Cold storage and delivery for medicine wholesalers

This business runs temperature-controlled rooms and refrigerated vans for medicines. It stores chilled products such as vaccines and insulin, along with medicines that must be kept cool and dry, and delivers them to chemists, hospitals and distributors.

The Ahmedabad region is one of India's leading pharma and chemicals centres, with large drug makers and a dense supplier network across the surrounding industrial belt. It is also Gujarat's main trading city, and many stockists who supply other towns work from here. Small makers and stockists often prefer to pay for space and deliveries rather than build their own cold rooms, generators and monitoring.

You need a wholesale drug licence from the state drug licensing office, a qualified person in charge, cold rooms with backup cooling and a generator, temperature recorders in every room and van, and written procedures that customers can check. The hard part is that one failure can spoil a whole stock. A power cut, a door left open or a broken compressor at night can ruin goods and your name, so alarms, spares and insurance matter as much as the building. Winning the first large client takes time, because they will inspect you closely.

Reach hospitals, medicine wholesalers and small drug makers in the industrial belt towards Changodar and Bavla. Offer a trial with one product line first.