A Look At The Pharmaceutical Giants

Today’s highly interesting website provides some insightful information regarding revenues earned  by the giants of that industry in recent years. The correlation between revenues earned and Research & Development expenditure appears to be very strong indeed.

Key industry performance indicators displayed on this site include the following:

A list of the twelve largest pharmaceutical companies ranked here by revenue as of March 2010^[update] according to their released 2009 annual reports. Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Roche (all USA companies) dominate this list and are ranked 1, 2 & 3 in that order.

A list of the twelve largest pharmaceutical companies ranked by revenue as of July 2009^[update] in the Fortune Global 500. The top three positions are taken by Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (a United Kingdom company).

The following is a list of the 49 largest companies involved in pharmaceutical and biotech industry ranked by healthcare revenue as of 2008^[update]. Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Hoffman-LaRoche (a Swiss company) are ranked 1, 2 and 3.

The numerous links contained in this website, make it an invaluable source of  reference material for students and professional analysts.

The URL for today’s highlighted website is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pharmaceutical_companies