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Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited

Pharmaceutical company — Andheri and MIDC, Mumbai. Since 1983.

Sun Pharma is the largest pharmaceutical company in India and the fourth-largest generic company in the world, founded in 1983 by Dilip Shanghvi with five psychiatry products in Kolkata and headquartered since at Sun House, Western Express Highway, Goregaon East. It bought Ranbaxy in 2015 and Taro of Israel, and sells in over a hundred countries.

Its speciality business in dermatology and ophthalmology in the United States, and its generics in India, are the two halves of the company; research is at Tandalja in Vadodara and manufacturing across India, Israel and the US.

NameSun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited
Where in MumbaiAndheri and MIDC, Mumbai
What they doPharmaceutical company
Since1983

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