Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson discovers and sells prescription medicines for cancer, immune and brain diseases, and medical devices for surgery, heart, orthopaedics and eye care, mostly through wholesalers and hospitals.
Its top product is a cancer drug, not a Band-Aid.
One multiple myeloma medicine family now outsells every other product the company makes.
How big is Johnson & Johnson?
Medicines lead, devices follow.
- Innovative Medicine64%$60.4B
- MedTech36%$33.8B
Medicines plus devices, constantly renewed.
- 1Cancer and immunology drugs
- 2Surgeons and hospitals
- 3Replace expiring-patent products
Newly launched products bring about a quarter of sales, offsetting products that lose patent protection.
- The Vanguard Group10.1%
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CEO: Joaquin Duato
- 1886Johnson & Johnson is founded
- 1944Johnson & Johnson goes public
- 1961Acquires Janssen Pharmaceutica
- 1987Launches ACUVUE disposable contact lenses
- 1998Acquires DePuy
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