Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is a pharmaceuticals health care company. It has 72,000 employees and operates in over 130 countries. The company headquarters are in Abbott Park, North Chicago, Illinois. The company was founded by Chicago physician, Dr. Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888. In 2008, Abbott had over $29 billion in revenue.

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Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is a global American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500.

Johnson & Johnson’s brands include numerous household names of medications and first aid supplies. Among its well-known consumer products are the Band-Aid Brand line of bandages, Tylenol medications, Johnson’s baby products, Neutrogena skin and beauty products, Clean & Clear facial wash and Acuvue contact lenses.

Johnson & Johnson is a highly diversified company with at least 230 subsidiaries, which it refers to as the “Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies”. Some of these subsidiaries include as follows:

• ALZA Corporation
• ANIMAS Corporation
• BabyCenter, L.L.C.
• Biosense Webster, Inc.
• Centocor Ortho Biotech, Inc.
• Children With Diabetes, Inc.
• Cilag
• Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.
• Cordis Corporation
• Crucell nv
• DePuy, Inc.
• Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
• Ethicon, Inc.
• Global Pharmaceutical Supply Group (GPSG)
• Gynecare
• HealthMedia
• Independence Technology, LLC
• Information Technology Services
• Janssen Pharmaceutica
• Janssen Pharmaceutica Products, L.P.
• Johnson & Johnson, Group of Consumer Companies, Inc.
• Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.
• Johnson & Johnson – Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Co.
• Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C.
• Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Services, L.L.C.
• LifeScan, Inc.
• McNeil Consumer Healthcare
• McNeil Nutritionals
• Noramco, Inc.
• OraPharma
• Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. OCD
• Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical
• Ortho-Neutrogena (a merge of Neutrogena and Ortho Dermatological)
• Personal Products Company
• Penaten
• Pharmaceutical Group Strategic Marketing (PGSM)
• Peninsula Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• PriCara, Inc.
• Scios Inc.
• Tasmanian Alkaloids
• Therakos, Inc.
• Tibotec
• Transform Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Veridex, LLC
• Vistakon

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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) is a federation of 39 separate health insurance organizations and companies in the United States. Combined, they directly or indirectly provide health insurance to over 100 million Americans. The history of Blue Cross dates back to 1929, while the history of Blue Shield dates to 1939. The Blue Cross Association dates back to 1960, while its Blue Shield counterpart was actually created in 1948. The two organizations merged in 1982, forming the current association. The company has its headquarters in the Michigan Plaza complex in the Chicago Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.

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