Synopsis
Dilip Shanghvi’s Sun Pharma made a bold move entering the specialty-drugs business which has started to pay it back. Now, the company is scouting acquisitions and augmenting its in-house R&D to enhance its specialty-drugs pipeline. This investment phase may come at the expense of profitability, but for how long?
Dilip Shanghvi has silenced the sceptics. People were unsure about what Shanghvi, founder and managing director of India’s largest pharmaceutical company, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (Sun Pharma), was up to with his company’s foray in 2013 into the specialty-drugs business. Many questioned the company’s ability to crack the business. But despite the brickbats, the company invested at least USD1.6 billion in the specialty-drugs business over
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