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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.
Alliance Healthcare, formerly Alliance UniChem, is a wholesaler, distributor and retailer of pharmaceutical, surgical, medical, and healthcare products throughout Europe. The company supplies more than 110,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centres, and hospitals from over 288 distribution centres in 11 countries.
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 is a list of the largest trading partners of the United Kingdom based on data from Office for National Statistics Pink Book for 2017 Goods and Services. [ 1 ] Trade in GBP £ Millions
The following table lists the largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies ranked by revenue in billion USD. The change column indicates the company's relative position in this list compared to its relative position in the preceding year; i.e., an increase would be moving closer to rank 1 and vice versa.
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is the trade association for over 120 companies in the UK producing prescription medicines for humans, founded in 1891. [1] It is the British equivalent of America's PhRMA ; however, the member companies research, develop, manufacture and supply medicines prescribed for the National ...