Kimberly-Clark partners with its U.S. customers to make the
communities where Kimberly-Clark and their customers live and work
better, stronger places.
Kimberly-Clark and Kroger
In the spirit of giving back this holiday season,
Kimberly-Clark's Kroger business team in West Chester, Ohio, spent
the Tuesday before Thanksgiving volunteering at the Freestore Food
Bank in downtown Cincinnati. Some members of the team donated
their time to aid families in need by packing and bagging meals
while others delivered those meals to families nearby.
The team chose this service activity because it aligned with
Kimberly-Clark's mission to provide essentials for a better life
and our value of caring, but it also supported the community
betterment goals and values of an important customer. Kroger
is a valuable sponsor of the Cincinnati community, especially this
food bank, and appreciated Kimberly-Clark's partnership outside of
the business environment.
The partnership has been so successful that the teams plan to
make it an ongoing activity and expand to other local
organizations. For even greater effect, the Kimberly-Clark
Kroger business team designed T-shirts depicting Kimberly-Clark's
vision of Leading the world in essentials for a better life and
strategy of Creating a better a future. These will be worn at
all future service events.
Kroger, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the largest grocery
retailer in the U.S. and carries all of Kimberly-Clark's North
American Consumer Products brands.
Kimberly-Clark and Dollar
General
In an effort to increase breast cancer awareness and support an
important customer, the Kimberly-Clark sales office in Nashville,
Tennessee, partnered with Dollar General to support the Grand Ole
Opry's Opry Goes Pink event honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month
in October.
This is the third year of the event during which the backdrop of
the Grand Ole Opry's signature barn is turned pink for the evening.
Predominantly female artists, including Martina McBride,
performed in a special show, with all proceeds benefiting breast
cancer awareness and research.
At the event, Kimberly-Clark and Dollar General employees
presented a $10,000 contribution to the Opry's foundation, Women
Rock for the Cure, conducted breast cancer awareness sessions and
distributed free samples of Poise brand products.
Kimberly-Clark and Dollar General also partnered to sponsor the
local Brentwood, Tennessee, Susan G. Komen Foundation Race for the
Cure. Several team members from both companies walked and ran
in the event, and still more volunteered to work the event all day
and handed out more Poise brand product samples.
Goodlettsville, Tennessee-based Dollar General Corporation is
the nation's largest small-box discount retailer and is one of the
largest retailers of some of America's most trusted brands,
including Kimberly-Clark products.
