According to the Federal Statistical Office, there are around 580 pharmaceutical companies in Germany. In 2019, they achieved a total turnover of approximately 41.5 billion euros with more than 121,000 employees. Here is an overview of the 5 largest German pharmaceutical companies: This article is based on the unique List of the 150 largest pharmaceutical companies in Germany.
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Place 1: Roche Deutschland Holding GmbH, Grenzach-Wyhlen: 1.8 billion Euro sales (2018) / 61 billion CHF consolidated sales (2019)
Roche Deutschland Holding bundles the German business activities of the Swiss pharmaceutical group Hoffmann-La Roche. With sales of 61 billion CHF (2019) and over 94,000 employees, it is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. Roche Deutschland has almost 17,000 employees and includes the subsidiaries Roche Pharma AG, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Roche Diagnostics Deutschland GmbH and Roche mtm laboratories AG.
Place 2: Novartis Deutschland GmbH, Nuremberg: 4.1 billion euros turnover (2018) / 47.4 billion US dollars consolidated turnover (2019)
Novartis Germany is the German subsidiary of the Swiss Novartis Group. It was formed in 1996 from the merger of the Basel-based chemical and pharmaceutical groups Ciba-Geigy AG and Sandoz AG. The chemicals business was then largely spun off, while the pharmaceuticals business was expanded. Among other things, BASF’s entire generics division was acquired in 2000. Novartis offers products in the areas of generics, ophthalmology, over-the-counter drugs, vaccines and diagnostics.
Place 3: Boehringer Ingelheim AG & Co KG, Ingelheim: 19 billion euros turnover (2019)
Boehringer has been in business in Ingelheim since 1885. The family-owned company is the leading research-based pharmaceutical manufacturer in Germany. Boehringer produces a wide range of medicines: prescription drugs, self-medication drugs and animal health products. In the industrial customer business, biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical production and pharmaceutical chemicals are important business areas. The company employs approximately 51,000 people.
Place 4: Bayer Pharma AG, Berlin: 18.0 billion euros sales (2019)
Bayer Pharma was created in 2006 through the merger of the pharmaceutical division of the chemical company Bayer with Schering. With approximately 40,000 employees and approximately 100 subsidiaries worldwide, the company forms a subgroup within Bayer. The Bayer subsidiary is part of the Pharmaceuticals Division. Its operating business comprises Diagnostic Imaging, General Medicine, Specialty Medicine and Women’s Healthcare.
Place 5: Merck KGaA, Darmstadt: 16.2 billion euros sales (2019)
The chemical and pharmaceutical company Merck emerged from a pharmacy founded in Darmstadt in the 17th century. The descendants of the founder Friedrich Jakob Merck are still the owners of the company. Today, Merck has 57,000 employees, one-fifth of them in Germany and nearly 9,000 at its headquarters in Darmstadt. The business is divided into the Healthcare, Life Science and Performance Materials divisions.
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