This table lists the Top 25 companies ranked in their descending order based on their worldwide pharmaceutical net sales value for the year ending December 31st 2002.

 

	Rank	Company	Pharma Sales
	1	Pfizer	$29.8 billion
	2	Glaxo SmithKline	$21.6 billion
	3	Merck & Co	$21.4 billion
	4	Aventis	$19 billion
	5	AstraZeneca	$17.8 billion
	6	Johnson & Johnson	$17.2 billion
	7	Wyeth (formerly American Home Products)	$14.6 billion
	8	Novartis	$13.6 billion
	9	Bristol-Myers Squibb	$12.3 billion
	10	Eli Lilly	$11 billion
	11	Roche	$10 billion
	12	Schering-Plough	$8.7 billion
	13	Bayer	$7.4 billion
	14	Sanofi-Synthelabo	$7.4 billion
	15	Abbott Laboratories	$7.1 billion
	16	Merck KGaA	$5.9 billion
	17	Schering AG	$5.25 billion
	18	Amgen	$4.9 billion
	19	Yamanouchi	$3.99 billion
	20	Boehringer Ingelheim	$3.86 billion
	21	Takeda	$3.8 billion
	22	Novo Nordisk	$3.67 billion
	23	Sankyo	$3.5 billion
	24	Akzo Nobel	$3.1 billion
	25	Shionogi & Company	$1.58 billion
		Pharma Sales listed in U.S. dollars.