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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by fxj on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:02AM (#19460970)
Top pharmaceutical companies with revenue greater than $10 billion

Rank Company 2016 USD billions

1 Johnson & Johnson NYSE: JNJ 71.89

2 Roche SIX: ROG 50.11

3 Pfizer NYSE: PFE 52.82

4 Novartis NYSE: NVS 48.52

Number 2 and Number 4 are swiss companies.

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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by refurb on Friday March 22, 2019 @09:01AM (#19462094)
That’s just the legacy of acquisitions. A lot of Roche’s revenue (40%) comes from Genentech, an American company they acquired 10 years ago.
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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by coldtea on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:19AM (#19461068)
How is this relevant? 2 and 4 can still have most of their revenues from where 1 and 3 have them (e.g. not by blood-sucking the Swiss society).
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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by dagw on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:25AM (#19461485)
The US accounts for roughly 50% of Roche pharmaceutical revenue, so pretty much.
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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by benj111 on Friday March 22, 2019 @06:28AM (#19461121)
They don't sell just in Switzerland though, they sell worldwide, most of their money is probably made in the US.
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Re:At $75K, housing a prisoner in California now costs more ... by dagw on Friday March 22, 2019 @07:07AM (#19461349)
A lot of J&J's revenue comes from non-pharmaceutical businesses. If you rank by pharmaceutical R&D spending instead Roche comes out ahead of J&J. If you rank by revenue from pharmaceutical sales Pfizer is nr 1 with Novartis and Roche 2 & 3
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