70 Years of Johnson & Johnson in India

Johnson & Johnson spread its root into India 70 years ago. Since then, the company has brought many innovative ideas, products and services to improve the health and well-being of people in India. The company today employs more than 3,500 people and is organized into three business segments: Consumer Healthcare, Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals.

Consumer Healthcare
The consumer division of Johnson & Johnson India has a portfolio of iconic brands that are #1 or #2 in their categories. Our products, across baby care, feminine hygiene, face care, OTC, oral care and wound care, feature brands such as Johnson's Baby®, Stayfree®, Clean & Clear®, Benadryl®, Listerine®, BAND-AID® and ORSL™ that are trusted by consumers and healthcare professionals in India and around the world. By anticipating needs and creating solutions and experiences, we help people live healthy, vibrant lives.

Medical Devices
Having made significant contributions to surgery for more than 60 years in India, the medical division of Johnson & Johnson India is the largest medical devices company in India with products dedicated to addressing unmet needs in the fields of orthopaedics, cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular and obstructive disease, neurovascular disease, arrhythmias, diabetes care, bariatric and metabolic surgery, cancer surgery, vision care, general surgery, urologic surgery, hernia surgery and infection prevention. We touch the lives of around 40 million patients every year.

Pharmaceuticals
Janssen India, the pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson India, is dedicated to addressing and solving some of the most important unmet medical needs of our time in India, in oncology, immunology, neuroscience and analgesia, dermatology, infectious diseases and metabolic diseases. At Johnson & Johnson India, we continue to be driven by a vision of caring for the people by anticipating their needs, creating solutions and experiences that help them and those that they care for living live healthy, vibrant lives.

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  1947
  

  Johnson & Johnson Spreads Its Roots to India

  In 1947, Johnson & Johnson expands into India, marketing Johnson’s® Baby Powder. Today, Johnson’s® remains a trusted brand by mothers and doctors.
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  1957
  

  Johnson & Johnson Is Incorporated in India

  In September 1957, Johnson & Johnson incorporated a separate legal entity in India with 12 employees. Today, the company employs 6,040 people across three business segments: consumer products, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

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  1959
  

  The First Manufacturing Facility for Consumer Products Is Established in Mumbai

  Production began in 1959 at the Johnson & Johnson India plant in Mulund, Mumbai, for Johnson’s® Baby Powder, BAND-AID® and specialized products.
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  1962
  

  The First Medical Devices (Sutures) Manufacturing Facility Is Established

  In 1962, the first Ethicon suture manufacturing facility was set up in Mumbai for catgut sutures. Suture manufacturing was expanded with full-fledged state-of-the-art plants in Aurangabad (1991) and Baddi (2007), respectively.

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  1968
  

  Johnson & Johnson Begins Manufacturing Sanitary Napkins

  In 1968, the company introduces the Stayfree® brand to India. Prior to this, women had to rely on homemade methods that were often ineffective
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  1975
  

  A Pharmaceutical and Ethical Products Manufacturing Facility Is Established

  Ethnor Ltd (merged with Johnson & Johnson in 1994) set up a plant for manufacturing pharmaceutical and ethical products of Ortho McNeil Laboratories and Cilag Chemie (members of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies).

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  1975
  

  Vicryl® Sutures Enter the Market

  The Vicryl® Suture, a synthetic absorbable suture that can be naturally absorbed into the skin, was launched in India. In 2008, a triclosan-coated version of the Vicryl® Plus Antibacterial Suture was introduced. Today, in the field of synthetic absorbable sutures, the company also offers PDS® and Monocryl® sutures.

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  1989
  

  The Ethicon Plant Receives the President’s Safety Award

  The Ethicon catgut manufacturing facility was awarded the prestigious President's Safety Award in 1989, a recognition of the company’s high manufacturing safety and quality standards.
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  1993
  

  The First Professional Education Institute for Healthcare Professionals Is Established

  To help improve access to quality healthcare and accelerate the building of a skilled India, Johnson & Johnson India took a pioneering step in 1993 by establishing its first professional education institute–the Ethicon Institute of Surgical Education (EISE) in Mumbai. Since then, the company has trained more than 250,000 healthcare professionals through its owned institutes and via partnerships with government and educational institutions.

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  1998
  

  DePuy Joins the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

  In 1998, Johnson & Johnson acquired DePuy followed by Synthes in 2012 to tackle some of the toughest problems in the orthopaedics industry. Today, their joint reconstruction, sports medicine and facial fracture repair technologies can be found in hospitals, clinics, and sports arenas across the world.

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  1999
  

  An Analytical and Pharmaceutical Development R&D Center Opens

  A commercial drug stability testing center was set up in Mulund, Mumbai, in 1999. Today, it is a full-fledged Analytical Centre of Excellence and plays a critical role in the development of new medicines for patients around the world, delivering cutting-edge development through open innovation that connects experts, researchers and partner organizations and firms. Johnson & Johnson India is one of the few multinational pharmaceutical companies with an analytical development center in the country.

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  2009
  

  The Company Begins Partnering With the Indian Academy of Pediatrics to Support Child Survival

  Johnson & Johnson India’s Neonatal Resuscitation Program was founded in 2009 and is the largest child survival project to be implemented in India. Over seven years, Johnson & Johnson India, along with the Indian Academy of Pediatrics, has trained more than 180,000 healthcare professionals and infant caregivers on resuscitation skills to reduce infant mortality in India.

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  2013
  

  Construction Begins on a New Manufacturing Facility for Consumer Products

  The foundation laid stone for Johnson & Johnson India’s largest consumer products greenfield facility in Telangana to manufacture personal hygiene and skincare products.
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  2015
  

  The Company Launches a New Class of Type 2 Diabetes Medicine in India

  In 2015, Janssen India, the pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson India, introduced canagliflozin, a new class of medication called sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

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  2015
  

  The Company Partners With NIPER for a Medical Device Postgraduate Program

  Johnson & Johnson India entered a unique public-private partnership with the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) in Ahmedabad for a postgraduate training program for future medical devices industry regulators.

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  2016
  

  Global Clinical Operations Are Established in India

  Johnson & Johnson India establishes global clinical operations in India helping patients access and participate in global clinical trials for the company’s innovative therapies.
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  2016
  

  The Company Establishes an Innovative Partnership With the Government of India on MDR-TB

  In 2016, Janssen India donated 600 courses of bedaquiline to the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP) of India for use as part of a conditional access program for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Discovered by Janssen researchers, bedaquiline is a therapy with a novel mechanism of action against TB, and addresses a significant unmet need for patients with MDR-TB.

  Since then, the program is due to be expanded, with an additional 10,000 courses of treatment to be received by RNTCP through the Johnson & Johnson USAID donation program.

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  2017
  

  The Company Supports the Humana People to People Project, Designed to Save and Improve the Lives of Women and Children

  Johnson & Johnson began supporting the “Raising Healthy & Educated Community” project, which aims to improve the quality of life, basic and preventive healthcare and the quality of education for six villages in the Mahbubnagar district of Telangana, with its main focus on women and children. This project has successfully organized static clinic and health camps to reach out to approximately 15,000 direct beneficiaries. It also focuses on strengthening preschool education for 3- to 6-year-old children, thereby improving health as well as the quality of education in the community.

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  2018
  

  Johnson & Johnson India Joins Forces with the Government of Maharashtra to Boost Public Health in the State

  Johnson & Johnson India announced a strategic

US online retail giant Amazon to build new logistics center in Spain

The hub will be located in the Toledo town of Illescas and is likely to create 900 jobsAmazon announced on Thursday that it will be opening a new logistics center in Illescas, Toledo, from where it will be able to serve customers all over Europe. The American online retailing giant’s new project in Spain is expected to create 900 jobs in its first three years of operation.

The new warehouse will be located in the Plataforma Central Iberum industrial park in the municipality, which is located around 40 kilometers south of Madrid, and will count on usable space of more than 100,000 square meters (around the size of 12 soccer fields), according to a press release from the company.

The firm has already begun the hiring process for a number of positions, from engineers to specialists in human resources, information technology and warehouse management. Jobseekers can apply at the website www.trabajaenamazon.es.

The Toledo center will allow Amazon to scale up its European logistics network, which is currently made up of more than 30 centers in seven countries, with the aim of continuing to increase its catalogue of products and satisfy the rising demand of customers, the operations director for Spain and Italy, Fred Pattje, explained.

expansion of external vendors, many of them small local businesses. “The installation of the multinational Amazon is an investment in the future and the development of our municipality,” said the mayor of Illescas, José Manuel Tofiño. “It’s an opportunity to create jobs and to create an industrial fabric that will make us a reference point for local, provincial and regional development.”

Amazon launched in Spain in 2011, and its first logistical center, located in San Fernando de Henares in Madrid, began operations in 2012.

Silly Susan – Sweden’s best kept herring recipe

The story about eggs

In Sweden we love our eggs at Easter. We eat them, we paint them and we fill them with lollies. The history of eating eggs at Easter goes all the way back to the Middle Age. When the long fast finally came to an end, the storage of eggs was overloaded from all the hatching chickens. And now when people could finally eat again, eggs became a big part of their food intake during Easter.

PAINTING EGGS

In modern time we started to decorate our eggs. A lot of people paint their boiled eggs with water colouring or pens. It can be any kind of motive, whatever your creativity feels for. A little more advanced technique is to make a tiny hole in a raw egg and blow out the egg. And just keep the shell for painting.

EASTER CANDY EGGS

Easter is the time of the year when Swede’s go absolutely crazy about lollies. Up to 6 000 tons of lollies are sold during Easter week. One of the reasons is that we love giving away eggs filled with lollies and chocolate. The eggs can be in different sizes and made out of cardboard, jam-packed with sweets. They get hidden in the garden for kids to search. Having say that, doesn't mean adults are not included in the eggs giveaway. Anyone love a egg filled with lollies for Easter.

Silly Susan – Sweden’s best kept herring recipe

The little pickled fish called Sill (herring) is the heart of Swedish traditional food. And of course a must over Easter.

At Fika we have our own pickled Sill called Silly Susan. A recipe shop owner Sophie’s mum came up with. Her name is Susan and she is an expert in pickling Sill. Every year she tries out new recipes but Silly Susan never gets replaced. She comes back year after year because she is that good.

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3 TIPS HOW TO MAKE A SWEDISH EASTER AT HOME

1. Make your own Silly Susan

As we love to share our Swedish joy’s and want you to get a bite of Sweden this Easter. Here is the recipe of famous Silly Susan:

I N G R E D I E N T S
250 g pickled herring
40 ml mayo
80 ml sour cream
3 sprigs of chives
3 sprigs of parsley
3 sprigs of dill
1/2 punnet tarragon
1 small clove of garlic
1/4 lemon
Pepper to season

M E T H O D
Drain the herring
Finely chop the fresh herbs
Crush the garlic
Squeeze lemon juice
Mix together all the ingredients in a bowl

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2. Get your Swedish Easter Egg Candy Box

Choose from 4 beautifully crafted Easter Eggs and fill them with your favourite candy.

ORDER EASTER EGG

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3. Colour your eggs

An easy trick to get a fun colour on your eggs is to boil them with different vegetables or spices.

Y E L L O W
For a yellow colour – boil eggs with 1 teaspoon of turmeric.

B L U E
For a blue colour – boil with blueberries or red cabbage.

Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar in the boiling water, to make the colour stick better to the eggs. And leave the boiled eggs in the water for at least 1 hour.

1 Million Free McMuffins: McDonald's Launches Massive Promotional Giveaway in China (VIDEO)

McDonald's will be giving away 1 million free McMuffins in a massive promotion. However, at the moment the fast food chain only plans on giving the offer in China and the nearby regions, which will disappoint customers in the United States and the rest of the world.

According to a report in the Huffington Post, state TV in China is set to run a special program on corporate malpractice this week to coincide with World Consumer Rights Day.

THe program is called "3.15" and is described as being similar to "60 Minutes." The show will dedicate this week to exposing corporate malpractice by major companies.

Already last year, McDonald's was the subject of reports criticizing it for food safety.

Some have claimed that McDonald's promotional 1 million free McMuffins give away is just a stunt to counter World Consumer Rights Day - however, the company has said their promotion has nothing to do with it.

Vivian Zhang, senior director of communications at McDonald's China, said: "We have been through it once and we know how it feels … (But) There is no connection (to World Consumer Rights Day)."

In addition, Lynn Tan, the Managing Director of McDonald's Taiwan, where another 300,000 McMuffins will be given away for free, has said: "Breakfast truly is the most important meal of the day. McDonald's Taiwan knows well the full potential of the breakfast market in Taiwan," according to the Epoch Times.

Here is a video promotion by McDonald's for its Egg McMuffin:

Sony Surprised PlayStation Fans With Forgotten PS2 Logo Trick

With a single tweet, Sony plunged long-term PlayStation fans into nostalgia by reminding them that, yes, they could indeed shift the PlayStation logo on their beloved PS2 game system. Sony originally began the PlayStation line back in 1994 with its first console release, followed by what will soon be four additional generations of PlayStation game systems.

The PlayStation 2 was an immensely popular product for its day, and vies with the Nintendo Switch as the best-selling game console of all time. This record remains in the minds of many fans as they prepare for the upcoming release of the PS5 later this year. The PS5 is expected to add 4K compatibility to the console line while also being backwards compatible with the previous (and also high-selling) PS4.

Recently, however, Sony used a quick video clip on the official PlayStation Twitter feed to remind players of an old PS2 trick that many had forgotten – if they ever knew it at all. The disc drive for the PS2 included a tiny original PlayStation logo in the style of its time, and although the logo has changed with every console release, including the new PS5 logo, the PS2 version remains a fan favorite. On this console, players could rotate the logo vertical or horizontal. Since the PS2 itself could be placed vertically or horizontally, this meant the logo could be turned to always face the right way for dedicated brand fans.

Followers responded to this reminder with surprise or sudden memories of their favorite PS2 games, plus other console inventions which have now passed into obscurity, like the infamous PS2 memory cards. However, Sony had a good reason to bring up this nostalgia-fest at this particular time. March 4th was the 20th anniversary of the PlayStation 2, and the official PlayStation Twitter account wanted to remind everyone of that fact, including asking fans to call out their favorite games from the old console. Answers included popular titles like Metal Gear Solid 2, Silent Hill 2, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Kingdom Hearts, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, and Final Fantasy X.

The anniversary is reason enough to take a trip down memory lane for the gamers old enough to remember the PlayStation 2, but it would be great if Sony was also teasing some secret little features for the PS5. So far, it doesn’t look like the PS5 can go vertical, but there are some hints that it may be able to flip completely upside down, or even be stacked with multiple consoles for a powerful setup. Next year, perhaps players will see Microsoft going down a similar nostalgia road for the 20th anniversary of the Xbox – although without the rotating logo trick, of course.

Homemade Fast Food and Takeout Favorites (That Are at Least as Good as the Originals)

Homemade Chick-Fil-A Sandwiches

[Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

Want to eat Chick-Fil-A on a Sunday? What's stopping you? All politics aside, you can indeed make your very own crispy-and-salty chicken sandwich with those two crucial dill pickle chips, just like the original, any day of the week. The key to the moist chicken breast is brining for several hours, while a seasoned batter adds a crispy, flavorful coating.

Taco Bell Cemita

[Photograph: Vicky Wasik]

Unfortunately, Taco Bell has yet to introduce its own version of the Mexican sandwich, but—with a few extra ingredients—you can make your very own. A simple Taco Bell Cemita takes the insides of two soft tacos, plus a side of guacamole and salsa, and piles it all on a cemita bun with tomato, cilantro, chipotles in adobo, and quesillo Oaxaca.

Chinese-American Beef and Broccoli With Oyster Sauce

[Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

Tender strips of marinated beef, seared to a smoky crispness in a hot wok, with charred florets of bright green broccoli, all tossed in a savory-sweet, garlic- and ginger-scented oyster sauce. That's what beef with broccoli should be. The average food-court version is a sad, sad excuse for a meal, but your homemade beef with broccoli will be superb.

In-N-Out's Double-Double, Animal Style

[Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

If you're not lucky enough to live near an In-N-Out (hello, East Coasters), or just have an abiding need for home access to In-N-Out (hello, extremely loyal West Coasters), then we've got just the recipe for you. To re-create the Double-Double, grind your own extra-fatty chuck to make the patties, and grill them in a squirt of mustard to do it up Animal Style.

Better Than Chipotle's Beef Barbacoa

[Photograph: J. Kenji López-Alt]

Not only can you make Chipotle's much-loved barbacoa at home, you can make it way better. A homemade adobo sauce and seared oxtails add big flavor to the slow-cooked beef. It's a labor of love, but it makes the best beef tacos around.