Cipla

Cipla plans to pay $512 million for Cipla Medpro

Indian drug-maker Cipla plans to buy the whole of South Africa's Cipla Medpro, and raises its November offer price.
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Cipla's Kurkumbh plant
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Cipla, a leading Indian drugs company, has made a renewed bid to buy one of its customers, South Africa’s Cipla Medpro, in a deal worth R4.5 billion ($512 million). Medpro’s board of directors intends to recommend Cipra’s offer, which will be through a scheme of arrangement rather than a tender.

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