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Pankaj Patel

Pharmacy, and his business partner Shri Indravadan Modi. The company evolved over the next four decades into one of India’s established pharmaceutical companies. In 1995 the Patel and Modi families split, with the Modi family’s share being moved into a new company called Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Cadila Healthcare became the Patel family’s holding company. […]

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Karsan bhai Khodidas Patel

Karsan bhai Khodidas Patel (b. 1945, Ruppur, Mehsana, Gujarat) is an Indian industrialist, founder of the Rs. 2500 crore (USD 500 mn) Nirma group with major interests in detergents, soaps and cosmetics. In 2005 Forbes listed his net worth as USD $640 million. He has interests in education, and founded a leading pharmacy college (Nirma […]

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