Johnson & Johnson Corporation

Johnson and Johnson has been a very broadly-based organization that has been manufacturing health care products since a very long time. It started its footsteps as a child in the mid 1880s with the production of ready-to-use, ready-made surgical dressing. It was the first company to have applied the theory of wound treatment by use of antiseptics. With its application, the chances of infection in postoperative patients reduced greatly. Robert Wood Johnson, the father of Johnson and Johnson took note of the theory of antisepsis which was provided by Sir Joseph Lister. Robert Wood Johnson then sat down to practically apply Sir Joseph Lister's theory. In 1885, Robert Wood Johnson called in his brothers James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson and the three entered a partnership. A wallpaper factory was taken over by the Johnson brothers and they set up a small operation with only...
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