J&J Names Bayer’s Peterson Chairman for Consumer Business
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Johnson & Johnson named Sandra E. Peterson, the chief of Bayer AG’s crop-chemical unit, to oversee J&J’s troubled consumer businesses as Chief Executive Officer Alex Gorsky’s first major hire.
Peterson, 52, will also head its information technology and global supply chain operations, the New Brunswick, New Jersey-based company said in a statement today. The consumer group has been plagued by quality control issues in its over-the-counter drug lines, including the recall of hundreds of millions of packets of Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl and other products.