Uttar Pradesh’s first and one of India’s oldest pharmaceutical manufacturing unit, Flora Pharma Pvt Ltd, was established in the year 1958 by a technically proficient entrepreneur Late Shri T.D. Gupta (a government of India approved manufacturing chemist) and a team of devoted professionals, who intended to manufacture and supply international standard medicinal products, covering an extensive range of therapeutic areas, at affordable prices. It was incorporated as a private limited company in 1967 by the registrar of companies.
Seeds of the vision were sowed almost a decade before Flora’s inception, when, in 1951, Mr. Gupta started importing penicillin from Germany, which was widely used as an eye ointment during that era. But, with the kind of entrepreneurial thirst he had and the panoramic vision he possessed, he was desiring for much more than what he was doing, which, consequently lead him to set up his own manufacturing unit in Andheri, Mumbai in 1957. But affinity for his native state and immense untapped potential soon made him shift operations back to U.P., his ‘janm & karm bhoomi’ in 1958.
In 1963, when commuting across state borders was a daunting task, with his relentless efforts, he made two German technicians fly from Berlin to New Delhi, so that they could travel to Kanpur and technically assist him to create capsule shells, which were not produced in our state then. After two years of unremitting efforts, he finally succeeded in creating a handmade moulding die, with the aid of which we started fabricating capsule shells manually.
Penetration into the sub-urban and rural markets, inaccessible and unexplored territories, in order to make healthcare available to all, ensure optimum quality, that too at costs which were endurable for people inhabiting these areas, was always Flora’s focal point. Its been six long decades, during which innumerable transitions took place, socially and industrially. Meanwhile, we also accomplished several milestones, from being covered by esteemed pharmaceutical magazines to several awards from prestigious institutions across various categories. Times changed, mindsets changed, people changed, policies changed, products changed, but our priorities didn’t. Our ideology and intent which is to serve and cure our people, our nation, has been the top agenda on our priority chart and it will always be. We hope and pray that the legacy continues.
