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At LI biz lunch, Amneal chief predicts hitting $1B in revenue
Photo credit: Newsday, 2009 / Mahala Gaylord
Ten years ago, Chintu Patel quit his job as a pharmacist, scraped together $75,000 and founded Amneal Pharmaceuticals, now among America’s largest makers of generic drugs with 700 employees on Long Island. Now he is hoping to top $1 billion in revenue by 2015. “We have so much to do. We are not done,” Patel told Long Island business leaders Wednesday at the Hauppauge Industrial Authority’s annual...