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Lupin's CEO on the specialty asset hunt in the US

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

Lupin's CEO Vinita Gupta nonchalantly remarks that the company is "impatient" and would like to step up growth in markets like the US via a buy, as she outlines the firm's M&A game plan.

Lupin's CEO Vinita Gupta nonchalantly remarks that the company is "impatient" and would like to step up growth in markets like the US via a buy, as she outlines the firm's M&A game plan.

In an interview with Scrip a day after Lupin snapped up Brazil's Medquímica Indústria Farmacêutica, Ms Gupta and her brother,...

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