This table lists the Top 50 companies ranked in their descending order based on their worldwide pharmaceutical sales value for the year ending December 31st 2000.

 

	Rank	Company
	1	Glaxo SmithKline
	2	Pfizer
	3	Merck & Co
	4	AstraZeneca
	5	Aventis
	6	Bristol-Myers Squibb
	7	Novartis
	8	Pharmacia
	9	Hoffmann-La Roche
	10	Johnson & Johnson
	11	American Home Products
	12	Eli Lilly
	13	Schering-Plough
	14	Takeda
	15	Abbott
	16	Sanofi-Synthelabo
	17	Bayer
	18	Boehringer Ingelheim
	19	Sankyo
	20	Shionogi
	21	Merck KGaA
	22	Amgen
	23	Yamanouchi
	24	Knoll
	25	Schering AG
	26	Eisai
	27	Novo Nordisk
	28	Fujisawa
	29	Taisho
	30	Akzo Nobel
	31	Servier
	32	Dupont Pharmaceuticals
	33	Chugai
	34	Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation
	35	Otsuka
	36	Solvay
	37	Tanabe Seiyaku
	38	Kyowa Hakko
	39	Kaneka
	40	Byk Gulden
	41	Teva
	42	Meiji Seika
	43	Serono
	44	Genentech
	45	Dainippon
	46	UCB
	47	Sumitomo
	48	Forest Laboratories
	49	ASTA Medica
	50	Asahi Chemical