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2007 SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY
Our 2007 performance included a number of key successes:
BUSINESS &
WORKPLACE
ASPECTS
SOCIAL ASPECTS
ENVIRONMENTAL
ASPECTS
• Integrated Pfizer Consumer Healthcare in the Consumer Group of Companies, generating new
platforms for growth.
• Created new compliance officers in our three business segments and a central Corporate Compliance
Committee.
• Launched a corporate blog, JNJ BTW (By The Way) to engage more directly with customers,
employees and other stakeholders.
• Achieved a tobacco-free environment at 98 percent of our worldwide workplaces.
• Enrolled our entire R&D community in LINK, a knowledge management system that enables rapid
collaboration across the entire company, linking researchers to expertise they might not have been
able to identify previously.
• Expanded our current pathways for the anonymous reporting of ethical concerns to include a new,
confidential website.
• Signed a royalty-free license agreement with Africa’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer to register,
package and distribute our HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drug PREZISTA™ in Sub-Saharan Africa at a price
that will not exceed US$3 per day – the lowest price in the world.
• Launched the ACCESS2WELLNESS™ website, a single entry point into available U.S. assistance programs
to help the uninsured gain access to the prescriptions they need.
• Implemented a retail pharmacy card through our Patient Assistance Foundation to speed access and
enhance continuity of care in the United States.
• Marked the fifth year of our Campaign for Nursing’s Future™ that works to alleviate the nursing
shortage in the United States. Over the life of the campaign, enrollment in nursing programs has
increased 57 percent.
• Reduced our facility carbon dioxide emissions by 12.7 percent on an absolute basis when compared to a
1990 baseline.
• Opened two more solar power installations, bringing to 10 the number of such installations in our U.S.
Family of Companies.
• Reduced our hazardous waste by four percent and our non-hazardous waste by six percent in the past two years.
• Increased by 18 percent in 18 months, the amount of product shipped by rail instead of truck in the
U.S. and Canada.
• Decreased our water consumption six percent in the past two years.
Throughout this report, we discuss challenges that
will create our future opportunities, including:
BUSINESS &
WORKPLACE
ASPECTS
SOCIAL ASPECTS
ENVIRONMENTAL
ASPECTS
• Ameliorating the risks that counterfeit products pose to our patients and consumers.
• Sustaining the productivity of research and development.
• Protecting our intellectual property rights around the world.
• Balancing affordable healthcare with the costs incurred to bring new products to market.
• Raising the bar for how our sales and marketing representatives interact with health care professionals.
• Improving the efficiency of our patient assistance programs to balance patient interests,
health care provider needs and compliance.
• Reversing the decrease in nursing school faculty, students and professionals.
• Extending our standards for ethical behavior, product quality and social responsibility
to our external manufacturers.
• Assessing the risks of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment.
• Continuing to reduce our environmental impacts when the most apparent and cost efficient
improvements have already been made.
• Supporting stronger public policy for more responsible management of energy and the impacts
of climate change.
2 JOHNSON & JOHNSON 2007 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT