Torrent Group

The Torrent Group is a global Indian business group with its head office in Ahmedabad in the north- western Indian state of Gujarat. Core businesses are pharmaceuticals and electrical energy.

The group, founded by UN Mehta ( died 2000) is run by the Torrent Private Ltd. .. The group includes the lines:

• Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd.. (TPL): the main companies of the group. 1959 as Trinity Laboratories Ltd.. established in 1971 renamed, Torrent Pharmaceuticals is one of the largest Indian pharmaceutical companies today. It is specialized in research, development and manufacture of generic drugs. Torrent Pharmaceuticals is in over 50 countries with over 1000 active registered products. Turnover ( 2007): 13.3 billion Indian rupees, with about 4000 employees ( 2006). To this division includes Subsidiaries in Brazil, Germany, the Philippines, Russia, the USA, Japan and Australia. Beginning of July 2005 took over the Nuremberg Torrent Pharmaceuticals generic manufacturers Heumann Pharma of the Pfizer group. Torrent thus gained access to the German generics market, Europe's largest market for off-patent generic drugs.