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Note: the activities of the parent companies of many of the companies listed below are not restricted solely to the United Kingdom. For example, AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline , although headquartered in the United Kingdom, have activities in numerous other countries, and Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer are both headquartered in the United States ...
[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]
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.
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies.The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking.
GSK plc (an acronym from its former name GlaxoSmithKline plc) is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with headquarters in London. [3] [4] It was established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, [n 1] which was itself a merger of a number of pharmaceutical companies around the Smith, Kline & French firm.
For more companies, head on over to 5 Biggest European Pharmaceutical Companies. Alongside the United States, Europe has some of the most advanced industries and economies in the world.
London is one of the pre-eminent financial centres of the world and vies with New York City as the most important location for international finance. [4] [5] Over half of the UK's top 100 listed companies (the FTSE 100) and over 100 of Europe's 500 largest
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.