by Ekrem Duman | Jul 21, 2026 | India Company Stories, Pharma & Healthcare
⚡ TL;DRIndia’s pharma industry offers a transferable playbook: win on cost and quality together, master regulation as a core capability, use scale for both profit and social impact, and climb the value chain deliberately. This piece distils what founders,...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 21, 2026 | India Company Stories, Pharma & Healthcare
⚡ TL;DRIndia’s pharma industry mastered generics but faces a strategic question: can it move from copying off-patent drugs to discovering new ones? Innovation is far riskier and costlier than generics, and the transition tests whether Indian firms can...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 21, 2026 | India Company Stories, Pharma & Healthcare
⚡ TL;DRThe Serum Institute of India is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, supplying billions of doses for global immunisation at very low cost, and played a major role in producing COVID-19 vaccines. Its story shows how scale, low-cost...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 21, 2026 | India Company Stories, Pharma & Healthcare
⚡ TL;DRSun Pharmaceutical grew from a small specialty-drug maker into India’s largest pharmaceutical company through disciplined focus, shrewd acquisitions and a move into complex, higher-margin specialty medicines. Its rise shows how a generics-era firm...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 21, 2026 | India Company Stories, Pharma & Healthcare
⚡ TL;DRIndia is called “the pharmacy of the world” because it supplies a huge share of the globe’s affordable generic medicines and vaccines, built on low-cost manufacturing, deep chemistry skills and mastery of complex regulatory approvals....
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 21, 2026 | Consumer Internet & E-Commerce, India Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRWinning India’s consumers requires understanding a market defined by price sensitivity, diversity, trust barriers and rapid digital adoption. The companies that succeed localise deeply, build trust patiently, design for value, and reach beyond the...
