History of the corporation
Brothers James and Edward Mean Johnson founded their medical products company in 1885 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1886 Robert Wood Johnson joined his brothers to make the antiseptic surgical dressing he developed, with 14 employees on the fourth floor of a small building that once was a wallpaper factory. In 1887, the company was incorporated as Johnson and Johnson. Johnson and Johnson entered the surgical dressing industry with few hospitals in the United States that were large enough to use Lister's methods of antisepsis. The first products were improved m…
