The world’s sixth-largest biologics company, The world’s fifth-largest pharmaceuticals company
Employees/ Area: approximately 127,100 employees / more than 250 operating companies in 60 countries
Headquarter: New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Products: Related to human health and well-being
Competitors: Novartis AG, Pfizer Inc, Sanofi SA, Merck & Co Inc, GlaxoSmithKline,Roche Holding AG, AstraZeneca PLC, Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Amgen Inc, Gilead Sciences Inc.
Includes a broad range of products used in the baby care, oral care, skin care, over-the-counter pharmaceutical, women’s health
and wound care markets.
Focused on five therapeutic areas: immunology,
infectious diseases and vaccines, neuroscience, oncology and cardiovascular and metabolic diseases
Includes a broad range of products used in the orthopaedic, surgery, cardiovascular, diabetes care and vision care fields
• Research and Development – Research activities represent a significant part of the Company’s businesses. Worldwide
costs of research and development activities amounted to $9.0 billion, $8.5 billion and $8.2 billion for fiscal years 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
Valuation price: -3.3% to the current price
History
The main reason to start the company was an inspiration to solve a problem with defense against airborne germs in operating rooms and to protect patients from infection.
Robert Wood Johnson solved the problem and started his company in 1886 with two brothers, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson in New Brunswick, New Jersey. There were just 14 employees at that time.
Johnson & Johnson was incorporated in the State of New Jersey on November 10, 1887.
The actual product was a medicinal plaster, an elaborate early version of the Band-Aid. The first bacteriological laboratory was established in 1891.
Johnson’s Baby Powder made its debut in 1893, went on the market in 1894, and the Company’s baby products business was born.
1910: Robert Wood died, his brother James Wood became president, before James’ son, Robert Wood Johnson II became president in 1932.
1921: Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages make their debut.
25-Sep, 1944: Listed shares on the New York Stock Exchange for public investors
Johnson & Johnson’s important M&A: McNeil Laboratories(1959), Janssen Pharmaceutica (1961), Neutrogena, Cordis, Centocor, ALZA , DePuy, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and others.
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