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As of 4 November 2026, 698 pharmacies companies are based in Switzerland; 3 are hiring right now and Zürich has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 698
- Hiring now
- 3 · 1 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Community pharmacies · 661
- Top city
- Zürich · 50
- Parent market
- Health care · 27,976
Pharmacies in Switzerland, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Community pharmacies | 661 | 95% |
| Online pharmacy shops | 44 | 6% |
| Other pharmacies | 24 | 3% |
| Grey market online pharmacies | 9 | 1% |
| General practice primary care | 8 | 1% |
| Lab & test instrument distributors | 2 | 0% |
| Heilpraktiker practices | 1 | 0% |
| Home nursing services | 1 | 0% |
| Internal medicine practice | 1 | 0% |
| Medical equipment distributors | 1 | 0% |
| Medical weight loss clinics | 1 | 0% |
| Multispecialty medical clinic | 1 | 0% |
| Naturopathic integrative medicine | 1 | 0% |
| Other primary medical & veterinary practices | 1 | 0% |
| Pharmaceutical wholesale | 1 | 0% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 2 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 614 · 2 |
| 11-50 employees | 59 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 14 · 1 |
| 201-500 employees | 3 · 0 |
| 501-1000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 5 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Zürich | 50 | 7% |
| Basel | 35 | 5% |
| Genève | 30 | 4% |
| Bern | 17 | 2% |
| Lugano | 13 | 2% |
| Locarno | 6 | 1% |
| Münchenstein 1 | 6 | 1% |
| Biel/Bienne | 5 | 1% |
| Lausanne | 5 | 1% |
| Winterthur | 5 | 1% |
| Chiasso 1 | 4 | 1% |
| Gerlikon | 4 | 1% |
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The stack of pharmacies in Switzerland
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698 pharmacies companies are based in Switzerland; 3 are hiring right now and Zürich has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/health_care/switzerland/pharmacies)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Pharmacies in Switzerland: questions
How many pharmacies companies are there in Switzerland?
698 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Health care → Pharmacies → leaf niches such as community pharmacies, online pharmacy shops, other pharmacies. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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