Top 10 Pharmaceutical Companies in the World 2014

1.Johnson & Johnson:

Johnson & Johnson is founded in 1886 as the Pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer. It manufactures the consumer products like Band-Aid, Tylenol Medications,Johnson's Baby products,Beauty Products and Acuvue Contact Lenses. It has turn over of 71.3 Billion in 2013 and $67.2 Billion in 2012 which makes Johnson & Johnson the leading Pharmaceutical company in the world.

2. Novartis:

Novartis is a Swiss based Multinational Company. Joseph Jimenez is the CEO of Novartis International AG. It manufactures the drugs such asclozapine, diclodenac,valsartan,carbamazepine and others. It has the revenue of $57.920 Billion in 2013 and $56.6 Billion in 2012.

3.Roche:

Roche is another swiss based leading drugmaker. There is a stable growth of 6% in market for Roche. It produces the cancer drugs Herceptin,Xeloda and avastic which have raise in sales in the past year. It has revenue of $46.7 Billion in 2013 and $45 Billion in 2012. Sandra Horning is the Roches's Cheif medical officer and Head of global product development.



4. Pfizer:

Pfizer produces the cholesterol lowering drugs which significantly raised the sales in pharmaceutical market. It produces Lipitor which is a cholesterol lowering drug and Lyrica is a pain drug. Pfizer generates revenue of $51.5 Billion in 2013 and $58.9 in the year 2012.

5. Sanofi:

Sanofi is a french drug maker which is fifth largest pharma company. Chris Viehbacher is the CEO of the Sanofi Pharma Company. It produces the diabetes control drugs Lantus which raised the sales and revenue in a large extent. It generated revenue of $47.9 Billion in 2012 and $45 in 2013.

6. GlaxoSmithKline:

GlaxoSmithKline produced the Melanoma drugs Tafinlar and Mekinist helped in growing the revenues by 22%. Recently, Glaxo has 5 new dug approvals in the British Pharma giant. It generated revenue of $44.1 Billion in 2013 and $39 Billion in 2012.

7. Merck:

Merck Manufactures inflammatory disease cure drugs Ramicade and Simponi and Respiratory drug Dulera. It once under siege due to production copycat drugs Singulair which effected the revenue of the Company. It generated $44.03 Billion in 2013 and $47.2 Billion in 2012.

8. Bayer Healthcare:

Bayer health care is eighth largest pharma company in the world. It manufactures drugs blood thinner Xarelto and eye medicine Eylead which are leading revenue makers in Bayers Health care. It generated revenue of $25.9 Billion in 2013 and $24.3 Billion in 2012.

9.AstraZeneca:

Astrazeneca manufactures the drugs related to Brilinta,Diabetes, Respiratory systems. These are the major revenue makers in the company which has constant growth in the sales and revenue in the pharma industry. It generated revenue of $25.7 Billion in 2013 and $27.970 Billion in 2012.

10. Eli Lilly:

Eli Lilly is the Indianapolis based drugmaker. John Lechleiter is the CEO of the Eli Lilly Pharma Company. The fall in the drug Zyprexa brought revenue down in the company which made 10 in this list. It generated revenue of $23 Billion in 2013 and $22.6 Billion in the year 2012.

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