Wockhardt Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. The company was founded by Dr. Habil Khorakiwala in the early part of the 1960s. Wockhardt was started as Worli Chemicals by the founder’s father Fakhruddin T. Khorakiwala in the year 1959. The company was involved in the sale of formulations at that time. The company became a private limited company under the name Wockhardt Private Limited in the year 1973 and later on became a public company. Wockhardt Limited was incorporated on the on 8th of July in the year 1999. The company formed a merger with two companies who were involved in drug manufacturing and nutritionals respectively. The merger took place in the year 1984. The company is currently involved in the manufacture of parenterals. The company has some notable acquisitions to its credit such as the acquisition of UK-based Wallis Laboratories, Merind from the Tata group and Dumex, India to name a few. Wockhardt Limited has split its business into two companies in 2000. While Wockhardt Limited is responsible for pharmaceuticals and bulk drug business, Wockhardt Llife Sciences Limited takes care of agrisciences, IV fluids and hospitals. The company also has its subsidiaries spread across multiple countries like US, UK, Ireland and France.

The company specializes in the therapy areas of pain and inflammation management, anti-infective, corticosteroids, neurology, diabetology, pediatric nutrition, anti-depressant, cardiovascular diseases and medical nutrition. It also has a presence in fluid therapy, vaccines and agrisciences.

Wockhardt Limited has its manufacturing facilities located at Chikalthana and Waluj in Maharashtra, Alathur at Tamil Nadu, Ankleshwar in Gujarat, Daman, Chandigarh, and Mumbai. It also has plants outside the country in UK, Ireland, France and US. The manufacturing plants have received approval from major international regulatory bodies like US FDA, UK MHRA and Brazil-ANVISA. The research facilities of the company have given products like Hepatitis Biovac-B. The company has an international presence in Europe USA, Russia, Africa, China and Asia and exports its products to these countries among others.

Some of the top products of the company are WEPOX, SPASMO-PROXYVON +, METHYCOBAL, WOSULIN, GLARITUS, SPASMO-PROXYVON T+, MERIWOK, ERLISO, INOGLA-M, GLIMADAY, SUGAR CHEK, DECDAN, WOSULIN-R, METHYCOBAL-D, INOGLA, LIVATIRA, MAGENTA, IGWOK, DARBOTIN, TRINEUROSOL-HP, OKERON, MERIDECA, SPASMOFIRST, ALPHADOPA-L, O GLIMADAY, MOPADAY, REINVEXIN, ACCECLOWOC-SP, STROLIFE, ACCECLOWOC-P, TRIMETADAY V, MYCORAL, WOSULIN-N, NEUROBROSIN, SPASMO-PROXYVON FT, DECDAN LITE, TACLORAN, CLARIWOK, NOSOCEF, TECLINE, CONSEGNA, PHYTON, CHYMOWOK, FIXIME, WOFUNGIN, MERIMET, CLAVMENTIN, DILEX CHRONO, TRINEUROSOL-HV and MERIMIX.