Kimberly-Clark, Dallas, TX, recently reported first quarter results and its seventh consecutive quarter of double digit growth. Sales amounted to $3.4 billion, an 8.4% increase compared to last year's $3.1 billion for the same quarter. First quarter earnings equaled $470 million, a 25.5% jump Longines Master Collection Mens Watch versus 1999's $374.6 million.

K-C's sales would have increased Replica Chloe Handbags Fake Handbags approximately 10% if the revenues of the company's pulp and timberlands operations in the southeastern U.S. and pulp operations--which were sold or closed in 1999--were excluded. The company attributed its record first quarter performance to solid improvement in sales volume in its core businesses--tissue, personal care and healthcare--and continued cost savings.

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