Caring For Our Community's Needs For More Than 130 Years

Meet Julio Do Monte - Kenvue Area Managing Director South & Sub-Saharan Africa

For more than 130 years, Kenvue (formerly known as Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health) has aimed to keep people well at every age and every stage of life. Through our iconic brands – such as Benylin®, Neutrogena®, Listerine®, Johnson’s®, and Sinutan® - we combine the power of science with meaningful human insights and digital-first thinking to help more than one billion people take better care of themselves and their loved ones every day.

How Does Kenvue Live Up To Its Consumer & Customer Needs?

Prioritising the feedback and insights we get from consumers is key for us. it enables us to consistently deliver brands that offer quality, value, and trust. That is why we use different sources of insights - such as consumer immersions, market research, social media listening, and consumer care trends, to keep up to date with the latest trends and to truly understand what matters to our consumers.

On the customer side, our key account team and our shopper department work closely together with our key partners to understand evolving shopper behaviour and to add value by developing powerful category growth strategies.

We take every opportunity to prioritise creating products that are sustainable, have natural ingredients, and enhance product transparency so our consumers can make informed choices about personal health products. Moreover, we are reducing our environmental impact by using recycled materials in our packaging, making sure our packaging is easy to recycle or reuse, and powering our operations with renewable electricity.

We call this our Healthy Lives Mission – our ambition to advance human health while also protecting our planet which is backed by an investment of $800-million. In line with this, in South Africa, we are committed and have engaged in the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programme and work with designated Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs) to ensure that we do our part in creating a true circular economy for plastic packaging.

This year we celebrated a milestone with the completion of the PV solar installation at our manufacturing site in Cape Town, allowing us to continue to supply meaningful consumer products in a way that considers the health of the planet, while not sacrificing safety or quality of the products themselves.

Outside Serving Consumers and Customers, How is Kenvue Helping Communities?

We are committed to supporting the communities in which we live and work. since 2016 we have funded 23 Unjani Clinics - a nurse-led network of primary healthcare container clinics in the communities of South Africa. The non-profit company supports and empowers black women and professional nurses, to own and operate their own sustainable healthcare clinic, enabling them to become the first level of primary care for members of their community.

As part of our CSI initiative for 2022, our employees visited the Thomas Wildschutt Junior Primary school in Cape Town, to revamp their library and build a vegetable garden. The library will provide an opportunity for the kids to learn and discover the world through reading and a garden will provide daily meals and nutrition for the children.