Pfizer Holds Number One Spot And Takeda Breaks The Top 10

Takeda's acquisition of Shire fueled the company into a top 10 pharma company in the latest Scrip 100 rankings, as other mega-mergers are set to shape the leaderboard in the future. 

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Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH grew into a top 10 pharmaceutical company for the first time in 2019 in a sign of how drug developers often rely on M&A to fuel game-changing growth. The company ranked as the number nine pharmaceutical player in the world in the Scrip 100 rankings, based on 2019 pharmaceutical revenues of $30.19bn, moving up substantially in the rankings from number 16 in 2018 and number 18 in 2017.

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