Thursday, October 4, 2012

Johnson & Johnson Opens New $63.5 Million Distribution Hub in Europe, Will Employ 115


Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Opens New $63.5 Million Distribution Hub in Europe; Will Employ 115 People

Janssen has opened a new distribution center in Belgium this week, creating a major new European hub for the firm. The European distribution center centralizes the activities of 15 logistics centers, enabling medicines from the different European production sites to be shipped directly to a single site. Tom Heyman, chief executive of Janssen Pharmaceutical, said: “The European distribution center in La Louvière will enable us to more efficiently deliver medicines that respond to the real needs of patients. Thanks to the new structure, some of the logistical burden and administrative costs that hospitals are faced with will also disappear.

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