Novo Nordisk generated by far the highest revenues among the Danish pharmaceutical companies in 2023, with over 232 billion Danish kroner. Based on number of employees, Novo Nordisk was also the largest pharmaceutical company and the second largest Danish company in general, with over 54 thousand employees.
Novo Nordisk’s focus
What products does Novo Nordisk make? The company’s key focus is diabetes medicine and treatments, such as diabetes pens and needles. Though, they also develop and manufacture pharmaceuticals for other serious chronic diseases, such as hemophilia, growth disorders and obesity. The company’s investments on research and development fluctuated during recent years, and reached 14 percent of total expenditure in 2023, showing a steady increase since 2019.
The second largest company
H. Lundbeck is the second largest pharmaceutical company in Denmark, in terms of total revenues. Their focus areas are pharmaceuticals to treat psychiatric and neurologic diseases, and the product that generated one of their highest revenues in 2023 was Brintellix/Trintellix, used for treatment of major depressive disorder.
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This statistic includes companies located in Denmark; based on total revenues. Subsidiaries of big foreign companies are excluded. Values provided in USD or EUR were converted into DKK based on exchange rate on December 31, 2023.
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