Company History:

One of America's most admired companies, Johnson & Johnson (J & J) is one of the largest
healthcare firms in the world and one of the most diversified. Its operations are organized into
three business segments: pharmaceutical, which generates 39 percent of revenues and 61
percent of operating income

Early History: From Surgical Dressings to Baby Cream

J & J traces its beginnings to the late 1800s, when Joseph Lister's discovery that airborne
germs were a source of infection in operating rooms sparked the imagination of Robert Wood
Johnson, a New England druggist. Johnson joined forces with his brothers, James Wood
Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson, and the three began producing dressings in 1886 in New
Brunswick, New Jersey, with 14 employees in a former wallpaper factory.

Johnson & Johnson was founded more than 120 years ago. Since then, we’ve brought the world new ideas and
products that have transformed human health and well-being.

Johnson & Johnson spread its roots to the world’s largest democracy, India, during the endemic post-independence turmoil of 1947. It was Mr. Patrick Whaley who set
about with confidence and determination during this period of turbulence to begin the wok of establishing Johnson & Johnson in the subcontinent. Things progressed
quickly and by 1948, Johnson’s Baby Powder was being manufactured by British Drug House in Prabhadevi, Bombay, and marketed by the company. 

Other consumer products like TEK toothbrushes, Johnson’s Baby Cream and Prickly Heat Powder followed suit. However, highly specialized products like Belladonna
plasters, pharmaceuticals and Permacel Tapes were imported from the parent company. It was only ten years later that the company began to manufacture its own
products.

In September 1957, a new company, Johnson & Johnson India Ltd. was created and registered with twelve employees on its rolls.

In the 50 years since its establishment as a modest 12-employee outfit, Johnson & Johnson Ltd. has gained a reputation for delivering high-quality products at competitive
prices. Our success, we believe, stems from our staunch commitment to caring for and catering to the needs of our customers and employees.

The Johnson brothers were very resourceful when it came to packaging the Company’s early
products.  In our early days, Johnson & Johnson bought cigar boxes from the local cigar box
manufacturer in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to use as packaging for some of our medicated
plasters.

The consumer division in India has 5 major franchises namely - Baby, Wound Care, Women's Health, Skin Care and Adult Toiletries. Johnson's Baby is the
leading brand of Johnson & Johnson in India, and is recognized the world over by mothers, and healthcare professionals as the trusted name in baby care. Johnson's
Baby products are the mildest and safest products for use on babies.

Band-Aid is the well-known brand of Adhesive Bandages from the stable of Johnson & Johnson in the Wound Care portfolio. Band-Aid enjoys the market leadership in
this category, and is internationally known as an innovative brand. Together with Savlon, they comprise the Wound Care Franchise. Stayfree, a brand of sanitary
napkins from Johnson & Johnson is also the market leader in the Sanitary Napkins category with its varied assortment of napkins suited for every need.

Johnson’s Baby is the trusted brand of skin care products for mothers the world over. The strength of this brand is because of the trust of mothers, the long heritage of
safe and pure products specially designed for babies as well as the trust of professionals who continue to endorse our products.
Johnson & Johnson has more than 250 companies located in 57 countries around the world. Our
Family of Companies is organized into several business segments comprised of franchises and
therapeutic categories

Johnson & Johnson was founded more than 120 years ago on a revolutionary idea: Doctors and nurses should use sterile
sutures, dressings and bandages to treat peoples’ wounds. Since then, we have brought to the world, new ideas and products
that have transformed human health and well-being.

Our Family of Companies is organized into several business segments comprised of franchises and therapeutic categories -
Consumer Health Care, Medical Devices & Diagnostics and Pharmaceuticals.

In the 50 years of operating in India, Johnson & Johnson Limited, India has gained a reputation for delivering high-quality
products.
 

Today, we employ more than 2000 people and the businesses span Consumer, Medical Devices and Diagnostics,
Pharmaceuticals and Vision Care.

Johnson & Johnson India is an employer of choice and is a recipient of several awards, which recognize it as one of the best
employers in India.

BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages are one of the most recognizable of the Company’s products. They were invented in 1920 by an employee named Earle Dickson,
who worked as a cotton buyer. His wife Josephine was prone to kitchen accidents. Earle wanted a bandage his wife could apply herself, so he took two of the Company’s
early products – adhesive tape and gauze – and combined them by laying out a long piece of surgical tape and placing small pieces of gauze on it in intervals. To keep
the adhesive from sticking, he covered it with crinoline fabric. Whenever his wife cut herself, she cut a piece of the tape and gauze pad and used it as a bandage. Dickson
mentioned his invention at work, and a new product was born. The first BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages went on the market in 1921, and were the first ready-
made adhesive bandages that consumers could apply themselves. Earle Dickson was made a vice president at Johnson & Johnson. 
 

Subsidiaries
Neutrogena
Main Occupation of
Robert Wood Johnson II
Annual Turnover
$53,324,000,000
Produces or Provides
soap, shampoo, medical device, Microtiter plate, Personal care

Operating Income
$15,315,000,000
Market Capitalisation
$190,000,000,000