![]() ![]() The Consolidated Fruit Jar Company, located on Water Street, was the most famous of our early suppliers. Consolidated Fruit Jar Company ad from The Bulletin of Pharmacy, Vol. That proximity - and no doubt those conversations with the Johnson brothers - led to some early Johnson & Johnson packaging innovations: jars for our sterile surgical dressings, the shaker tops for JOHNSON’S® Baby Powder in 1894 and collapsible metal tubes that allowed Johnson & Johnson to be one of the first companies to put toothpaste in a tube in 1889. ![]() ![]() Those early suppliers were in the same area of the city as we were – close to the Raritan River - which made it very convenient for Company President and founder Robert Wood Johnson, and probably engineer and co-founder James Wood Johnson, to walk down the street and talk with them. Johnson & Johnson buildings and the Raritan River, from our archives. That long list of businesses included three companies that became very important early suppliers of packaging to Johnson & Johnson. New Brunswick in the late 1800s was home to many industries that made a huge variety of products from shoes to cigar boxes to hosiery to strings for musical instruments to linoleum. It had transportation (the railroad, the Delaware & Raritan Canal, the Raritan River, and stagecoach service), it had lots of potential future employees, and it was just bursting with suppliers. The former wallpaper factory building that Johnson rented met the needs of the new company, and New Brunswick turned out to be a very good location for a new business for many other reasons. Johnson & Johnson has been located in New Brunswick, New Jersey ever since a fortunate train journey brought Company founder James Wood Johnson to the city in January of 1886. ![]()
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