Parvinder Singh of Ranbaxy passes away
New Delhi: The man who set up India's first multinational pharmaceutical company, Parvinder Singh, chairman and managing director of Ranbaxy Laboratories, passed away at the Apollo Hospital on 3 July. Singh was suffering from cancer of the oesophagus and was admitted at the hospital last week.

Credited with establishing a company of truly international standards, Parvinder Singh began almost from scratch and built up Ranbaxy to a research-based international pharma company and  India's largest, with 22 overseas subsidiaries and a turnover of Rs 1,400 crore. A company that followed corporate governance and undertook original research, Ranbaxy has to its credit develeopment of two original molecules and sophisticated  drug delivery systems.

Parvinder Singh had a doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Michigan.

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