Turnover: 23.7 billion EUR (2022)

Country: Denmark

  • Novo Nordisk is a Danish pharmaceutical company specializing in diabetes and hormone treatments.
  • Novo Nordisk has several different insulin brands, including NovoLog, Tresiba and Novolin R.
  • Supplies around 50% of the world's insulin

News

Obesity, the golden goose for Novo Nordisk 21/06/2023

  • Launch of Wegovy appetite suppressant in 2021.
  • Novo Nordisk invests €5 billion in new production lines this year.
  • Wegovy launched in Denmark and Norway last month.
  • Potential sales of Wegovy for 2021 estimated at $4.2 billion.
  • Novo Nordisk market capitalization exceeds $300 billion.
  • Novo Nordisk sales growth forecast for 2023 revised to between 24% and 30% for this year.
  • Potential sales of anti-diabetic Ozempic to reach $11.1 billion in 2023.
  • Market for anti-obesity drugs estimated at over $100 billion in annual sales.
  • 813 million people worldwide suffer from obesity, a figure that could rise to 1.5 billion by 2035.

Connected devices: Novo Nordisk wants to buy Auvergne medtech Biocorp 05/06/2023

  • Partnership in 2021 between Novo Nordisk and Biocorp
  • Biocorp based in Issoire, south of Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)
  • Biocorp partnerships with Sanofi, Becton Dickinson (BD), Merck and Novo Nordisk
  • Acquisition of Biocorp valued at over 150 million euros
  • Biocorp, founded in 2004, employs 80 people, and will achieve sales of 11.7 million euros in 2022.

Diabetes: Novo Nordisk invests 130 million euros in its major French plant 21/01/2023

  • The Danish group is Europe's leading market capitalization in the pharmaceuticals sector
  • The group supplies 50% of the world's insulin, with sales of €18.9 billion
  • France is world production center for insulin cartridges and vials
  • 130 million investment in insulin cartridge and vial production to triple Flextouch pen production capacity
  • Novo Nordisk's second-largest site after Denmark, and the largest private employer in the Eure-et-Loir département (1,450 employees)