Company Profile

Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (Ranbaxy), India's largest pharmaceutical company, is an integrated, research based, international pharmaceutical company, producing a wide range of quality, affordable generic medicines, trusted by healthcare professionals and patients across geographies. Ranbaxy today has a presence in 23 of the top 25 pharmaceutical markets of the world. The Company has a global footprint in 46 countries, world-class manufacturing facilities in 7 countries and serves customers in over 125 countries.

In June 2008, Ranbaxy entered into an alliance with one of the largest Japanese innovator companies, Daiichi Sankyo Company Ltd., to create an innovator and generic pharmaceutical powerhouse. The combined entity now ranks among the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, globally. The transformational deal will place Ranbaxy in a higher growth trajectory and it will emerge stronger in terms of its global reach and in its capabilities in drug development and manufacturing.

Vision & Aspirations

Ranbaxy is driven by its vision to achieve significant business in proprietary prescription products by 2012 with a strong presence in developed markets. The Company aspires to be amongst the Top 5 global generic players and aims at achieving global sales of US $5 Bn by 2012.

Financials

Ranbaxy was incorporated in 1961 and went public in 1973. For the year 2008, the Company recorded Global Sales of US $ 1,682 Mn, reflecting a growth of 4%. The Company has a balanced mix of revenues from emerging and developed markets that contribute 54% and 39% respectively. In 2008, North America, the Company's largest market contributed sales of US $ 449 Mn, followed by Europe garnering US $ 330 Mn. Business in Asia has been going strong with India clocking sales of around US $ 300 Mn with market leadership in several business segments, backed by strong brand-building skills.

Strategy

Ranbaxy is focused on increasing the momentum in the generics business in its key markets through organic and inorganic growth routes. Growth is well spread across geographies with focus on emerging markets. The Company continues to evaluate acquisition opportunities in India, emerging and developed markets to strengthen its business and competitiveness. Ranbaxy has forayed into high growth potential segments like Biologics, Oncology and Injectables. These new growth areas will add significant depth to the existing product pipeline.

R&D

Ranbaxy views its R&D capabilities as a vital component of its business strategy that will provide a sustainable, long-term competitive advantage. The Company has a pool of over 1,200 scientists engaged in path-breaking research.

Ranbaxy is among the few Indian pharmaceutical companies in India to have started its research program in the late 70's, in support of its global ambitions. A first-of-its-kind world class R&D centre was commissioned in 1994. Today, the Company's four multi-disciplinary R&D centers at Gurgaon, in India, house dedicated facilities for generics research and innovative research. The robust R&D environment for both drug discovery and development reflects the Company's commitment to be a leader in the generics space offering value added formulations based on its Novel Drug Delivery System (NDDS) and New Chemical Entity (NCE) research capabilities.

The new drug research areas at Ranbaxy include anti-infectives, inflammatory / respiratory, metabolic diseases, oncology, urology and anti-malaria therapies. Presently, the Company has 8-10 programs including one Anti-malaria molecule for which Phase-III clinical trials have commenced in India, Bangladesh and Thailand. The Company has signed collaborative research programs with GSK and Merck.

NDDS focus is mainly on the development of NDA/ANDAs of oral controlled- release products for the regulated markets. Ranbaxy’s first significant international success using the NDDS technology platform came in September 1999, when the Company out-licensed its first once-a-day formulation to a multinational company.

People

The Company’s business philosophy based on delivering value to its stakeholders constantly inspires its people to innovate, achieve excellence and set new global benchmarks. Driven by the passion of its over 12,000 strong multicultural workforce comprising 50 nationalities, Ranbaxy continues to aggressively pursue its mission to become a Research-based International Pharmaceutical Company.

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