This table lists the Top 50 companies ranked in their descending order based on their worldwide pharmaceutical net sales value for the year ending December 31st 2001.

 

	Rank	Company
	1	Glaxo SmithKline
	2	Pfizer
	3	Novartis
	4	Merck & Co
	5	Bristol-Myers Squibb
	6	AstraZeneca
	7	Aventis
	8	Pharmacia
	9	Johnson & Johnson
	10	Eli Lilly
	11	Wyeth (formerly American Home Products)
	12	Roche
	13	Schering-Plough
	14	Bayer
	15	Abbott
	16	Takeda
	17	Boehringer Ingelheim
	18	Sanofi-Synthelabo
	19	Schering AG
	20	Akzo Nobel
	21	Sankyo
	22	Shionogi & Company
	23	Amgen
	24	3M
	25	Yamanouchi
	26	Nestle
	27	Eisai
	28	Baxter International
	29	Merck KGaA
	30	Novo Nordisk
	31	Daiichi Pharmaceutical
	32	Fujisawa
	33	Taisho
	34	Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation
	35	Tyco International
	36	Chugai
	37	Servier
	38	Teva
	39	Solvay
	40	Banyu Pharmaceutical
	41	Tanabe Seiyaku
	42	Elan Corporation
	43	Genentech
	44	Serono
	45	Forest Laboratories
	46	Kyowa Hakko Kogyo
	47	Altana
	48	Kaneka
	49	Meiji Seika
	50	Allergen