WEB : www . novartis . co . uk

Headquartered in Basel , Switzerland , Novartis focuses on OTC drugs , contact lenses , animal health and diagnostics , among many other pharmaceutical disciplines . Novartis generated $ 48.518bn in revenue in 2016 and worked from $ 8.268bn of operating income . As of 2015 , the company employed 118,700 people around the world . Its subsidiaries include the Chiron Corporation , Ciba Vision and Sandoz . Novartis was also ranked seventh on the Access to Medicine Index , which is a measure of how effectively pharmaceutical companies make their solutions available to the poorest people around the world . Counting the histories of its parent companies Ciba Geigy and Sandoz Labs , the lifespan of Novartis is more than 250 years . 35