Worli and Lower Parel, Mumbai

Cipla was founded in Mumbai in 1935 by Khwaja Abdul Hamied as the Chemical, Industrial and Pharmaceutical Laboratories, and its head office is Cipla House on Peninsula Business Park, Lower Parel; the old factory at Vikhr

Lupin was founded in 1968 by Desh Bandhu Gupta, a chemistry lecturer, and is headquartered at Kalpataru Inspire on Western Express Highway, Santacruz East, with its Lupin Research Park at Rabale in Navi Mumbai.

Alkem, founded in 1973 by Samprada Singh, is headquartered at Alkem House on Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, and is among the five largest Indian pharma companies in the domestic market; its Clavam and Pan brands are a

Piramal Pharma, spun out of Piramal Enterprises in 2022, is one of the largest contract development and manufacturing companies in India, with plants in India, the UK, the US and Canada, and a consumer business with bran

GSK Pharmaceuticals India, listed on the exchanges and headquartered at Dr.

Pfizer Limited, the listed Indian company of the American group, is headquartered at The Capital in Bandra Kurla Complex; Becosules, Corex, Magnex and Prevenar are among its Indian products, made at its Goa plant and by

Novartis India, listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Inspire BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex, with the group’s large global development and business services centre in Hyderabad; Voveran, Calcium Sandoz and oncology

Boehringer Ingelheim India, the arm of the German family-owned group, is headquartered at Godrej BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex with earlier offices in Thane; diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular medicines and animal he

Tata Chemicals, headquartered at Bombay House, Fort, is one of the largest soda ash makers in the world, with plants at Mithapur in Gujarat, in the UK, the US and Kenya; Tata Salt was its consumer product before that bus

Asian Paints, founded in a Mumbai garage in 1942 by four friends, is headquartered at Asian Paints House in Santacruz East and is the largest paint company in India and among the ten largest in the world, with plants acr

Kansai Nerolac, the Goodlass Nerolac of 1920 now owned by Kansai Paint of Japan, is headquartered at Nerolac House on Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel, and is the second-largest paint company in India and the leader in

Atul, the Lalbhai group company founded in 1947, has its plant and head office at Atul in Valsad, Gujarat, and its Mumbai office at Atul House, Bandra Kurla Complex; dyes, intermediates, agrochemicals, aromatics and phar

Navin Fluorine, the Mafatlal group’s fluorochemicals company, is headquartered at Mafatlal House on H.

Gharda Chemicals, founded in 1964 by the chemist Keki Gharda, is a privately held Mumbai company headquartered at Gharda House, Bandra West, making agrochemicals, pigments and high-performance polymers at plants in Lote,

Rallis India, the Tata group’s agrochemicals company founded in 1948, is headquartered at Sharda Terraces in Navi Mumbai with earlier offices at Fort; crop protection, seeds and plant growth nutrients are its products, m

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Foray Pharma Distributors is a Princess Street pharmaceutical distributor supplying retail chemists.

Meher Distributors is a pharmaceutical distributor of the Princess Street market.

Amritlal & Brothers is a pharmaceutical wholesaler on Princess Street, among the older firms of the medicine market.

Rapco Agency in Damodar Building, Princess Street, distributes generic medicines to chemists.

Pharma Access at Royale Heritage, Princess Street, is a pharmaceutical supply and distribution firm.

Inventys Research, headquartered at One International Centre, Prabhadevi, is a contract research and manufacturing company for pharmaceutical and agrochemical customers, with plants at Butibori near Nagpur.

Sadhana Nitro Chem, founded in 1973 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Ramkrishna Chambers, C.

Vidhi Specialty Food Ingredients, founded in 1994 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Tardeo and is one of the largest makers of synthetic food colours in the world, exporting to over seventy countries from

Kolorjet Chemicals is a Mumbai-headquartered maker of dyes, pigments and intermediates for textiles, paper and inks.

Kevin India Co.

Empire Dyes and Pigment Intermediates on Kazi Syed Street, Masjid Bunder, trades colourant intermediates in the old chemicals market.

JSW Paints, launched in 2019 by the JSW group from Jindal Mansion on Peddar Road, makes decorative and industrial coatings at Vasind and Vijayanagar, and bought Akzo Nobel India’s decorative business in 2025.

Zigma Paints is a Mumbai-headquartered maker of industrial paints and powder coatings.

Cipla Health, the consumer healthcare arm of Cipla set up in 2016 and run from Lower Parel, sells Nicotex, Cipladine, Omnigel and Maxirich through chemists and online.