Pfizer earnings jump by 46%
The company, which boasts 10 prescription drugs, that each generated more than $1 billion in revenue last year, saw net income rise to $2.86 billion, or 46 cents a share, from $1.96 billion, or 30 cents, in the year-earlier period.
Revenue increased 14% to $9.3 billion. Pfizer employs 1,200 people in Ireland. Top-selling drug lipitor is made at the Loughbeg Tablet plant in Cork and is expected to be the biggest-selling prescription drug on the market by the end of the year. The main ingredients for impotence treatment drug
