Category Archives: Milestones

Today we take new technologies like high-tech videoconferencing, instant messaging, Twitter and video chats for granted.  But that wasn’t always the case.  Ninety-three years ago (on May 29th, 1916, to be exact), Johnson & Johnson took part in a demonstration … Continue reading →

Since August is vacation time, this post was inspired by a Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies employee who sent me these photos from her vacation: Look What’s In the Smithsonian! The photos are from her trip to the Smithsonian’s … Continue reading →

Click here to watch Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William C. Weldon Ring the NYSE Closing Bell Johnson & Johnson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William Weldon rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange this week (on … Continue reading →

This July marks the third anniversary of the Kilmer House blog.  The first post went up on July 12, 2006 – the first-ever blog post on the first-ever blog for Johnson & Johnson.  And now, three years later, to celebrate … Continue reading →

2009 is a big year for anniversaries at Johnson & Johnson.  For instance, it was 70 years ago (in 1939) that Dr. Philip Levine, working in our laboratories, discovered the human Rh factor.  It’s been 60 years (1949) since we … Continue reading →

April usually means warmer weather and spring flowers, but at Johnson & Johnson it means it’s time for the Company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders.   Everyone knows these three things about the meeting:  it has always been held on the last … Continue reading →

Robert Wood Johnson (seated in center) and  Employees In my last post, I mentioned that Robert Wood Johnson, son of one of the Company’s founders, was able to put many of his ideas about running a business into practice when … Continue reading →

Recently, Johnson & Johnson Chairman and CEO William Weldon told investment analysts that, due to the strength of the Company’s leadership, our broad base of business and our fiscal discipline, he remained optimistic about our ability to adjust to the … Continue reading →

Artist’s Rendering of the First Johnson & Johnson Building The beginning of January 2009 marks 123 years since James Wood Johnson got off a New York to Philadelphia train in New Brunswick, New Jersey to rent space for a new … Continue reading →

My last post traced the very first seeds of our disaster relief program to the production of dressings to help wounded soldiers in 1898.  Even though the costs of making these dressings turned out to exceed the price received for … Continue reading →