Cadila Healthcare Ltd.

http://www.cadilapharma.com/

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 INR 29.78 Bn in turnover in 2011.It is a significant manufacturer of generic drugs.

Cadila Laboratories was founded in 1952 by Ramanbhai Patel(1952–2001), 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 Brazil's Quimica e Farmaceutica Nikkho do Brasil Ltda (Nikkho) for around 26 million dollars.
In 2010, Cadila Pharmaceuticals received a prestigious Wellcome Trust Award under the new "R&D for Affordable Healthcare in India" initiative.