Our company received the following awards and recognition in 2008:

• Ranked first in the personal products category of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for the fourth successive year.
• GovernanceMetrics International ranked K-C in the top one percent among nearly 4,200 companies surveyed in its most recent rating. The top-ranking companies were recognized for best-in-class corporate governance standards.
• K-C China received the Most Admired Corporate Citizen award from the China Corporate Citizenship Committee.
• The Korean Management Consulting Association named Yuhan-Kimberly one of the most admired companies in Korea for five years running.
• Yuhan-Kimberly has been recognized for its excellent ethical management in the Korean Business Ethics Index 2008 conducted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Institute for Industry Policy and Study.

Environmental stewardship

• Received an Environmental Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay Transportation Partnership for the second consecutive year, for our leadership in conserving energy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
• Shortlisted for the Best Overall Environmental Performance award at the U.K. Green Business Awards 2008.
• Shortlisted for the Tetra Pak Award for Environmental Sustainability as part of the 2008 IGD Food Industry Awards.
• Shortlisted for the Grocer Gold Award for Green Supplier of the Year.
• Woolworths South Africa, winner of Responsible Retailer 2008 at the World Retail Awards, gave K-C South Africa its Eco-Efficiency Award.
• The Climate Counts Company Scorecard ranks K-C as a best Climate Counts choice in the Household Products sector. We improved 17 points from last year, tying for second place.
• K-C Australia’s tissue manufacturing was accredited under the international Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification as promoting sustainable forest management. Eighty percent of all wood fiber in KCA tissue products is sourced from forests accredited under the PEFC scheme.
• Yuhan-Kimberly received the 2008 environment-friendly award in the infant care and feminine care category from the Environment Media.

Business awards

• K-C Colombia received the top prize in this year’s Logyca Award for Strategy Innovation and Value Chain Management. The award recognizes strategic thinking and leadership and promotes the implementation of best practices across supply chains.
• K-C’s Beech Island mill has been awarded the 2008 Large Business of the Year in Aiken County, South Carolina.
• Nonwovens Industry magazine named K-C Nonwovens third among the 40 top international nonwovens companies.
• Ranked fifth in The Patent Board’s Consumer Products Patent Scorecard. The Scorecard reviews all patent activity in the consumer products industry to assess patent value and ranks companies worldwide in 17 industry sectors.

Product recognition

• K-C Australia received a Packaging Evolution Award for the most innovative packaging waste management solution. This is the second year running that KCA has been recognized at these awards.
• Kimberly-Clark Health Care’s Integuseal Microbial Sealant received a 2008 Medical Design Excellence Award. Integuseal sealant helps stop bacteria from entering surgical wounds in the skin.
• The Scott brand Dichos campaign won PROMO Magazine’s PRO AWARD for best multi-cultural/ethnic campaign.
• Pharmacy Times named Depend absorbent undergarments number 1 in the incontinence product category in their Annual Over-the-Counter Recommendations Survey. The brand also became part of the Master’s Circle, an elite club for products that have earned at least 50 percent of pharmacists’ recommendations.
• Italian consumers voted Scottex Cartaspugna towels Product of the Year in the Marketing e Innovazione Italiana awards for the second year in a row.
• Kimberly-Clark Professional’s new Kimtech Science bench top protector was selected as an Editor’s Pick in Controlled Environments Magazine.
• Kimberly-Clark Professional JRT Electronic Coreless bath tissue dispenser was selected as a Top Product Pick by the editors of Buildings magazine. Only 100 products are selected each year, based upon aesthetics, ease of use, durability, efficiency, universal appeal, and sustainability.
• K-C Professional won the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation in the U.S. protective gloves market for outstanding innovation in our Kimtech G3 Gloves and Kleenguard G10 Grey Gloves.
• Baby Soft Aloe Vera and Huggies Dry Comfort products both won South African Product of the Year awards in 2008 from Product of the Year South Africa after a survey of 5,000 consumers from around South Africa.

Community involvement

• United Way of America presented K-C with its United Way Summit Award for Community Investment, recognizing our outstanding commitment to United Way and communities across the country.
• The United Way of Metropolitan Dallas awarded K-C with its Spirit of Caring Award .
• The Dallas Can! Academy awarded K-C a Lifetime Achievement Award for supporting the Can Academies. The organization provides child development training and special services to teenage mothers to ensure they complete their high school education.

Employment

• K-C Australia was recognized by the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency as an Employer of Choice for Women.
• The National Safety Council’s Springfield, Missouri, chapter awarded the ergonomics team at our Conway mill in Arkansas a Safety Team Excellence Award. Conway has significantly reduced the number of ergonomic injuries experience by its team members from 19 in 2004 to none in 2008.
• K-C’s plant in Barton, U.K. received an award for looking after employees’ health. It is the first business in North Lincolnshire to be recognized by the Healthy Workplace Award Scheme.
• K-C Australia has become the first company in South Australia to pass the WorkCover audit with zero non-conformances. The company’s self-insured status was renewed for another three years as a result.
• The Global Nonwovens mill in Lexington, North Carolina, received a Gold Award from the state’s Department of Labor. It is the 11th consecutive year the mill has been recognized.
• Two K-C facilities recently received Wisconsin Corporate Safety Awards from the Wisconsin Safety Council. The Neenah Nonwovens and Marinette facilities were honored for their exemplary safety records and excellence in health and safety management.
• All our Latin American companies were recognized by the Great Places to Work Institute. Ecuador was the no. 1 place to work in the country for the third year in a row and no. 3 in Latin America for the 2nd year in a row. Peru was no. 7 in the country and no. 8 in Latin America. Colombia was no. 5 in the country, Central America and the Caribbean was no. 7 in the region, Brazil was no. 11 in the country, Chile was no. 18 in the country and Argentina was no. 10 in the country.
• Recruitment website Incruit named Yuhan-Kimberly the fourth best workplace in Korea for its family-friendly and lifelong learning culture.
• Our HingYing and ChungLi mills received Five Star Safety and Hygiene Awards from the Taiwanese government.
• Yuhan-Kimberly received an ‘AA’ rating in the Best Family Friendly Management for its achievement of work-life balance presented by the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs.
• Yuhan-Kimberly was recognized as the best company in ‘Family-friendly Workplace’ by UNICEF Korea and the Ministry of Gender Equality for its well-established family-friendly environment and as a role model of promoting country’s birth rate.
• K-C’s legal department for Europe, the Middle East and Africa has been nominated for “Legal Department of the Year” in the British Legal Awards hosted by Legal Week magazine, a leading U.K. publication.

Recognition from customers

• K-C received the 2008 Partnership Award, which is given to the vendor in the United States that demonstrates a true supply chain partnership with Owens & Minor and their mutual customers.
• K-C received two Partner, Recognition, Innovation, Dependability and Excellence (PRIDE) awards from retailer Dollar General: Customer Marketing Vendor of the Year and Supply Chain Vendor of the Year. K-C was the only manufacturer out of 400 to win multiple Vendor of the Year awards.
• Target named K-C Vendor of the Year Award for Paper for the second time in three years.
• Wal-Mart named K-C 2007 Supplier of the Year for its infant/toddler department for the second consecutive year.
• Wal-Mart in Canada named K-C Vendor of the Year for paper products in 2007.
• Wal-Mart International awarded K-C its most Improved Supplier for 2007.
• Fisher Safety named the K-C Professional scientific and technical team supplier of the year. The team has won this award four times in five years. The team also won awards for best field sales support and best national account support.
• VWR International presented two awards to the K-C Professional scientific and technical team for supplier of the Year: private label for Production and Safety and Special Achievement for Marketing and Program Support.
• U.K. retailer Waitrose gave K-C the Best Non-Food All Rounder award at their 2008 Supplier Conference.
• Disney recently awarded K-C Australia its Licensee Award for Best Comprehensive Marketing Program.
• Supermarket News recently awarded K-C its Gold Medal in the Paper Goods category, for providing retail customers insights to help them improve their businesses.
• RFID Revolution presented the 2008 RFID Excellence in Business award to K-C for excellence in a Radio-Frequency Identification Pilot. K-C ran a pilot project in partnership with PINC Solutions and Motorola. The pilot broke new ground by combining radio-frequency identification (RFID) with data from other technologies, such as global positioning systems and wireless internet.
• The K-C team that supports Wal-Mart in Central America won the retailer’s Consumer Goods Supplier of the Year Award for the second consecutive year.
• The Premier Health Care Alliance’s Purchasing Partners division gave K C Health Care its 2008 Performance Award. This recognizes our efforts to meet or exceed service expectations.
• Yuhan-Kimberly obtained certification from CCMS (Consumer Complaints Management System), the consumer protection program, presented by the Fair Trade Commission.

Print this page