Torrent Pharmaceuticals

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited
Type Public (BSE: TORRENTPH)
Industry Pharmaceuticals
Founded 1959
Headquarters Ahmedabad, India
Key people Sudhir Mehta, Chairman
Revenue INR 16.16 billion (Mar 2009)
Net income INR 1.84 billion (Mar-2009)
Employees 4000 (2006)
Website www.torrentpharma.com

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is the flagship company of the Torrent Group. Based in Ahmedabad, it was promoted by U. N. Mehta initially as Trinity Laboratories Ltd. and was later renamed to its current name Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Torrent Pharmaceuticals operates in more than 50 countries with over 1000 product registrations globally.
Moreover, it has 7 fully owned subsidiares:

  1. Heumann Pharma GmbH & Co Generica KG, Germany
  2. Torrent Pharma GmbH, Germany
  3. Torrent do Brasil Ltda., Brazil
  4. ZAO Torrent Pharma, Russia
  5. Torrent Pharma Inc., United States
  6. Torrent Pharma Philippines Inc., Philippines
  7. Torrent Pharma Canada Inc., Canada

Torrent Pharmaceuticals acquired Heumann GmbH, a Pfizer group company in 2005.

Operations

The company's key areas are Formulations, API, Drug Discovery, Marketing and Sales of Drugs. Its operations locations are:

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