1. JOHNSON & JOHNSON
1.1. Johnson & Johnson named a 2020 Fortune World's most admired company
For the 18th year, Johnson & Johnson has been named to Fortune's list of the World's Most Admired Companies. Johnson & Johnson also placed #1 in the Pharmaceutical category worldwide for the seventh consecutive year.
To compile the international list, Fortune magazine partners with consulting firm Korn Ferry to survey industry analysts, as well as top executives and directors from Fortune 1000, Global 500, and other major non‐US companies. Their remits identify companies with the strongest reputations based on a mix of nine attributes, including innovativeness, social responsibility to the community, and the ability to attract and retain talented people.
1.1.1. A year of ground‐breaking work from a World's most admired company
One of the key tenets in Johnson & Johnson's guiding mission statement, Our Credo, is a responsibility to be a consistent positive force as it helps tackle some of the world's most pressing unmet health care needs.
The company marked many positive milestones in this regard in 2019, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a treatment from the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson that may help provide more hope for some patients living with metastatic urothelial cancer.
Johnson & Johnson also made a commitment to donate up to 500 000 doses of an investigational Janssen vaccine regimen to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help combat the world's second worst outbreak of Ebola on record. In 2019, it also launched the Mosaico trial at approximately 55 clinical trial sites across North America, South America, and Europe to evaluate a mosaic‐based vaccine concept for HIV prevention.
The company culture of innovation is not just limited to scientific research and development either. After appearing on its list for more than three decades, Johnson & Johnson nabbed the #1 spot on Working Mother's 100 Best Companies List in 2019 for its vast variety of forward‐thinking family benefits, from generous parental leave for moms and dads to backup dependent care support.
Johnson & Johnson is always striving to help improve the trajectory of health for humanity—and the company is proud to be recognised for this work by being named a World's Most Admired Company.
2. 3M
2.1. 3M Canada's new president is returning to her career roots in London
Penny Wise has more than 20 years of international experience at 3M after starting at the Canadian head office in London, the company said in announcing her appointment Tuesday.
“I am so thrilled and proud to be returning to Canada,” Wise said in a release. “It's an exciting time to be rejoining 3M Canada and I look forward to working alongside the incredible team here.”
Wise holds an MBA from York University, with a specialisation in marketing. She also holds a Lean Black Belt in Six Sigma, the manufacturing, business, and management strategy.
Wise succeeds Lars Hanseid, who becomes 3M's vice‐president of corporate affairs for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and managing director of the company's north Europe region based in London, England.
Wise has held several senior leadership roles at the company, most recently in St Paul, Minnesota, leading 3M's largest business section as the global marketing director of the safety and industrial business group.
In 2015, as the marketing director, Wise launched a new global tagline for the company, “3M Science. Applied to Life.”
She's been responsible for several successful, award‐winning marketing transformation projects at the company, the release said.
3M Canada was established in 1951, one of the first international subsidiaries opened by 3M with head office and original manufacturing site in London.
About 800 of 3M Canada's 1900 employees work in London.
Worldwide, 3M has $30 billion in sales and 90 000 workers, the release said.
Int Wound J. 2020;17:530. 10.1111/iwj.13358