Kimberly-Clark leans on newer, higher-end diapers and personal care products to keep growing even as fewer babies are born in many markets. But tougher competition and a shift toward more price-transparent online and club stores could make it harder to raise prices and protect profits.Read more
Kimberly-Clark looks set to push more shoppers toward its higher-end diapers, tissues, and hygiene products, helped by new product upgrades and fast-growing online and club-store channels. The big question is whether this shift can keep lifting profits even as birth rates soften and cheaper store brands and imports fight harder for share.Read more
Kimberly-Clark leans on well-known everyday hygiene brands and a push into higher-end products to keep growing even as shoppers get more careful. The key question is whether innovation and cost savings can lift profits faster than competition and weaker demand can drag them down.Read more
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Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets personal care products in the United States. It operates in two segments, North America and International Personal Care. The North America segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins, wipers, tissue, towels, soaps and sanitizers, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Goodnites, Kotex, Poise, Depend, Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Wypall , and other brand names. Its International Personal Care segment provides baby and child care, adult care and feminine care, including disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, reusable underwear, and other related products under the Huggies, Kotex, Goodfeel, Intimus, Depend, and other brand names. The company sells its household use products directly to supermarkets, mass merchandisers, drugstores, warehouse clubs, variety and department stores, and other retail outlets, as well as through other distributors and e-commerce. It also sells its professional use products through distributors, directly to manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and high-volume public facilities, and through e-commerce. Kimberly-Clark Corporation was founded in 1872 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
