A world leader in paediatric nutrition, Mead Johnson has grown from the ideas of one man into a global company with more than 70 products in over 50 countries. Long before he established his company in 1905, Edward Mead Johnson, Sr., was deeply concerned about infant nutrition as a result of the special feeding needs of his own son. E. Mead knew that nutrition was critical for babies that did not have access to breast milk or could not tolerate homemade feedings.