1. Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Headquartered in Cheshire, Connecticut (USA), Alexion is global biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and delivery of life-transforming therapies for patients with severe and life-threatening rare disorders.

2. Shire

Shire Pharmaceuticals Ireland is involved in the research, development and marketing of prescription medicines. Its particular focus is medicines for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, human genetic therapies and gastrointestinal diseases. It employs 119 people i...

3. Perrigo

Headquartered in Ireland, Perrigo Company plc is a global healthcare supplier that develops, manufactures and distributes over-the-counter (OTC) and generic prescription (Rx) pharmaceuticals, infant formulas, nutritional products, animal health, dietary supplements, ac...

4. Ipsen Manufacturing

Ipsen is a biotechnological group aiming to become a leader in specialty healthcare solutions for debilitating diseases. Its strategy is supported by three franchises, neurology, endocrinology and urology-oncology. Ipsen has a growing portfolio in prostate cancer, bla...

5. Mylan

Mylan ranks among the leading generic and specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world. In Ireland, Mylan is currently the largest employer in generic pharmaceuticals with facilities located in Dublin and Galway.

6. Icon Plc

ICON is a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. It specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development - from compound selection ...

7. Merck Millipore

Merck Millipore is the Life Science division of Merck Group of Germany, which is a global pharmaceutical and chemical company. Merck Millipore Ltd offers products, services that relate to research, development and production of biotech and pharmaceutical drug therapies,...

8. Cook Ireland

Cook Ireland is a subsidary of global medical devices group Cook. The company develops and manufactures products for Cook Group companies. It functions as a shared service centre for all Cook strategic business unit sales activities in Europe. It employs over 700 people...

9. Lifes2Good

Lifes2good brings to market clinically proven health & beauty products that improve people’s lives, such as Viviscal.

10. Henkel

Henkel operates worldwide with brands and technologies in three business areas: Laundry & Home Care, Cosmetics/Toiletries and Adhesive Technologies. Founded in 1876, Henkel holds globally leading market positions both in the consumer and industrial businesses with we...

11. Malin

Malin Corporation plc is an Irish company whose head office is in Dublin, Ireland with subsidiary offices in New Haven, Connecticut, USA and Cambridge, United Kingdom. Malin’s purpose is to create shareholder value through the selective long-term application of capit...

12. Recordati Ireland

Recordati, established in 1926, is a European pharmaceutical group listed on the Italian stock exchange. Recordati Ireland is based in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork and employs about 50 people. The main activity of the company is the licensing, development, manufacture, sale and...

13. Sanofi Genzyme

Sanofi Genzyme is a pharmaceutical company and its products and services are focused on areas such as rare inherited disorders, kidney disease, cancer, transplant and immune disease. Established in 2001, Genzyme Waterford is situated on a 37-acre site in Waterford. T...

14. Uniphar

In 1994 United Pharmacists Co-Op merged with Allied Pharmaceutical Distributors (APD) to form the UniPhar Group. APD and UPC were both founded by pharmacists in 1972 and 1967 respectively. Today, the roots of the UniPhar Group remain in community pharmacy and owners...

15. UDG Healthcare

UDG Healthcare plc is a provider of outsourced commercialisation solutions to healthcare companies operating across four areas of expertise. The company announced plans to buy the healthcare communications business of KnowledgePoint360 for €105 million in February 20...

16. 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.

17. Boots

Boots Ireland is a member of Alliance Boots, an international pharmacy-led health and beauty group. Boots opened its first outlet in the Republic of Ireland in 1996 and now has over 80 stores.

18. 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...

19. Barclay Chemicals

35-year-old Barclay Chemicals is an independent Irish-owned company, which manufactures and supplies post-patent agrochemicals for protecting crops from a facility in West Dublin. Their fully integrated site in Damastown delivers registration, manufacturing and distri...

20. Liberty Medical Services

Liberty Medical Services, based in Ballina, Co Mayo, replenishes medical products to Hollister distribution centres and business units worldwide. It also sells directly to distributors and other customers in the Middle East and Africa.