Sanofi India Ltd - SANOFI INDIA Share Price

Summary

Sanofi India Limited, (Previously known as Aventis Pharma Limited), is amongst the leading multinational companies (MNCs) in the Indian Pharmaceutical Market. The Company offers a wide array of medicines for therapy areas such as Diabetes (both insulins, andorals), Cardiology, Thrombosis, Epilepsy, Allergies, Infections, Vitamins, Central Nervous System and Antihistamines. The products manufactured by the Company are distributed in India and exported to many developed as well as developing countries, including Germany, Australia, UK, Russia and Italy. Sanofi Indias products viz. Lantus, Combiflam, Amaryl and Allegra feature in the top 100 pharmaceutical brands in India. The Company has its own manufacturing facility at Goa and Ankleshwar, Gujarat. It sells products through independent distributors primarily in India.Sanofi, one of the worlds leading pharmaceutical companies, and its 100% subsidiary, Hoechst GmbH, are the major shareholders of Sanofi India Limited and together hold 60.4% of its paid-up share capital. The Company was incorporated in May 1956 under the name Hoechst Fedco Pharma Private Limited. Over the years, the name was changed to Hoechst Pharmaceuticals Private Limited, Hoechst India Limited, Hoechst Marion Roussel Limited, Aventis Pharma Limited and Sanofi India Limited.During the year 1997-98, the Joint Venture Company, Chiron Behring Vaccines Pvt Ltd started to manufacture anti-rabbies vaccine Rabipur. Roussel India Ltd was amalgamated with the Company... Read More