About Business
Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational company that is famous for pharmaceutical, medical, and biotechnology technologies. It was founded in January 1886 by Robert Wood Johnson, Edward Mead Johnson, and James Wood Johnson. They started the company by selling sterile surgical dressings. The company is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange. The Johnson & Johnson company separated its consumer healthcare business into Kenvue, a publicly traded company. It emphasized producing pharmaceutical prescription and medical device technologies. The company ranked 40th on the 2023 Fortune Global 2000. It has a workforce of about 130,000 employees, and it is managed by Joaquin Duato, the company?s chairman and chief executive officer.
