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Ranbaxy suffers 53% fall in US sales

By James Lamont in New Delhi

Published: October 26 2009 20:34 | Last updated: October 26 2009 20:34

The financial pain inflicted by a US import ban on some of the products of Ranbaxy Laboratories, India’s largest drugsmaker, continues to hurt the company a year after it was first imposed.

In the US, sales fell 53 per cent to $44m during the quarter to the end of September in spite of efforts by Daiichi Sankyo, Ranbaxy’s Japanese parent, to resolve the Indian company’s difficulties with the US Food and Drug Administration.

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