Revenue of the top ten pharmaceutical companies in France 2019

As of mid-2019, the leading pharmaceutical company according to sales revenue was Sanofi Pasteur – a pharmaceutical company of the Sanofi group entirely devoted to vaccines –, with a turnover of more than two billion euros. In close second place came the Laboratoires Servier with 2.05 billion euros revenue at the same time of 2019.  

Sanofi group

  The Sanofi group is active on markets for pharmaceutical products and vaccines and is one of the main French players of the pharmaceutical industry worldwide. Its global revenue amounted in 2018 to over 34 billion euros. Pharmaceuticals made up the biggest part of this turnover, accounting in 2017 for almost 24.7 million euros worldwide.  

Medication market in France

  In France, the industry of basic pharmaceutical products manufacturing consisted of 19 enterprises as of 2017, a significant drop since 2013 where there were 69 businesses active on this market. The wholesale of pharmaceuticals goods was however estimated to steadily grow up to over 75 billion U.S. dollars by 2022. In addition to this, exports of medicines constituted almost half of the medicine sales in France, while refundable medications accounted for a third of the market.