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49 The European Pharmaceutical Wholesale Industry With sales of 1.3 million EUR per employee pharmaceutical wholesaling shows the third highest productivity of all wholesaling branches within the European Union and is more than twice as high as productivity in wholesale of chemical products. Although being a comparably small industry pharmaceutical wholesalers’ total sales amounted to almost 88 billion EUR in the EU-15 in 2002, ranging 8 th place. For the reasons mentioned above, wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products leads the ranking. With about 396 billion EUR, the industry exceeded pharmaceutical wholesalers’ sales 4-times. Leaving this branch aside again, non-specialized wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco becomes the most profitable branch in European wholesaling, with sales almost twice as much as pharmaceutical wholesalers’. Figure 41: Top 10 Wholesale Industry’s Ranking by Sales (in billion EUR), EU-15, 2002 Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels Non-specialized wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco Wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment Electrical household appliances Metals and metal ores Fruits and vegetables Grain, seeds and animal feeds Pharmaceuticals Chemical products Harware, plumbing and heating equipment IPF Institute for Pharmaeconomic Research 87.4 86.8 79.7 108.3 104.0 144.2 133.5 175.6 166.1 396.3 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Source: EUROSTAT 2004, GIRP data 2004, IPF research Employing around 65,000 people in 2002, the pharmaceutical wholesale industry only ranged 19 th . The comparably low number of employees places pharmaceutical wholesalers around wholesalers of flowers and plants, textiles and live animals. The top-ranking wholesale industries by the number of working places are wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment employing more than 581,000 people and the non-specialized wholesale of food beverages and tobacco with almost 333,000 people employed.
The European Pharmaceutical Wholesale Industry Figure 42: Employment in Wholesaling (in thousand), EU-15, 2002 Wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment Non-specialized wholesale of food , beverages and Fruits and vegetables Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment Electrical household appliances Clothing and footwear Beverages Metals and metal ores Grain, seeds and animal feeds Chemical products Meat and meat products Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels Dairy produce, eggs and edible oils and fats China and glassware Perfume and cosmetics T extiles Waste and scrap Flowers and plants Pharmaceuticals Live animals Sugar and chocolate Tobacco Coffee, tea, cocoa and spices Hides, skins and leather Unmanufactured tobacco 224 203 170 142 139 132 126 90 87 85 82 75 71 65 44 38 24 21 12 1 333 326 319 282 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 Source: EUROSTAT, GIRP data, IPF research Measured by the number of companies, the pharmaceutical wholesale industry with 426 companies in 2002 was the second smallest industry in the EU-15, ranging only in front of wholesale of unmanufactured tobacco with 141 businesses and just behind wholesaling with tobacco products (1,255 companies). Figure 43: Number of Wholesale Companies, EU-15, 2002 Wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment Clothing and footware Friuts and vegetables Beverages Electrical household appliances Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment Grain, seeds and animal feeds Non-specialized wholesale of food, beverages and T extiles Meat and meat products Chemical products Live animals Waste and scarp China and glassware Metals and metal ores Dairy produc e, eggs and edible oils and fats Perfume and cosmetics Flowers and plants Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels Sugar and chocolate Hides, skins and leather Coffe, tea, cocoa and spices Tobacco Pharmaceuticals Unmanufactured tobacco 33,678 29,844 29,727 24,801 19,783 18,592 18,241 17,834 17,468 16,097 15,314 13,391 11,533 11,230 10,768 10,645 10,008 6,928 3,522 3,302 1,255 426 141 44,703 IPF Institute for Pharmaeconomic Research 50 582 65,624 0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 Source: EUROSTAT, GIRP data, IPF research The low number of pharmaceutical wholesale companies throughout the European Union indicates a very high level of market consolidation. This makes the industry an important employer. Whereas other wholesale branches employed between 3 and 19 people per company, one pharmaceutical wholesaler employed 153 humans in 2002.
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