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This is a list of manufacturers and suppliers of pharmaceuticals with operations in the United Kingdom. Note: the activities of the parent companies of many of the companies listed below are not restricted solely to the United Kingdom.
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Genovese Drug Stores (acquired by Eckerd parent JC Penney in 1998; rebranded in 2003) Gray Drug (Bought by Rite Aid in 1987) Happy Harry's (bought by Walgreens in 2006; rebranded in 2011) Hook's Drug Stores (acquired by Revco in 1994) IDL Drug Stores; Jean Coutu (US stores acquired by Rite Aid in 2004) K&B (Acquired by Rite Aid in 1997)
Boots UK is the UK's leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. Alliance Boots is also the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the UK through its Alliance Healthcare (Distribution) Ltd business. The company employs over 120,000 staff and operates more than 4,600 retail stores, of which just over 4,450 have pharmacies.
[1] [2] In 2007 exports of pharmaceutical products from the UK totalled £14.6 billion, creating a trade surplus in pharmaceutical products of £4.3 billion. [3] UK Pharmaceutical employment of 73,000 in 2017 [4] compares to 114,000 as of 2015 in Germany, [5] 92,000 as of 2014 in France [6] and 723,000 in the European Union as a whole. [6]
This listing is limited to those independent companies and subsidiaries notable enough to have their own articles in Wikipedia. Both going concerns and defunct firms are included, as well as firms that were part of the pharmaceutical industry at some time in their existence, provided they were engaged in the production of human (as opposed to veterinary) therapeutics.
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Pages in category "Pharmaceutical companies of the United Kingdom" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .