After opening centres in Delhi and Mumbai, the Pharmaceutical Exports Promotion Council (Pharmexcil) headquartered in Hyderabad, will open its third branch office at Ahmedabad on August 13, 2009. The office will support the increasing export activities of the stakeholders in Gujarat, especially the small and medium enterprises, offering immediate guidance for exports and assisting...
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Dishman's Janmejay Vyas gets outstanding entrepreneur award
Ahmedabad Management Association presented AMA-Atlas Dye-chem Outstanding Entrepreneur of the year Award-2008 to Janmejay R. Vyas, Managing Director, Dishman Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Ltd today evening in recognition of his outstanding contributions in building, nurturing and expanding an enterprise through quality of work, customer loyalty and constantly evolving change and adapting to market situation. The...
US based Stemcyte to start cord blood bank in Ahmedabad
Introducing the ‘plasma depletion’ technology of collecting high volume of stem cells of umbilical cord in India, the US-based leader in public and private banking of cord-blood stem cells, Stemcyte Inc in collaboration with local pharma-giant Cadila Pharmaceuticals and Apollo Hospitals will set up a public cord-blood bank near Ahmedabad with an investment of...
Torrent Power wants CISF security cover
Central Industrial Security Force(CISF) has 79 pending security requests from private establishments across the nation. Of these two firms are Gujarat based: Reliance Jamnagar Refinery and Torrent Power (Ahmedabad). It should be noted that Infosys is the first private firm to get CISF security following an amendment to the law to enable the paramilitary...
Why Cadila Healthcare lost 'Mext' trademark case?
Gujarat-based Cadila Healthcare Ltd has lost the case against Goa-based firm Wallace Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, in a civil suit at Ahmedabad rural court. The suit was filed in the matter of cadila’s brand name ‘MEXATE’, used for curing cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. Goa-based Wallace had registered the trademark ‘MEXT’, an abbreviation of the...
Two Special Economic Zone (SEZ) projects are awaiting environment clearance in Gujarat
There are two Gujarat based Special Economic Zone (SEZ) projects awaiting environment clearance. Minister of State for the Ministry of Environment and Forests (Independent charge) Shri Jairam Ramesh replied in a written question by Shri Natuji Halaji Thakor and Shri Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala in Rajya Sabha today. The minister said “for the first project...
Cadila-Novavax to develop Rs100 cr vaccine plant in Ahmedabad
Gujarat-based pharmaceuticals major Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd (CPL) has claimed that it would be the first India pharma company to produce the Swine Flu vaccine. CPL in joint venture with US-based vaccine company Novavax will invest Rs 100 crore in setting up new units at the existing manufacturing facilities of Cadila Pharma at Ahmedabad-Dholka highway...