Pharmaceuticals Distribution & Wholesale Industry Overview

Companies that distribute pharmaceutical products to drug, grocery, and discount retailers, medical facilities, and other retail pharmaceutical outlets.

Summary

People need their prescriptions, and someone needs to get the drugs from the factory to the pharmacy. Those middlemen are pharmaceutical distributors and wholesalers.

In the US market, the top three firms in this industry, Cardinal Health, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen, dominate the bulk of business. Massive consolidation in the industry led to these behemoths at the top of the market, while smaller players like Kinray have survived by servicing a niche market with specialty pharmaceuticals or struggling to dominate a specific geographic area.

Full Pharmaceuticals Distribution & Wholesale Industry Description

• Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH
• SUZUKEN CO., LTD.
• AAH Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

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Hoover's has developed its own industry classifications to better serve its customers. These classifications are mapped to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and the older U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. The Pharmaceuticals Distribution & Wholesale maps to a number of NAICS codes including:

Full Pharmaceuticals Distribution & Wholesale Industry Codes

• Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
  
• American Pharmacists Association
  
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
  

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