Amar Lulla is the Joint Managing Director of Cipla. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in India.

Dr K A Hamied set up The Chemical, Industrial and Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. (Cipla) in a rented bungalow, at Bombay Central. In 1952, the company set up first research division for attaining self-sufficiency in technological development. US FDA approved Cipla`s bulk drug manufacturing facilities in 1985. Cipla then became the first company, outside the USA and Europe to launch CFC-free inhalers – ten years before the deadline to phase out use of CFC in medicinal products in 2000.