76. Takeda

Takeda Ireland Limited (TIL) has two bases in Ireland. TIL Bray, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has played a key role in Takeda's worldwide operations since being established in 1997. To date employing over 400 people and serving as the ma...

75. Gilead Sciences

Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercialises therapeutics products. Gilead's Irish operations are responsible for manufacturing, quality control, packaging, and the release and distribution of the company's products in the EU and other...

74. Novartis Ringaskiddy

The company is the Irish subsidiary of the global pharmaceutical company. Novaritis operates in 140 countries, with its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Novartis was created in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz. The company is listed on the SIX Swiss s...

73. Helsinn

Helsinn is a subsidiary of global pharmaceutical company Helsinn. Helsinn is a privately owned, self-financing pharmaceutical group with headquarters in Lugano, Switzerland and premises in Ireland and USA. The Helsinn Group has been built on the basis of a unique bus...

72. Sam McCauley Chemists

Sam McCauley Chemists Limited is a holding company, holding shares in each of the group's trading companies as well as other investments. McCauley Chemists as founded in 1953 in Enniscorthy, Wexford. Sam McCauley and his wife Leslie, both Pharmacists, joined the fa...

71. McCabes Pharmacy

Behey Ltd is an investment holding company for Wembar Company Ltd, which operates a chain of pharmacies under the name McCabe’s Pharmacy. The company is an independent, family-owned Irish company founded in 1981 by Roy and Margaret McCabe. Today, the pharmacy is run by...

70. Alcon

Alcon manufactures intraocular lenses, which replace the natural lens removed during cataract surgery. It is the second largest division of Swiss group Novartis. Alcon operates in more than 75 countries, serving 180 markets and employing more than 24,000 people. The C...

69. Astellas

Astellas is a pharmaceutical company which employs 16,000 people globally. Its European headquarters coordinates Astellas Europe, which employs 4,200 people in Europe and South Africa across Sales and Marketing, Research & Development (R&D), and Manufacturing is focused...

68. Bausch & Lomb Ireland

Bausch & Lomb is a healthcare company that specialises in eye products including contact lenses and lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses and other eye surgery products. The company's proprietary and generic medicines treat a wide range of eye conditio...

67. Baxter

Baxter has been present in Ireland for more than 40 years. A global medical products and services company with expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, it develops, manufactures and markets products that save and sustain the lives of people w...

66. Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol Myers Squibb is a leading global biopharma company focused on discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with serious diseases in areas including oncology, haematology, immunology, cardiovascular and neuroscience. Our employees work...

65. Eli Lilly

Eli Lilly and Co (Ireland) Ltd provides sales and marketing activities for the Eli Lilly and Company Group. Eli Lilly and Company develops pharmaceutical products that treat depression, schizophrenia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, osteoporosis, ...

64. GSK

Headquartered in the UK, GSK is a global organisation with offices in over 100 countries and major research centres in the UK, USA, Spain, Belgium and China. The company produces medicines that treat major disease areas such as asthma, anti-virals, infections, mental...

63. McKesson

Since 2016 United Drug, the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the Republic of Ireland, is part of McKesson Europe. As the largest pharmacy group in the country, LloydsPharmacy Ireland currently has 94 branches and employs nearly 1,000 people.

62. MSD

MSD Ireland is one of the country’s leading healthcare companies, having first established here over 50 years ago. MSD, known as Merck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA in the US and Canada, has operations in more than 140 countries and employs over 2,800 people in Irelan...

61. Rottapharm

Rottapharm's Irish operation in Damastown Industrial Park in Mulhuddart manufactures and sells drugs used in the treatment of osteo-arthritis, on behalf of its Italian parent Rottapharm/Madaus. It trades as Meda Manufacturing Dublin.

60. Jabez

Jabez is a holding and trading company operating 15 pharmacies.

59. Goodman Medical

Goodman Medical Ireland Ltd (GMIL) was established in 2004 and is located in Mervue Business Park in Galway for the purpose of manufacturing and developing medical devices. The company is known for the development, manufacture, assembly, testing, packing and labelling...

58. Allergan Inc

In May 2020, Allergan was acquired by pharma giant Abbvie in a deal worth €58 billion. Allergan had previously been acquired by Actavis in 2015, but that business continued to be known as Allergan and was headquartered in Dublin. Allergan Pharmaceuticals Ireland, ...

57. Sanofi

Sanofi sells and markets pharmaceutical products to wholesalers, retailers and the hospital sector. It is based in the Citywest Business Campus, and is part of the Sanofi group which is listed in Paris and in New York.