Pharmaceutical products: top manufacturers in Spain 2021

In 2021, Bayer Hispania ranked as the manufacturer of basic pharmaceutical products with the highest sales value in Spain, reaching over 1.2 billion euros in sales turnover. Bioibérica, ranked second, with its sales valued at 453 million euros. That year, the leading manufacturers of pharmaceutical preparations in Spain were Novartis Farmacéutica and Boehringer Ingelheim España.

Pharmacy market

In 2020, over 70 percent of the total sales in Spanish pharmacies came from prescription drugs. The OTC market accounted for almost 12 percent of the sales, while personal care products had a market share of eight percent. Antidiabetics was the category of prescription drugs with the highest revenue, amounting to 1.8 billion euros in 2020. In the case of over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, sales of eye care products amounted to more than 200 million euros.

Hospital market

The hospital pharmacy market in Spain has grown considerably in the last few years. In 2019, it reached 11.4 billion euros, almost 2.3 billion more than in 2016. The most important therapeutic areas in the hospital sector are oncology and auto-immune biologics, which together comprise 45 percent of the market. The oncological market had a value of approximately 3.6 million euros in 2019, around 21 percent more in comparison with the previous year.

Leading companies in the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products in Spain in 2021, based on sales value (in million euros)

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March 2024

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Spain

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2021

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The source does not provide a publication date. The release date corresponds to the date of access.

This Ranking of Spanish Companies classifies the companies based on sales value, which are obtained from the individual financial statements reported by each company at the registrar Registro Mercantil, with closing dates between July of the studied year and June of the following year (12 month period).

The data base INFORMA D&B, from which the information was extracted, recolects data from multiple public and private sources such as BORME (Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil), BOE (Boletín Oficial del Estado), national and regional press, ad hoc research and other publications.

Figures have been rounded.

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