Charles
MARCH 02, 2009 01:56 PM

I'm sure you know, but your readers probably do not, that Edward Mead Johnson left NJ & J&J because one o his children was quite ill and could not nurse. He devoted his full attention to developing a baby formula
for his child and other children with similar problems. That product was Pablum and the company which he started was called Mead Johnson & Co. He moved the company to Evansville, Indiana to be closer to the raw materials required. That company grew and developed many other nutritional products for infants and adults. It was acquired by Bristol Meyers in the 1960's, but was just recently spun off in the 1st IPO of 2009 and is now traded as MJN. To this day they make the products conceived of and developed by Edward Mead Johnson.

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