According to the analists, the gold age of the pharmaceutical industry was between 1955 and 1985, but nowdays there are similar opportunities in this ramification. The mentioned date of the gold age can be described the following attributes:
- permanent growing market
- increasingly discovers of the new molecules
- full patent protection over the staple markets
- minimum 5 years monopol situation due to the breakthrough drugs
- slowly emerging of the generic markets
- almost full pricing independence in utmost markets
- good defined consumer market
The World Biggest Pharmaceutical factories in 1999
Firm Name and Annual Turnover (billion $)
1. Pfizer ( _23,15_ )
2. GlaxoSmithKline (_ 22,04_ )
3. AstraZeneca ( _14,29_ )
5. Bristol-Myers Squibb ( _13,28_ )
6. Novartis ( _12,41_ )
7. Johnson & Johnson ( _12,36_ )
8. Aventis ( _11,31_)
9. Pharmacia ( _10,25_ )
10. American Home Products ( _9,57_ )
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