Kimberly-Clark is a leading global health and hygiene company with about 53,000 full-and part-time employees worldwide. We provide products that improve health and hygiene at home, such as diapers, feminine pads and facial tissue, as well as away-from-home products such as washroom essentials, and healthcare items such as surgical gowns, gloves, masks and medical devices. Our brands are some of the most trusted and recognized in the world and include Kleenex, Scott, Andrex, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Poise, Depend, WypAll and Kimberly-Clark.

K-C is organized into four global business segments that manufacture and market our products around the world: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, K-C Professional & Other and Health Care. We have operations in 36 countries and sell our products in more than 150. Our Personal Care and Consumer Tissue branded products are sold directly, and through wholesalers, to supermarkets, mass merchandisers, drugstores, warehouse clubs, variety and department stores and other retail outlets. Our healthcare, away-from-home and do-it-yourself products are sold through distributors and directly to manufacturing, lodging, office buildings, food service, healthcare establishments and high-volume public facilities. In 2007, K-C achieved net sales of $18.3 billion, a 9 percent increase over 2006.

For more than 135 years, we have followed the simple yet insightful principles of our founders – quality, service and fair dealing. They have helped establish K-C as a leading global producer of superior health and hygiene products used by families and professionals around the world.