James Cornelius Business Quotations

This agreement with Johnson & Johnson provides significant financial value and certainty for shareholders. Together with Johnson & Johnson, we will have the resources to continue to build upon the existing Guidant businesses in our pursuit of meaningful innovations to address cardiovascular disease.

It appropriately reflects the business challenges we have experienced in this period,

This investment represents an extraordinary opportunity to position Guidant for leadership in the $3 billion global business for (cardiac rhythm management) devices, which we believe will be driven both demographically and technologically to increase significantly over the next few years,