Novartis

It was founded in 1996 when the German medical business Sandoz and the Swiss drug company Ciba-Geigy merged, and it today employs over 103,000 people worldwide. Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland, is the largest medical equipment company in Europe, with a total sales of $49.49 billion.

Novartis is reinventing medicine to help people live longer and healthier lives. It uses breakthrough science and digital technology to develop revolutionary cures in areas of significant medical need as a leading global pharmaceuticals firm. They constantly rank among the world's top corporations spending in research and development in their effort to discover new medications. Novartis' drugs reach roughly 1 billion people throughout the world, and the company is constantly looking for new methods to improve access to its newest therapies. Novartis employs over 125 000 employees from over 140 different nationalities all around the world.

Novartis is best recognized for being one of the world's largest pharmaceutical businesses, but it also manufactures and distributes a variety of medical technology. The Concept1 inhaler was the first device of any sort to be certified under the European Union's new MDR regulations in 2019. (Medical Device Regulation).