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...Products ranging from Clorox bleach to Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies nappies and Nestlé hot chocolate are now being tailored to Hispanic tastes using knowledge the companies have gleaned in Mexico and elsewhere...
...Not only is she a Hispanic-American mother, she is also a senior brand manager for multicultural strategy at Huggies, the nappy brand owned by Kimberly-Clark....
...Kimberly Greenberger, analyst at Morgan Stanley, noted that unlike other retailers, “macro[economic] weakness and hurricane Sandy had seemingly no impact on the quarter”....
...Kimberly Ross, chief financial officer, said: “Due to the potential need for cash in the US, we were no longer able to continue to assert that the earnings would continue to be reinvested abroad.”...
...Other multinationals with Venezuelan operations include the oil groups Chevron, Repsol, Statoil and Eni, consumer goods groups Kimberly-Clark, Kraft and Diageo, and Cargill, the commodities trader....
...Kimberly-Clark reported global sales up 0.2 per cent to $5.3bn and a 22 per cent rise in net income to $498m....
...Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies nappies and Kleenex tissues, posted a sharp rise in quarterly profits thanks to big cost cuts and a modest increase in sales....
...Kimberly-Clark shares fell 1.7 per cent to $72.27 in New York in a flat market....
...Ms Brewer, who will take up the new post on February 1, joined Walmart more than five years ago from Kimberly-Clark, the consumer goods maker....
...Thomas Falk, chief executive of Kimberly-Clark, which makes Huggies and Kleenex tissues, told analysts last week that currency moves were likely to dent the company’s earnings this quarter just as the negative...
...Kimberly-Clark shares were trading down 1.5 per cent at $66.88 at midday in New York....
...This week Kimberly-Clark, which was named by Mr Icahn as a potential buyer, ruled out making a bid....
...Kimberly-Clark’s shares were down 3 per cent at $64.01 in early afternoon trading in New York....
...Other potential buyers including Reckitt Benckiser, Kimberly-Clark and Henkel have other priorities and are also focused on emerging markets, while SC Johnson, a private company, could struggle with financing...
...Kimberly-Clark said this week that sales in its US personal care division, which includes Huggies nappies, were down 2 per cent in the past quarter, while sales were flat in consumer tissues, which includes...
...Mr Icahn named other potential buyers as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive, Reckitt Benckiser, Kimberly-Clark and Henkel....
...A spokesman for Barney Frank - the Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the financial services committee, was one of the main architects of the housing bill, and last week held his own a hearing on loan modifications...
...As for specific stocks, Smith Barney says that consumer goods groups such as Procter Gamble and Kimberly-Clark could surprise investors by upping their dividend payments....
...Kimberly Brown, director at LFL, says collectors can relate to the work. “They feel something of a connection to what the artists portray and how they see themselves in their own lives....
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