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Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is the global leading firm for carrying out the processes of manufacturing and sales of medical, health care, and pharmaceutical products for consumers and to fulfill the needs of research and developmental activities on a broader range of health care fields. The company has been founded back to the year in 1886 by Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson and has been head-quartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey and the consumer-division is being headed in Skillman, New Jersey. The company has been assisted with the help of around 250 auxiliary units which operates in about 57 of the countries worldwide and the selling of its productions is being done in 175 of the countries. In the year of 2011, this company had acquired a sales reach up to 65 Billion $ in the field of pharmaceuticals and is now trade with the help of the New York Stock Exchange and is one of the main component of Dow Jones Industrial Average and also of S&P 500 Component. Fortune 500 has also given the space to Johnson & Johnson in its listings along with the top rank of Harris Interactive National Corporate Reputation Survey and the tag of ‘world's most respected company’ by Barron’s Magazine and at last had been given the award of Benjamin Franklin for the ‘Public Diplomacy by the U.S. State Department’, the first award given to any of the Corporation.
ALZA Corporation, LifeScan, Inc., McNeil Nutritionals, Biosense Webster, Inc., Cilag, Cordis Corporation, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Penaten, Tibotec and many more names are included in the list of the auxiliaries of this company. And for naming the brands acquired by this company, there are also a fewer examples starting from the house-hold name for medical and first-aid purpose products i.e. BandAid, Tylenol, Johnson's baby products, Neutrogena skin and beauty products, Clean & Clear facial wash, Acuvue, Cortef, Reactine, Motrin, Benadryl, Calprofen, Simponi, and the list is not completed yet.
 
There are three of the main division that have been made by this company and those includes Consumer, Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices & Diagnostics. Consumer division take care of broader ranges of consumer-health and personal-care productions that may be of baby, beauty, oral-care, women health category or related to nutrition. Pharmaceutical division is for focusing of medical needs that have not been fulfilled yet including the therapeutical treatment of immunology,  neuro-science, cardio-vascular, oncology or that of metabolism. Medical Devices & Diagnostics divisions go for broader ranges of services and products with the distribution to the whole-salers, retailing entities, hospitals, clinics and other diagnostic labs where these products are used for the researches and treatments by physician, nurses and therapists. The main focus of this section includes the cardio-vascular diseases, diabetic care, visionary care, wound-care, preventing of infectious materials, invasive surgeries (minimal type) and for diagnosis.