verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message kimberly clark corporation type public traded as nyse kmb s & p 500 component industry personal care founded neenah wisconsin u.s. 1872 ; 144 years ago 1872 founders john a. kimberly havilah babcock charles b. clark franklyn c. shattuck headquarters irving texas since 1985 key people thomas j. falk ceo chairman maria henry svp cfo products kleenex huggies kotex depend scott viva cottonelle andrex pull ups goodnites little swimmers poise neat sheet revenue 21.152 billion 2013 1 21.063 billion 2012 1 operating income 3.208 billion 2013 1 2.686 billion 2012 1 net income 2.142 billion 2013 1 1.75 billion 2012 1 total assets 18.919 billion 2013 2 19.873 billion 2012 1 total equity 5.14 billion 2013 2 5.287 billion 2012 1 number of employees 43 000 december 2014 website www.kimberly clark.com kimberly clark corporation is an american multinational personal care corporation that produces mostly paper based consumer products . 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 . based in irving texas since 1985 4 it has approximately 43 000 employees . kimberly clark uk holds royal warrants from queen elizabeth ii and from the prince of wales in the united kingdom . kimberly clark is also listed among the fortune 500 . subsidiaries under kimberly clark include kimberly clark health care and kimberly clark professional . 5 contents 1 history 2 governance 3 relationship with midwest airlines 4 environmental record 5 major u.s. consumer product lines 6 mexican consumer product lines 7 major professional and global products 7.1 kimwipes 7.2 drynites 8 see also 9 references 10 external links history edit this section possibly contains original research . please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . statements consisting only of original research should be removed . september 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message kimberly clark and co. was founded 144 years ago in 1872 by john a. kimberly havilah babcock charles b. clark and franklyn c. shattuck in neenah wisconsin with 42 000 of capital . 6 the group s first business was operating paper mills which the collective expanded throughout the following decades . the company developed cellu cotton in 1914 a cotton substitute used by the u.s. army as surgical cotton during world war i. army nurses used cellu cotton pads as disposable sanitary napkins 7 and six years later the company introduced kotex the first disposable feminine hygiene product . 8 kleenex a disposable handkerchief followed in 1924 . kimberly & clark joined with the new york times company in 1926 to build a newsprint mill in kapuskasing ontario canada . two years later the company went public as kimberly clark . 9 the firm expanded internationally during the 1950s opening plants in mexico west germany and the united kingdom . it began operations in 17 more foreign locations in the 1960s . citation needed the company formed midwest express airlines from its corporate flight department in 1984 . kimberly clark s headquarters moved from neenah wisconsin to irving texas the following year 10 although its products are still produced in neenah . under the leadership of darwin smith as ceo from 1971 to 1991 the company went from being a business paper company to a consumer paper products company . in 1991 kimberly clark and the new york times company sold their jointly owned paper mill in kapuskasing ontario . kimberly clark entered a joint venture with buenos aires based descartables argentinos s.a. to produce personal care products in argentina in 1994 11 and also bought the feminine hygiene unit of vp schickedanz germany for 123 million 12 and a 90 % stake in handan comfort and beauty group china . 13 kimberly clark bought scott paper in 1995 for 9.4 billion . 14 in 1997 kimberly clark sold its 50 % stake in canada s scott paper to forest products company kruger inc. 15 and bought diaper operations in spain and portugal 16 and disposable surgical masks maker tecnol medical products . 17 augmenting its presence in germany switzerland and austria in 1999 the company paid 365 million for the tissue business of swiss based attisholz holding . 18 adding to its offerings of medical products the company bought ballard medical products in 1999 for 774 million 19 and examination glove maker safeskin in 2000 for about 800 million . 20 also in 2000 the company bought virtually all of taiwan s s k corporation ; the move made kimberly clark one of the largest manufacturers of consumer packaged goods in taiwan . 21 the company later purchased taiwan scott paper corporation for about 40 million and merged the two companies forming kimberly clark taiwan . 22 in 2001 kimberly clark bought italian diaper maker linostar and announced it was closing four latin american manufacturing plants . 23 kimberly clark sub saharan africa s vision is ambitious nothing less than turning the 250 million business into a 1 billion business by 2015 . 24 in 2002 kimberly clark purchased paper packaging rival amcor s stake in an australian joint venture . 25 adding to its global consumer tissue business in 2003 kimberly clark acquired the polish tissue maker klucze . 26 in early 2004 chairman and chief executive officer thomas falk began implementation of the global business plan the company detailed in july 2003 . the firm combined its north american and european groups for personal care and consumer tissue under north atlantic groups and was working to ensure that asian latin american and eastern european markets were supplied specifically in the areas of value tiered diapers light end incontinence and health care products . governance edit current members of the board of directors of the kimberly clark corporation are john alm dennis beresford john bergstrom chairman of the largest auto dealer group in wisconsin . from neenah wisconsin . abelanrdo bru pastora caffeutrty robert decherd thomas j. falk claudio x. gonzalez mae jemison linda rice marc shapiro craig sullivan . 27 relationship with midwest airlines edit the origin of midwest airlines can be traced back to 1948 when the kimberly clark corporation opened its corporate flight department and began providing air transportation for company executives and engineers between the company s neenah wisconsin headquarters and company owned paper mills . in 1969 k c aviation was born from the company s air operations and was dedicated to the maintenance of corporate aircraft . in 1982 k c aviation initiated shuttle flights for kimberly clark employees between appleton memphis and atlanta . from these experiences and considering the airline deregulation act of 1978 kimberly clark and k c aviation decided to form a regularly scheduled passenger airline and out of the initiative midwest express airlines was started on june 11 1984 . 28 the name of the airline was shortened to midwest airlines in 2003 . environmental record edit the kimberly clark paper plant on the everett washington waterfront . in 2005 greenpeace launched the kleercut campaign against kimberly clark because the company had been linked to the logging of ancient boreal forests . the environmental organization charged that kimberly clark was using more than 3 million tons of pulp a year from forests to produce tissue paper products such as the kleenex brand . greenpeace led a large grassroots student activist campaign targeting kimberly clark for sourcing 22 % of its paper pulp from canadian boreal forests containing 200 year old trees . 29 30 greenpeace ended its campaign in august 2009 following the release of a new environmental policy by kimberly clark . the two organizations announced that they were moving away from conflict to a new collaborative relationship to further promote forest conservation responsible forest management and the use of recycled fiber for the manufacture of tissue products . 31 kimberly clark has a target to purchase 100 % of wood fiber from suppliers that gain independent sustainability certification with a preference for forest stewardship council certified fiber . kimberly clark stated that by the end of 2010 it had achieved 98 % of this target . 32 major u.s. consumer product lines edit cottonelle cottonelle hygienic paper . cottonelle is a brand name for bath products . product forms include premium bath tissue and flushable moist wipe products . depend depend is a brand name for incontinence products worn by adults . goodnites goodnites are absorbent disposable underwear manufactured by kimberly clark makers of huggies diapers and depend briefs made primarily for children and teens who still wet the bed at night . they can also be used for daytime protection . huggies huggies are disposable diapers for infants and toddlers . additional huggies brand products include huggies clean team products for toddlers such as shampoo hand soap wash mitten etc. little swimmers little swimmers is a brand of disposable swim diaper . kleenex kleenex is the brand name of facial tissue paper . many versions have been made including with lotion our softest ever and regular . in the 70s dr. cody sweet color psychologist was hired through dan edelman public relations to represent the newly styled and colored quadrant designed boxes of the product as national media spokesperson . kotex kotex is a feminine hygiene product line which includes panty liners sanitary napkins and tampons . pull ups pull ups is a brand name of training pants for toddlers marketed together with the huggies brand of baby products . scott main article scott paper company scott is a brand name of paper napkins paper towels and bath tissue wipes . viva viva is a brand name of heavy duty paper towels . mexican consumer product lines edit includes most of the american products and these products napkin brands kimberly clark distributes a variety of napkin brands kleenex petalo suavel delsey lys . toilet paper brands suavel toilet paper pack kimberly clark distributes a variety of toilet paper brands kleenex petalo suavel delsey vogue lys . kleenbebe a baby diaperbrand name similar to huggies . the brand is a combination of kleen kleenex and bebe spanish for baby . kimberly clark also has a variety of brands designed for professional markets and medical markets . major professional and global products edit kimwipes edit kimwipes are a type of cleaning tissue commonly used in laboratories . they are intended for applications where leaving lint or fibers on a surface would be undesirable such as slides and pipettes . they are sometimes used to clean lenses as well but use on optical lenses with special water and solvent based coatings may cause light blemishes and the manufacturer recommends using a wipe specifically designed for use with coated lenses . kimwipes are composed of virgin wood pulp from certified forests with little chemical additives . drynites edit drynites are a plainer unisex version of goodnites sold in europe and australasia . the sizing also differs from that of goodnites . see also edit kimberly crest toilet paper in the united states dallas fort worth portal companies portal wisconsin portal references edit a b c d e f g h kimberly clark corp 2013 annual report form 10 k xbrl . united states securities and exchange commission . february 14 2014 . a b kimberly clark corp 2014 q1 quarterly report form 10 q xbrl . united states securities and exchange commission . april 21 2014 . company profile for kimberly clark corp kmb . retrieved 2008 10 06 . form 4 . kimberly clark . retrieved on november 17 2012 . 351 phelps drive . irving texas 75038 kimberly clark health care . www.kchealthcare.com . retrieved 12 august 2013 . historical journey an interactive timeline . www.kimberly clark.com