Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Kimberly-Clark Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, November 7th, 2008
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) reported that net sales in the third quarter of 2008 advanced 8.2 percent to $5.0 billion. Sales were higher in all four of the company's business segments, highlighted by continued strong performance in Personal Care and K-C Professional & Other and double-digit sales growth in developing and emerging markets. Organic sales growth totaled almost 6 percent, driven by improvements in net selling prices and product mix of about 4 percent and 2 percent, respectively, while sales volumes declined less than 1 percent. Changes in currency exchange rates benefited sales by less than 3 percent.
Diluted net income per share in the third...
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