Mead Johnson Nutrition

Mead Johnson Nutrition is a Chicago-based company that provides household and personal care products, focusing on developing, manufacturing, and distributing nutritional products for infants, children, and expectant and nursing mothers. The company was founded in 1905 by Edward Mead Sr. and operates in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.

Mead Johnson's products include infant formula for routine and special nutritional needs, vitamins, and supplements. The company’s flagship product is Enfamil baby formula. In 2009, global sales were $2.83 billion with two-thirds of revenue coming from outside the United States. In 2017, Mead Johnson Nutrition Company merged with Reckitt Benckiser Group and became a division of that group.

Mead Johnson provided funding for a new biomedical swine research unit at University of Illinois in 2014 to increase capability for research to understand how nutrition affects the brain development in human infants. Mead Johnson Nutrition partnered with MassGeneral Hospital for Children to participate in the National Microbiome Initiative, sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2016.

Mead Johnson China Business Group consists of Mead Johnson Nutritionals (China) Ltd., Mead Johnson Nutrition (Hong Kong) Limited, Mead Johnson Nutrition (Taiwan) Ltd., Mead Johnson B.V., Mead Johnson Pediatric Nutrition Institute (China) Ltd., Mead Johnson Pediatric Nutrition Technology (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd., Mead Johnson Nutrition International Holdings Pte. Ltd.

Mead Johnson China Business Group, which has production bases in Guangzhou and the Netherlands, became an independently operating company in September 2021. Mead Johnson portfolio in China includes Enfinitas; Enfamil; Enfagrow; Enfa Total Grow; EnfaGentleease and food for preterm, low birthweight babies and formulas for specific protein allergies. The company has established the Guangzhou Mead Johnson Charity Foundation to provide social impacts for underprivileged mothers and children with special needs.