From a wholesale medicine stall in Kurukshetra to exports reaching 13 countries — how one family’s honesty and hard work became a pharmaceutical legacy.
Every great pharmaceutical company has a first prescription, a first customer, a first act of trust. Ours goes back to 1970, to a small wholesale medicine business in Kurukshetra, Haryana, started by Dr. Ram Niwas Garg.
There was nothing extraordinary about the beginning — just a young man building relationships with customers one honest transaction at a time. But that honesty became the foundation on which an entire family business would one day stand.
A Second Generation Takes the Leap
Inspired by his father’s business, Mr. Atul Garg moved to Panchkula in 2006, carrying forward the same spirit of trust that Dr. Ram Niwas Garg had built. What began as a trading partnership in Parwanoo eventually became something Atul Garg would build entirely on his own — in 2008, he struck out independently.
The turning point came in 2010, when trading gave way to manufacturing: the family’s first pharmaceutical production facility was set up. Growth followed steadily, and by 2018, a second facility had joined the first — a sign that the business was no longer just surviving, but scaling.
The Grandson Who Took It Global
Around the same time, Abhinav Garg — Atul Garg’s son and Dr. Ram Niwas Garg’s grandson — was coming of age. In 2017, he completed his MBA in Family Business Management in Mumbai, arriving with a clear intent: to take what his grandfather and father had built and give it a global footprint.
Today, that intent has become reality. The group’s manufacturing facilities span Paonta Sahib and Baddi, with a head office in Sector-12A, Panchkula. The business now works with 2,500+ distributors and exports medicines to 13 countries — a scale that would have been unimaginable from that first wholesale counter in Kurukshetra.
As Abhinav Garg put it:
“This is a small step towards realizing my grandfather’s dreams. His vision remains my inspiration.”
What Stayed the Same
What’s notable about this journey isn’t just the growth — it’s what didn’t change along the way. The same principle that built customer trust in 1970 is the one guiding the business today: quality and integrity, applied consistently, at every stage of growth.
In Abhinav Garg’s own words, the goal has never been to replace what his grandfather built, but to honor it:
“Preserving my grandfather’s legacy, I’ve advanced the business with modern technology and new thinking — from the modest scale where it began to a name the industry now trusts.”
Where Salus Pharmaceuticals Fits In
This family legacy is the foundation on which Salus Pharmaceuticals’ Baddi facility stands today, under Abhinav Garg’s leadership. Our WHO-GMP and ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturing, our commitment to affordable and effective medicines, and our expanding presence across global markets are a continuation of the same values that started this story more than five decades ago: earn trust, do the work honestly, and let the results speak.
Three generations. One vision. And a business that’s still just getting started.
Story reference: Dainik Jagran, Panchkula edition — “Generation Next” feature on Dr. Ram Niwas Garg’s legacy carried forward by Abhinav Garg.
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