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  Syngene International Limited -  Company Overview Twitter Handle: @shuchi_nahar Link to FY 2020-21 Annual Report takeaways - https://myweekendspot.blogspot.com/2021/10/syngene-international-ltd-fy2020-21.html 1. Company Overview Incorporated in 1994 as a subsidiary of Biocon, Syngene International (SIL) is a leading contract research organization (CRO), which supports R&D programs of global innovative companies   SIL offers outsourced services to support discovery and development for organizations across industrial sectors like pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, animal health, agro-chemicals, etc. It currently caters to 293 global players including Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), Abbott, Baxter and Amgen, among others. SIL derives 95% of its revenues from exports. Mangalore API plant is constructed and validation is expected to be completed in FY21.  In FY20, Syngene extended its biologics discovery and preclinical research capabilities in CAR-T therapy,

  Hikal – Company Overview Shuchi.P.Nahar Twitter: @shuchi_nahar Link to my previous blog for detail explanation on  What are CDMO and their wide scope: 1 .  https://myweekendspot.blogspot.com /2020/07/ what-is-so-attractive-about-cdmos-in.html   2 .  https://myweekendspot.blogspot.com /2020/07/a-masterclass-on-global-custom.html 1.  Company Overview Established in 1988, Hikal is predominantly a B2B player that provides intermediates and active ingredients to global pharmaceutical, animal health, crop protection and specialty chemical companies. Hikal today is one of the leading global suppliers to the Life Sciences industry. Company is having six sites providing a multitude of services across the value chain. Figure:1 Business Snapshot The pharma business is currently divided almost equally between generic active pharma ingredients (APIs) and contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) businesses. Leading Sustainable Technology driven company serving the Crop Protecti

Art of investing by - Sajal Kapoor SHUCHI.P.NAHAR Twitter Handle: @shuchi_nahar   Background Sajal Kapoor is into the operational risk and regulatory compliance industry and within that industry, he has been working across domains from banking to healthcare to investment forms.  Over the last 20- 25 years and that has been highly rewarding and productive because, That gave him the opportunity to look at the world from a risk and compliance point of view. Experience that he got from the industry, experience working through banks and healthcare firms, consultancies, and investment firms gave him a sort of a different perspective, and somewhere in the background starting around the mid-90s this hunger and drive to know more about this animal called Mr. market and that started emerging.  It has been a very long and rewarding journey it has had its own sort of ups and downs like any investor goes through and but those ups and downs are like the tuition fee that you pay and you get to get yo