Mr. Bhavanishankar Atmaram Oza founded the firm B. A. & Brothers in Bombay and established a chemist shop at Princess Street. At the time, there were only two other chemist shops in the area.
Mr. B. A. Oza, along with others, founded an organization called Shree Nathalia Uneval Sevak Mandal, a community education and service trust.
Mr. B. A. Oza's partner, Mr. Vamanbhai Kapadia, moved to Calcutta to start a branch of B. A. & Brothers.
Mr. B. A. Oza was an active participant in India's Freedom Movement and went to jail several times for the cause. During the Swadeshi Movement, Dr. Jivraj Mehta gave him the formula for gripe water and asked him to start an Indian brand to replace a foreign brand available. Babuline Gripe Water was thus born.
B. A. & Brothers started distribution of Geigy & Anglo French Drugs at Bombay and Ciba & Anglo French Drugs at Calcutta. New branches were also opened at Patna, Cuttack, and Guwahati.
Mr. B. A. Oza passed away in an accident, and his eldest son, Mr. Navnitrai B. Oza, took over the business.
Mr. N. B. Oza expanded the business and transformed it into a wholesale and distribution business. His tour in Europe and the exposure he gained with Ciba in Switzerland, Bayer in Germany and Anglo French Drugs in England, made him modernize the business.
The firms B. A. & Brothers. at Bombay and Calcutta were converted into two private limited companies, B. A. & Brothers (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd. and B. A. & Brothers Eastern Ltd., to give them improved status and permanency.
In addition to manufacturing gripe water, B. A. & Brothers (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd. started manufacturing lake colours and tablet coating colours in collaboration with a German national, and a new firm was started named Indo German Laboratories.
Another firm, B. A. Distributors, was formed to handle distribution of several pharma companies such as Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprise Ltd., Suhrid Geigy, Squibb, etc.
B. A. & Brothers Eastern Ltd. was converted into a public company listed on Calcutta Stock Exchange.
The Delhi branch of B. A. Distributors was opened to distribute products of pharma companies in Northern India. Bab Pharma Pvt. Ltd. was formed to start manufacturing operations of Babuline Gripe Water and other products at the newly constructed production facility at Kandivali Industrial Estate - Charkop, Mumbai.
A branch of Bab Pharma Pvt. Ltd. was opened at Delhi for taking up distribution of companies such as Bayer Diagnostic, amongst others.
Indo German Laboratories entered into a joint venture with Colorcon Ltd. USA, and the JV company was named Colorcon Asia Pvt. Ltd., which is a leading manufacturer and supplier of pharmaceutical excipients to the pharma industry.
Bab Pharma Pvt. Ltd. was renamed as Babuline Pharma Pvt. Ltd. to identify with its brand name "Babuline", which is a Registered Trade Mark and Copyright.
B. A. Distributors was dissolved and the business of the firm was transferred to Babuline Pharma Pvt. Ltd.
The Oza family, who were partners of Indo German Laboratories, divested their holdings in Colorcon Asia Pvt. Ltd., making it a wholly owned subsidiary of Colorcon Ltd. USA
Indo German Laboratories stopped business activities, and the business was consolidated into Babuline Pharma Pvt. Ltd.
B. A. & Brothers (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd. discontinued its distribution business and ceased trading operation.
