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Kallam Anji Reddy (born 1940) is an Indian entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry, the founder-chairman of

Dr Reddys Labs, which he established in 1984, and chair-man of Dr Reddys Foundation (DRF), the corporate social responsibility arm of the group, established in 1996

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Personal Life
Dr Kallam Anji Reddy was born in 1940 in Tadepalli region of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh.

His father was a peasant and grew turmeric. Done Schooling from the local high school. Graduate in science in the year 1958 from

In 1984, Dr. Anji Reddy, an entrepreneurscientist, had a vision to establish Indias first discovery led global pharmaceutical company. Prior to starting Dr. Reddys Laboratories,

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The pharmaceutical industry develops, produces, and markets drugs licensed for use as medications.

STORY behind SUCCESS...

In 1974, the 34-year-old Reddy quit his job with the government-owned Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL) to set up his own company and he called it Uniloids. Uniloids was Anji Reddy's first brush with entrepreneurship but he was not to rest there. Small ventures prepared Anji for bigger

Kallam Anji Reddy, chairman, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, adds, "One of the reasons I left IDPL was that I said 'I am doing all this hard work for a few rupees but if I become an entrepreneur -- there was import duty on all the imported drugs -- and if my technology is as good as western technology, then I could make money from day one.' This is what compelled me to come out and

Tremendous Growth
On the April 11, 2001, Dr Reddy's Laboratories was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2005, DRL purchased Roche's API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) business at the state of the art manufacturing plant in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with a total investment of $59 million.

DRL was now gearing up to become a global company with a presence in all the key markets of the world with a net worth of Rs 5,800 crore (Rs 58 billion). From Rs 25 lakh in 1984, DRL today is one of the most

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Achievements
Dr Reddys is the founder and the chairman of Dr Reddys Group of Companies. He has been awarded with Padma Shri in 2001 and has successfully proven as a pioneer in the pharmaceutical research in India. Dr Reddy also did great job as a

CONCLUSION Beginning as a small firm with scanty resources, Dr. Reddys Laboratories has grown into the second largest pharmaceutical in India. Dr. Reddy, chairman and founder of the company, has played a pivotal role in

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