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      "text": "Kimberly-Clark Corporation is a consumer products company founded in 1872. It makes personal-care, tissue and professional-use products using fiber, nonwovens and absorbency technologies. Its product categories include baby and child care, adult care, feminine care, family care and professional products; its brands include Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle and Depend. The company states its purpose as “Better Care for a Better World.” [P119568929]\n\nKimberly-Clark sells products in more than 175 countries and territories and has manufacturing facilities in 30 countries, including equity affiliates. Its continuing operations reported $16.4 billion in net sales in 2025. The company’s careers site describes a workforce of approximately 38,000 people. [P119568929][P121792799][T9114712][https://careers.kimberly-clark.com/en/jobs/885473/vice-president-financial-planning-analysis-dallas-world-headquarters]\n[P119568929][P121792799][T9114712][https://careers.kimberly-clark.com/en/jobs/885473/vice-president-financial-planning-analysis-dallas-world-headquarters]",
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      "text": "Kimberly-Clark’s baby and child-care products include Huggies diapers and wipes, Pull-Ups training pants and Goodnites nighttime underwear. Its feminine-care range includes Kotex pads, liners and tampons, while Depend absorbent underwear and Poise bladder-leak pads and liners serve adult incontinence needs. Baby and Child Care was its largest product category in 2025, accounting for about 41% of net sales; Adult Care and Feminine Care accounted for about 12% and 10%, respectively. [https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/baby-and-child-care][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/feminine-care][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/adult-care][T8072257]\n\nIts family-care products include Kleenex facial tissue, Scott bathroom tissue and paper towels, Cottonelle bathroom tissue and flushable wipes, and Viva paper towels. Family Care contributed about 25% of 2025 net sales. Kimberly-Clark also sells products for workplaces and other facilities, including WypAll task-specific wipers, Kimtech cleanroom gloves and wipes, KleenGuard protective apparel, and dispensers for towels, tissue and soap. Its professional offerings include the Onvation smart-restroom management system. Professional products represented about 11% of 2025 net sales. [https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/family-care][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/kc-professional][https://www.kcprofessional.com/en-us/products/dispensers][https://www.kcprofessional.com/en-us/solutions/onvation-smart-restroom-management-system][T8072257]\n[T8072257][T8072257][T8072257][T8072257][T8072257][T8072257][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/baby-and-child-care][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/feminine-care][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/adult-care][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/family-care][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/brands/kc-professional][https://www.kcprofessional.com/en-us/products/dispensers][https://www.kcprofessional.com/en-us/solutions/onvation-smart-restroom-management-system]",
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      "text": "Kimberly-Clark sells its brands in more than 175 countries and territories. Its International Personal Care business serves markets across Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while its North America business serves consumer and professional channels. In 2025, North America generated $10.753 billion of segment sales, or about 65% of total net sales, and International Personal Care generated $5.694 billion, or about 35%. These segment figures are not a U.S.-versus-rest-of-world split: the company states that about half of its net sales came from markets outside the United States. [P119568929][P115228583][P20420121][T5982645][P26015411]\n\nKimberly-Clark reported 74 principal production facilities in 30 countries: 27 in North America and 47 outside North America. This count includes facilities associated with a business reported as discontinued operations. At the end of 2025, about 35% of its approximately 36,000 employees were in North America; the remainder worked across approximately 55 countries outside North America. The employee total likewise includes the discontinued business. Its principal executive offices are in the Dallas–Irving, Texas, area. [P21580902][T7809767][P47420994][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000162828026007567/0001628280-26-007567-index-headers.html]\n[P119568929][P115228583][P20420121][T5982645][T5982645][T5982645][P26015411][P21580902][T7809767][T7809767][T7809767][P47420994][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000162828026007567/0001628280-26-007567-index-headers.html]",
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      "text": "Kimberly-Clark reports two segments in continuing operations: North America and International Personal Care. In 2025, North America generated about 65% of segment net sales ($10.75 billion), while International Personal Care generated about 35% ($5.69 billion).[P64651709][T5982645]\n\nNorth America spans consumer and professional products, including diapers and baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care, facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, workplace wipers, soaps and sanitizers. International Personal Care focuses on baby and child care, adult care and feminine care outside North America, including diapers, wipes and incontinence products.[P20420121][P79341380]\n\nThe former International Family Care and Professional business is reported as discontinued operations rather than as a continuing segment; certain retained activities are included in the two remaining segments.[P86313129][P64651709]\n[P64651709][T5982645][T5982645][P20420121][P79341380][P86313129]",
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      "text": "Kimberly-Clark was founded in 1872 in Neenah, Wisconsin, by John A. Kimberly, Havilah Babcock, Charles B. Clark and Franklyn C. Shattuck. Its development of Cellucotton, a cellulose-based absorbent material, helped lead to the introduction of Kotex feminine-care products in 1920. Kleenex debuted in 1924, initially as a product for removing cold cream. [https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kimberly-clark-celebrates-150-years-of-purpose-led-innovation-301656308.html][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/-/media/kimberly/pdf/innovation/ProductEvol_FacialTissue_umbracoFile.pdf][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/company/innovation]\n\nThe company launched Huggies disposable diapers in 1978, extending its consumer-products business into baby care. It acquired Scott Paper in 1995, substantially expanding its tissue business, and spun off its health-care business as Halyard Health in 2014. [https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/factbox-major-disposable-diaper-introductions-idUSN25174393/][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/0000950134-95-003392.txt][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000119312514397382/d815290dex992.htm]\n[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kimberly-clark-celebrates-150-years-of-purpose-led-innovation-301656308.html][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/-/media/kimberly/pdf/innovation/ProductEvol_FacialTissue_umbracoFile.pdf][https://www.kimberly-clark.com/en-us/company/innovation][https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/factbox-major-disposable-diaper-introductions-idUSN25174393/][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/0000950134-95-003392.txt][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000119312514397382/d815290dex992.htm]",
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