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1 COMPANY PROFILE
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is one of the largest healthcare firm s in the world and one of the most diversified. Its operations are or ganized into three business segments: pharmaceutical, which generates 47 percent of revenues and 58 percent of operating profits; medical devices and diagnostics, which accounts for 36 percent of revenues an d 31 percent of operating profits; and consumer, which contributes 17 percent of revenues and 11 percent of operating profits. J&J's pharmaceutical products include drugs for family planning, mental illness, nervous system diseases, gastroenterology, oncology, immunotherapy, cardiovascular disease, pain management, allergies, and other. The medical devices and diagnostics segment includes surgical and patient care equipment and devices, diagnostic products, joint replay cements, coronary stents, and contact lenses. The company's well-know n line of consumer products includes the Johnson's baby care line, the Neutrogena skin and hair care line, and Stayfree feminine hygi ene products, the Reach oral care line, Band-Aid brand adhesive banda ges, Imodium A-D diarrhea treatment, Mylanta gastrointestinal product s, Pepcid AC acid controller, Tylenol, Motrin, and St. Joseph pain re lievers, and Benecol and Splenda sweeteners. J&J generates about 40 percent of its revenues outside the United States, through its net work of 200 operating companies in 57 countries, selling products around the world.
Mother care is mum-and-kid friendly. The baby care retailer sells maternity, baby, and children's clothes; nursery equipment; and toys from more than 1,440 company-owned and franchised stores, about 820 of which are outside the UK. Mother care operates in about 60 countries, primarily in other parts of Europe, the Middle and Far East, and in Africa and Southeast Asia. It also offers its merchandise, including the in-house MODA maternity clothing line, through catalogs and its website. Mother care serves the retail toy market with its Early Learning Centre (ELC) unit. While the company has struggled at home, it has been increasingly successful overseas, particularly in Russia and India.
Pigeon Corporation manufactures, sells, imports, and exports baby and child care, maternity, womens care, home healthcare, and nursing care products in Japan and internationally. The company operates through Domestic Baby & Mother Care Business, Child-Rearing Support Services, Health Care & Nursing Care Business, Overseas Business, China Business, and Other segments.
It offers breastfeeding-related products; weaning-related products; skincare products; wet tissues; baby foods; baby outing products; feminine care products, such as supplements and maternity products; and others. The company also provides child-rearing support, babysitter dispatch, and preschool education services; and operates child-minding facilities and daycare centers. In addition, it provides incontinence protection products, wheel chairs, products for nursing care facilities, nursing care support services, and others. The company was formerly known as Pigeon Honyuki Honpo Corporation and changed its name to Pigeon Corporation in 1966. Pigeon Corporation was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.