$66.03
-0.76 (-1.14%)
Kimberly-Clark Corp (KMB)
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The Company is organized into operating segments based on product groupings. These operating segments have been aggregated into four reportable global business segments: Personal Care; Consumer Tissue; K-C Professional & Other; and Health Care.
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During a recession or inflationary period the products from Kimberly-Clark always will be needed, in spite of higher prices. Also, KC is a global company with almost half of it sales and profits coming from the Developed and Emerging markets of Latin America, Eastern Eurpe, Asia and Oceania which are growing at a double digit rate, not only in dollars but in volume, and market shares in most of the countries are #1 or #2 against other global and local competitors. Also, Europe is doing much better than in the past years after the reestructuring that took, place mainly in the toilet tissue business.