The pharmaceutical sector has grown to the size of a real giant in industrial and business spheres. The fact that this industry directly affects health and life, it is heavily legalized and dominated by a handful of multinational corporations and large sized local players.
The combination of FMCG character of drugs and pharmaceutical and their indispensability ensures huge revenues and profits for its major operators. The combined annual profits for top 10 drugs companies of world had soared above $45 billion in year 2004 with revenues easily crossing $ 600 billion mark.
In contrast to many other sectors where inflation and recession in economy have great modifying effect on buying tendency of people, this sector runs independent of these constraints due to its life saving character.
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