About Lifespan
Built for the brands the world keeps in its medicine cabinet.
Founded in 2002, Lifespan has spent two decades building a contract-manufacturing operation that brands trust with their flagship SKUs. We work in eight dosage formats, register globally, and ship to more than thirty countries.
Who we are
A manufacturer that thinks like a brand.
Lifespan started with a single ribbon blender in 2002. Today the campus runs eight integrated production lines, a fully equipped analytical laboratory, a stability suite and a packing hall — under one roof, with one master batch record system, and one quality team that signs off every release.
Our purpose is simple: take a customer's product brief and turn it into a stable, registered, repeatable SKU that ships on time and matches its label. The harder part is doing that across nutraceuticals, ayurveda, sports nutrition, functional foods and personal care — without ever cutting a corner that the regulator (or the end consumer) would notice.
Two thirds of what leaves the campus carries a customer's name on the label. The rest goes out under our own consumer brand through Lifespan Stores. Either way the same operating principles apply — every gram traceable, every batch documented, every claim defensible.
An integrated campus
Eight production suites, an analytical lab, packing hall and warehousing on a single 60,000 sq.ft. footprint in Hyderabad.
Laboratory-led R&D
A standing R&D team that takes briefs from concept through stability and into commercial production without leaving the building.
Regulator-ready by default
Documentation, classifications and operating discipline align to USFDA, GMP, AYUSH and FSSAI — every batch, every shift.
Brands you already trust
We work behind the scenes for retail brands, sports federations and export buyers across more than thirty countries.
What we believe
Operating principles, not slogans.
Four working principles set the tone for every shift, every batch and every customer relationship.
Make it real
If we wouldn't take it home for our families, it doesn't ship. The shelf-test is honest, not aspirational.
Trace everything
Every gram in, every gram out. From the supplier's invoice to the customer's pallet.
Build the long view
Stable formulas, repeatable batches, and a relationship that outlasts any single SKU.
Respect the regulator
We hold our process to the strictest applicable rule, not the one that's most convenient.
By the numbers
What the plant looks like today
- 20+Years of manufacturingEstablished 2002 · Hyderabad, India
- 8Dosage formatsTablets, capsules, liquids, biscuits, spreads, powders, gels, oils
- 800+SKUs in productionAcross nutrition, ayurveda & personal care
- USFDARegistered facilityReg # 16316762158
- 30+Countries servedThrough B2B & private-label clients
- 24×7QA monitoringInline + batch laboratory testing
The founder
Built by hand. Run by the same hands.
Lifespan started without a family business behind it. Two decades on, the discipline that compounded into the company you see today is still set by the founder, on the floor, every week.
Founder, Chairman & MD
Dr. Narendra Ram Nambula
First-generation entrepreneur who built Lifespan from a single-room office in Hyderabad into one of India's largest contract manufacturers of nutraceutical, herbal, ayurvedic and personal-care products — and a parallel chain of super-speciality hospitals and pharmacy retail.
“Roots decide how tall a tree can grow. Build the roots — the height takes care of itself.”
- Indian Achievers Award 2021
- MSMECCII Entrepreneur of the Year 2020
- History TV Game Changer
- Outlook Business cover feature