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Siblings grow drugs firm into Sh1.5bn turnover enterprise
Mr Manesh Patel, chairman Lab and Allied. Together with his sister, Ani Patel, they intend to take the business into 20 more markets in the next five years. PHOTO | FILE
When the late Vithal Patel, the founder of medical firm Lab and Allied, realised that he was in his twilight years, he thought it wise to relinquish control of a business he started in his teen years to a more energetic person.
His successors of choice were his two children, among them Manesh Patel. Manesh’s task was to oversee a business his father started after quitting a marketing job at Evans Medical — a German pharmaceutical firm — and grow it to new heights.
