Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Company typePublic
ISINUS4943681035
IndustryConsumer goods
Manufacturing
Personal care
Founded1872; 152 years ago (1872), in Neenah, Wisconsin, U.S.
Founders
HeadquartersIrving, Texas, U.S. (since 1985)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
RevenueIncrease US$20.43 billion (2023)
Decrease US$2.344 billion (2023)
Decrease US$1.764 billion (2023)
Total assetsDecrease US$17.34 billion (2023)
Total equityIncrease US$1.068 billion (2023)
Number of employees
c. 41,000 (2023)
Websitewww.kimberly-clark.com
Footnotes / references
[1]
Camelia Populär - sanitary napkin around 1942 from military stocks for nurses

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American multinational consumer goods and personal care corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. The company manufactures sanitary paper products and surgical & medical instruments. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include Kleenex facial tissue, Kotex feminine hygiene products, Cottonelle, Scott and Andrex toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, KimWipes scientific cleaning wipes and Huggies disposable diapers and baby wipes.

Founded in Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1872 and based in the Las Colinas section of Irving, Texas, since 1985, the company operated its own paper mills around the world for decades, but closed the last of those in 2012.[2][3] With recent annual revenues topping $18 billion per year, Kimberly-Clark is regularly listed among the Fortune 500. As of March 2020, the company had approximately 40,000 employees.[4]

  1. ^ "Kimberly-Clark 2023 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. February 8, 2024.
  2. ^ "It's the end of an era at Kimberly-Clark as last pulp mill closes". Dallas News. January 29, 2012.
  3. ^ "Form 4 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine." Kimberly-Clark. Retrieved on November 17, 2012. "351 PHELPS DRIVE. IRVING, Texas 75038"
  4. ^ "Kimberly-Clark". Fortune. Archived from the original on November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 21, 2018.