Kimberly-Clark Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark is a 138-year-old international corporation that manufactures products for healthcare, personal, professional and industrial hygiene.

About 56,000 employees provide an opportunity for 1.3 billion people in 150 countries to use K-C products daily in a wide variety of situations and conditions. The company's brands - such as Huggies®, Kleenex®, Kotex®, Pull-Ups®, Scott® and Depend® - allow K-C to hold first and second positions in more than 80 countries. The corporation's sales in 2009 amounted to more than $19 billion. Kimberly-Clark has been operating in Russia since 1996, and in 2010 the company began production of Huggies diapers in Stupino near Moscow.

2025: $48.7 billion purchase of Kenvue from Johnson & Johnson

Kimberly-Clark Corp. reached an agreement to buy Kenvue Inc., from Johnson & Johnson, valuing the manufacturer of consumer medical products at $48.7 billion, including debt. This is stated in a joint press release in November 2025. Kimberly-Clark will pay Kenvue shareholders $3.50 in cash and about 0.15 of its own shares for the company's paper. Thus, the proposal estimates the value of the Kenvue share at $21.01. Kimberly-Clark shareholders will own about 54% of the combined company, Kenvue shareholders - 46%. The combined revenue of the two companies is about $32 billion per year. Read more here