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Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technologies corporation headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the company is ranked No. 42 on the 2024 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations. In 2024, the company was ranked 45th in the Forbes Global 2000. Johnson & Johnson has a global workforce of approximately 138,000 employees who are led by the company's current chairman and chief executive officer, Joaquin Duato. Johnson & Johnson is one of the world's most valuable companies and is one of only two U.S.-based companies that has a prime credit rating of AAA.
Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886 by three brothers, Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson, and Edward Mead Johnson, selling ready-to-use sterile surgical dressings. Over time, it developed some of the most recognizable healthcare products, including the first commercial first aid kit, maternity kits, baby powder, Band-Aids, Tylenol, and disposable contact lenses, establishing itself as a leading provider of medical products and consumer healthcare solutions.
Johnson & Johnson expanded globally through acquisitions of major pharmaceutical and medical device companies such as Janssen, Ethicon, McNeil, and Actelion. It developed breakthrough treatments including RhoGAM for Rh incompatibility, HIV therapies, and the antidepressant Spravato (esketamine). The company has played major roles during public health crises from the 1918 influenza pandemic to COVID-19.
Johnson & Johnson has faced significant legal and ethical challenges, including the Tylenol murders, hip implant failures, Risperdal marketing claims, transvaginal mesh lawsuits, and talc-related cancer cases. In 2023, it spun off its consumer health division as the publicly traded Kenvue, focusing its business on Innovative Medicine and MedTech. By 2025, the company reported nearly $89 billion in revenue, continued large-scale acquisitions.
Robert Wood Johnson began his professional training at age 16 as a pharmaceutical apprentice at an apothecary run by his mother's cousin, James G. Wood, in Poughkeepsie, New York. Johnson co-founded his own company with George Seabury in 1873. The New York-based Seabury & Johnson became known for its medicated plasters. Robert Wood Johnson represented the company at the 1876 World's Fair. There he heard Joseph Lister's explanation of a new procedure: antiseptic surgery. Johnson parted ways with his business partner Seabury in 1885.
Robert Wood Johnson joined his brothers, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson, and created a line of ready-to-use sterile surgical dressings in 1886. They founded Johnson & Johnson in 1886 with 14 employees, eight women and six men. Johnson & Johnson opened its first factory building in the old Janeway and Carpenter factory on Neilson Street in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
They manufactured sterile surgical supplies, household products, and medical guides. Those products initially featured a logo that resembled the signature of James Wood Johnson. Robert Wood Johnson served as the first president of the company.
The company sold medicated plasters such as Johnson & Johnson's Black Perfect Taffeta Court Plaster and also manufactured the world's first sterile surgical products, including sutures, absorbent cotton, and gauze. The company published "Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound Treatment", a guide on how to do sterile surgery using its products, and in 1888, distributed 85,000 copies to doctors and pharmacists across the United States. The manual was translated into three languages and distributed worldwide. The first commercial first aid kit was designed in 1888 to support railroad construction workers, who were often hundreds of miles from medical care. The kits included antiseptic emergency supplies and directions for field use. In 1901, the company published the Handbook of First Aid, a guide on applying first aid.
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Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technologies corporation headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the company is ranked No. 42 on the 2024 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations. In 2024, the company was ranked 45th in the Forbes Global 2000. Johnson & Johnson has a global workforce of approximately 138,000 employees who are led by the company's current chairman and chief executive officer, Joaquin Duato. Johnson & Johnson is one of the world's most valuable companies and is one of only two U.S.-based companies that has a prime credit rating of AAA.
Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886 by three brothers, Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson, and Edward Mead Johnson, selling ready-to-use sterile surgical dressings. Over time, it developed some of the most recognizable healthcare products, including the first commercial first aid kit, maternity kits, baby powder, Band-Aids, Tylenol, and disposable contact lenses, establishing itself as a leading provider of medical products and consumer healthcare solutions.
Johnson & Johnson expanded globally through acquisitions of major pharmaceutical and medical device companies such as Janssen, Ethicon, McNeil, and Actelion. It developed breakthrough treatments including RhoGAM for Rh incompatibility, HIV therapies, and the antidepressant Spravato (esketamine). The company has played major roles during public health crises from the 1918 influenza pandemic to COVID-19.
Johnson & Johnson has faced significant legal and ethical challenges, including the Tylenol murders, hip implant failures, Risperdal marketing claims, transvaginal mesh lawsuits, and talc-related cancer cases. In 2023, it spun off its consumer health division as the publicly traded Kenvue, focusing its business on Innovative Medicine and MedTech. By 2025, the company reported nearly $89 billion in revenue, continued large-scale acquisitions.
Robert Wood Johnson began his professional training at age 16 as a pharmaceutical apprentice at an apothecary run by his mother's cousin, James G. Wood, in Poughkeepsie, New York. Johnson co-founded his own company with George Seabury in 1873. The New York-based Seabury & Johnson became known for its medicated plasters. Robert Wood Johnson represented the company at the 1876 World's Fair. There he heard Joseph Lister's explanation of a new procedure: antiseptic surgery. Johnson parted ways with his business partner Seabury in 1885.
Robert Wood Johnson joined his brothers, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson, and created a line of ready-to-use sterile surgical dressings in 1886. They founded Johnson & Johnson in 1886 with 14 employees, eight women and six men. Johnson & Johnson opened its first factory building in the old Janeway and Carpenter factory on Neilson Street in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
They manufactured sterile surgical supplies, household products, and medical guides. Those products initially featured a logo that resembled the signature of James Wood Johnson. Robert Wood Johnson served as the first president of the company.
The company sold medicated plasters such as Johnson & Johnson's Black Perfect Taffeta Court Plaster and also manufactured the world's first sterile surgical products, including sutures, absorbent cotton, and gauze. The company published "Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound Treatment", a guide on how to do sterile surgery using its products, and in 1888, distributed 85,000 copies to doctors and pharmacists across the United States. The manual was translated into three languages and distributed worldwide. The first commercial first aid kit was designed in 1888 to support railroad construction workers, who were often hundreds of miles from medical care. The kits included antiseptic emergency supplies and directions for field use. In 1901, the company published the Handbook of First Aid, a guide on applying first aid.