAMGN$15.30USA
14TakedaTKPYY$15.20Japan
15Boehringer IngelheimN/A$13.80Germany
16BayerBAYRY$12.80Germany
17Daiichi SankyoDSNKY$11.60Japan
18Novo NordiskNVO$11.50Denmark
19AstellasALPMY$11.40Japan
20Gilead SciencesGILD$8.10USA
21OtsukaOTSKY$7.40Japan
22Merck KGaAMKGAY$7.20Germany
23Baxter InternationalBAX$6.10USA
24MylanMYL$5.50USA
25ServierN/A$5.00France

Source: Pharmaceutical Executive

The top 50 companies accounted sold $610 billion in human prescription pharmaceuticals last year and just the top 10 accounted for 59% of the total sales of the 50 companies. Four companies that dropped off the ranking due to mergers are Genzyme, Alcon, Cephalon and Nycomed. Israel-based world’s largest generic drug maker Teva(TEVA) was ranked at number 12. Amgen(AMGN) and Gilead Sciences(GILD), two of the hot biotech companies from the 90s, appear in the above list as well.

The complete list of the top 50 companies and other rankings can be found in the pdf document located here.

Related:

The World’s 50 Largest Pharmaceutical Companies by Sales (in 2010)

The Top 50 Global Pharma Companies 2013

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