Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd has been selected for the Lalit Doshi Memorial Award as the best SICOM assisted unit for the year 2007-08. The award is jointly given by Lalit Doshi Memorial Foundation and SICOM Limited, every year. This award was instituted thirteen years ago, in the memory of Late Shri Lalit Doshi who was then Secretary (Industries), Government of Maharashtra and the Managing Director of SICOM Limited, from June 1990 to August 1992. The award is presented with an objective of encouraging first generation entrepreneurs. Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd (EPL) incorporated in April, 1983, is engaged in the manufacture of Pharmaceutical Formulations, Bulk Drugs, Consumer Products and Medial devices like calcium supplementations, wound, neutraceuticals, dermatology, etc. Elder Pharmaceuticals has set up six mfg. units in India of which two are in Maharashtra (Patalganga & Nerul, Navi Mumbai). EPL has strong brands – Shell-Cal, Eldervit, Chymoral, etc. The company reported a turn over of about Rs. 551 Crs. with a net profit of about Rs. 69 Crs. The award will be presented to Elder Pharmaceuticals Ltd, in a special function on 29th September, 2008 at 6.00 p.m. at Y.B. Chavan Centre Auditorium, General Jagannathrao Bhosle Marg, Near Sachivalaya Gymkhana, Mumbai – 400 021. On this occasion Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) & Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) will deliver the fourteenth Lalit Doshi Memorial Lecture on “Implications of Climate Change for Indian Society”.

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