World Famous Pharmaceutical Companies with Originating Country

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the highly regulated industries in the world, with many rules and regulations enforced by the government/regulatory bodies to protect the health and well-being of the public. Every country has its own regulations which apply to research, drug development, clinical study, manufacturing, testing, marketing and post marketing studies. The aim is to regulate the price of the drug and to maintain the standards of the drug at every step to cater for patient population of each country.

Pharmaceutical industry is dealing with therapeutic and diagnostic products that combine API’s, Drug products, Devices and/or Biological products. Here is the list of globally famous pharmaceutical companies and their country of origin.

Company	Originating Country
Pfizer	USA
Johnson and Johnson	USA
Merck & Co	USA
AbbVie	USA
Amgen	USA
Gilead Sciences	USA
Bristol –Myers Squibb	USA
Eli Lilly	USA
Celgene	USA
Mylan	USA (Domiciled in Netherlands)
Biogen Idec	USA
Abbot	USA
Alexion pharmaceuticals	USA
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals	USA
Vertex Pharmaceuticals	USA
Takeda	Japan
Astellas Pharma	Japan
Daiichi Sankyo	Japan
Eisai Co	Japan
Otsuka Holdings	Japan
Chugai Pharmaceutical	Japan
Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma	Japan
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma	Japan
Boehringer Ingelheim	Germany
Bayer	Germany
Merck KGaA	Germany
Stada Arzneimittel	Germany
Fresenius	Germany
GSK	UK
AstraZeneca	UK
Shire	UK
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals	UK
Roche	Switzerland
Novartis	Switzerland
Ferring Pharmaceuticals	Switzerland
Sanofi	France
Ipsen	France
Les Laboratories Servier	France
Allergan	Ireland
Endo Health Pharmaceuticals	Ireland
Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine	China
Sino Biopharmaceutical	China
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	Israel
CSL	Australia
Novo Nordisk	Denmark
Bausch Health companies	Canada
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries	India
Grifols	Spain
UCB	Belgium
Menarini	Italy