'Cadila Healthcare' is an Indian pharmaceutical company head quartered at
Ahmedabad in
Gujarat state of western
India. The company is the fifth largest pharmaceutical company in India, with US$290m in turnover in 2004. It is a significant manufacturer of
generic drugs. Cadila Pharma have developed a drug named Roserin which has reduced the cost of curing TB by 33%.
History
Cadila Laboratories was founded in 1952 by
Ramanbhai Patel(1925–2001), formerly a lecturer in the L.M. College of Pharmacy, and his business partner Shri Indravadan Modi. The company evolved over the next four decades into one of India's established pharmaceutical companies.
In 1995 the Patel and Modi families split, with the Modi family's share being moved into a new company called Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Cadila Healthcare became the Patel family's holding company. Cadila Healthcare did its IPO on the
Bombay Stock Exchange in 2000. Its stock code on the Bombay exchange is 532321.
In 2001 the company acquired another Indian pharmaceutical company called German Remedies. On June 25, 2007, the company signed an agreement to acquire 100 per cent stake in Brazils Quimica e Farmaceutica Nikkho do Brasil Ltda (Nikkho) for around 26 million dollars.
Products
From nine pharmaceutical production operations in India as well as a Zydus Cadila develops and manufactures a large range of pharmaceuticals as well as diagnostics, herbal products, skin care products...
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