An Indian pharmaceutical company plans to pump $20 million into an expansion of its Eastern Shore facility and add jobs, Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) reported this week as he and other officials updated developments stemming from the state’s recent trade mission to India.

The investment by Jubilant Life Sciences constituted the lion’s share of an additional $23 million in investment gained through the mission and announced Monday.

When the delegation of state officials and business executives returned about a week ago, the initial estimate of combined business deals and investment was about $37 million. Monday’s announcements bring the total to $60 million.

Jubilant Life Sciences has a drug manufacturing facility in Salisbury where it plans to triple its warehouse space, O’Malley said during a news conference in Annapolis, adding that he learned of the company only during the trade trip. He did not provide a specific number for the new jobs.

Jubilant Life Sciences’ Salisbury branch has increased sales to $42 million in 2011 from $3 million in 2005 and grown its work force to 240 from 25, according to state information.

Eight business deals were signed on the six-day trip, in which 100 participants visited Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi, with more expected in the coming months, O’Malley said.

O’Malley called the trip the largest economic mission to India ever led by a state.

State officials estimate the cost of the trip at $140,000, about the same as the state’s trade mission to East Asia this year. The exact cost is still being determined, officials said.

Throughout the trip, representatives of 10 Maryland companies met with executives from 75 Indian firms through federally arranged business-to-business meetings, said Stephen K. Morrison, commercial officer for the U.S. Commercial Service.

“Maryland companies need to be where the best opportunities are,” said Christian Johansson, secretary of the state’s Department of Business and Economic Development. He pointed out that Indian trade with Maryland has increased almost 17 percent since 2008.

Coinciding with the trade mission, Women in Bio, a Bethesda organization that promotes leadership and entrepreneurship among women in life sciences, opened its first chapter in India. This will be the organization’s first international chapter since it started a decade ago.

“The [Women in Bio] Mumbai chapter opening is not only significant for our organization to have a more global presence but more importantly the opportunity to provide our educational and leadership development benefits to women in life sciences in India. India has proven over the past decade to be an important contributor to the life science industry,” Debra Bowes, president of Women in Bio wrote in an email to The Gazette.

O’Malley said he also wants to take similar trade missions to emerging markets in Brazil and South Africa.

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III (D), who was accompanied on the trip by executives from 14 county businesses and five county officials, called the trip well worth its cost.

Three of the eight business deals involved Prince George’s County businesses, including a $5 million agreement between Oxon Hill’s TripleStone Real Estate and Shree Naman Group of Mumbai to partner on Brandywine hospitality and medical officer projects.

“To be honest, at first I didn’t know what to expect. I thought if nothing else, we’d lay the groundwork for future trips,” Baker said. “Then, in each of the areas we went to, we were able to sign” memorandums of understanding.

The trip surpassed all of the Baker administration’s expectations, said Gwen McCall, president and CEO of the Prince George’s County Economic Development Corp.

Although the trip would have cost the county about $5,000, the cost was offset by fees the county charged businesses to conduct preliminary research for their visit. The net cost to the county was zero, said Pradeep Ganguly, senior vice president for the corporation.

Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) also attended the trade mission, although he did not bring along his economic development team.

His intention in traveling alone was to save the taxpayers money, as he has been on similar trade missions to China, Korea and Israel and “knows how to operate and what to focus on,” spokesman Patrick Lacefield wrote in an email to The Gazette.

The cost for Leggett’s travel was about $6,000, Lacefield said.

Two Montgomery businesses signed contracts in India, including a $3.7 million deal for Rockville’s Sheladia Associates to upgrade India’s national highway.

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