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Rajendra Agarwal
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- pharmaceuticals
- Industry
- Healthcare
- Residence
- Mumbai
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Biography
Medical doctor, whose family owned a pharmacy in Jaipur, set up Macleods Pharmaceuticals with his two brothers in 1986 to make anti-TB medicines.
Privately held Macleods Pharmaceuticals is among India's top 10 pharma firms.
Macleods produces generics for a range of diseases including asthma, osteoporosis and diabetes.
Agarwal's older brothers, Girdharilal Bawri and Banwarilal Bawri. who are also billionaires, are chairman and joint managing director respectively.
About
Agarwal and his two brothers live together with their families in the same building in Mumbai.
The company was named after John Macleod, a Scottish doctor and author of medical textbooks.