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Contract manufacturing services firm Syngene International on Wednesday reported a 4 per cent decline in profit after tax to Rs 74 crore for the first quarter ended June 2022. The company had posted a PAT of Rs 77 crore in the April-June quarter of last fiscal. Its revenue from operations rose to Rs 644 crore in the first quarter against Rs 595 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in a statement. The first quarter results were against a strong quarter last year due to sales of Remdesivir, it added. Excluding the impact of Remdesivir, the underlying revenue from operations growth in the quarter stood at around 30 per cent year-on-year, it stated. "The first quarter results were in line with our expectations and reflect strong underlying performance across all our business divisions. The contribution from the development and manufacturing services divisions drove the growth momentum against a low base in the previous year," Syngene International MD and CEO Jonathan Hunt ..
Syngene, the contract research and manufacturing unit of Biocon is looking to expand its business to work on products for customers that target Indian consumers. It has signed up HerbalLife Nutrition, a nutrition company to develop nutrition based products that can be sold by the company in the country. This is the first nutrition research and development Lab in India by HerbalLife. The new facility is located in Syngene campus and has a separate Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) formulation lab to support product testing, sampling and end-product development. The lab currently has 10 members combined from Syngene and HerbalLife. "Apart from bringing the global portfolio of products to India, we also endeavour to develop flavors that appeal to the Indian palate. Setting up the Nutrition R&D Lab in collaboration with Syngene will give us the ability to turnaround new products faster, and introduce them to the market quicker. This is the fifth dedicated centre and second for ...