Kimberly-Clark: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Kimberly-Clark (NASDAQ: KMB) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Irving, Texas, United States that owns 13 consumer brands, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1][2]
Kimberly-Clark started as a Wisconsin paper mill in 1872 and invented much of the modern disposable hygiene category, from cellucotton wadding to facial tissue. It agreed to acquire Kenvue in 2025 in what would be one of the largest consumer-health deals on record.
What Kimberly-Clark's annual report says about its business
Read from Kimberly-Clark's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Segments the filing names
North America, International Personal Care: As a result of the IFP Transaction discussed above, the Company's continuing operations are now organized into two reportable segments defined by geographic region: North America ("NA") and International Personal Care ("IPC").
Acquisitions and disposals named in the filing
Acquired: Kenvue (November 2025), $7.7 billion. As a result of the pending Kenvue acquisition, in November 2025, the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (the "Bank") executed a certain bridge loan facility commitment letter, pursuant to which the Bank has committed to provide bridge financing (the "Bridge Facility") in an amount of $7.7 billion to the Company to fund the Cash Consideration, the fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement and to repay certain existing indebtedness of Kenvue and/or its subsidiaries.
Acquired: Thinx Inc. (2023), $95. During 2023, we acquired the remaining outstanding ownership interests in Thinx Inc. ("Thinx") for additional purchase consideration of $95.
Sold or exited: Neve tissue brand (2023). 2023 - The sale of our Neve tissue brand and related consumer and professional tissue assets in Brazil.
Sold or exited: IFP Business. As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 36,000 employees in our consolidated operations, including employees of our IFP Business reported as discontinued operations.
Sold or exited: PPE business (prior year), $651. This change is largely due to proceeds from asset and business dispositions of $651 in the prior year, primarily from the sale of our PPE business, and increased capital spending ($1.1 billion compared to $721 in the prior year).
Kimberly-Clark in numbers
Kimberly-Clark owns 13 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is personal care & beauty with 13 brands.[1]
1 of its brands originated outside United States.
Kimberly-Clark financial history
Headline figures from Kimberly-Clark's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025.
Revenue moved from $19.1bn to $16.4bn, an average of -3.0% a year (calculated).
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Who owns the shares of Kimberly-Clark
Holders of more than 5% of the voting shares, as listed in Kimberly-Clark's proxy statement filed 23 March 2026. Shareholdings change daily; this is the position the filing reports.
Holder
Shares
Share of class
The Vanguard Group Inc.
40,426,736
12.2%
BlackRock, Inc.
25,127,582
7.6%
State Street Corporation
18,321,389
5.4%
Everything Kimberly-Clark owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Kimberly-Clark agreed to acquire Kenvue for $3.50 in cash plus 0.14625 Kimberly-Clark shares for each Kenvue share, which would combine Huggies and Kleenex with Tylenol, Listerine and Neutrogena. Kimberly-Clark expects to issue about 280 million shares and pay about $6.7 billion in cash, leaving its existing shareholders with about 54 per cent of the combined company.
Kimberly-Clark in the global legal-entity registry
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