pharmaceuticals founded 1993 headquarters hyderabad india key people dr. bandi parthasaradhi reddy products pharmaceuticals number of employees over 15 000 subsidiaries hetero windpower website www.heteroworld.com hetero drugs limited is an indian pharmaceutical company established in the year 1993 . hetero drugs limited founded by dr. b. parthasaradhi reddy phd . a scientist and expert in chemistry . 1 hetero has revenues of approximately 1.9 billion in the 2015 fiscal year . 2 hetero group employs over 15 000 people . citation needed hetero is a strong player in api active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished dosages 3 and its manufacturing plants have u.s. food and drug administration approvals and world health organization approvals . citation needed it has marketing presence in over 100 countries . 4 hetero drugs limited is the parent company in the hetero group of companies and other companies which are part of the group are hetero labs hetero research foundation symed labs limited cirex laboratories genx laboratories and also foreign subsidiaries such as camber pharma inc. in usa and richmond labs in argentina etc. also now the group has its way into wind power business with an aim to establish 1000 megawatts by 2017 . citation needed they were awarded license to make generic oseltamivir tamiflu . swiss firm roche has licensed hetero drugs limited in 2005 5 to make a generic version of its anti flu treatment for india and other developing countries . today oseltamivir tamiflu is also indicated for a h1n1 virus also popularly known as swine flu . in 2009 as the swine flu outbreak was spreading across the globe and various health organizations and government agencies were piling up stocks of oseltamivir as precautionary measure hetero helped many countries including india 6 by supplying the generic oseltamivir under its brand name fluvir . hetero has delivered 10 million doses of generic tamiflu to the indian government in may 2009 7 and shipped about 80 million doses to over 60 countries 8 hetero has received its second order from indian government to supply another 10 million doses of generic tamiflu in august 2009 . 9 hetero makes affordable antiretroviral drugs so that developing nations can fight against hiv . it has supplied antiretroviral drugs to millions of patients across 125 countries . 10 hetero also produces affordable hepatitis c antivirals such as sofovir sofosbuvir and ledifos a fixed dose combination of sofosbuvir and ledipasvir . references edit http www.pharma.focusreports.net index.php state interviewdetail & id 1220 hetero drugs limited . n.d. company information ebscohost accessed october 8 2016 via university of arizona proxy . http hep c news.com hepatitis c treatment in india for less than 1000 http hep c news.com hepatitis c treatment in india for less than 1000 roche grants tamiflu license to hetero drugs the times of india . timesofindia.indiatimes.com . retrieved 2014 01 11 . 1 archived april 30 2009 at the wayback machine . khomba singh et bureau may 5 2009 12.03 am ist 2009 05 05 . hetero bags mega chunk of govt s anti flu drug deal economic times . economictimes.indiatimes.com . retrieved 2014 01 11 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link hyderabad pharma cos cash in on swine flu fever . moneycontrol.com . retrieved 2014 01 11 . khomba singh et bureau aug 22 2009 03.02 am ist 2009 08 22 . hetero bags deal for 10 m tamiflu economic times . economictimes.indiatimes.com . retrieved 2014 01 11 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link welcome to hetero . heterodrugs.com . retrieved 2014 01 11 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hetero drugs & oldid 743255561 categories pharmaceutical companies of indiacompanies based in hyderabad indiapharmaceutical companies established in 1993hidden categories articles with wayback machine linkscs1 maint multiple names authors listall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 20 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view