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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-056662"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KMB"
cik: "0000055785"
company_name: "KIMBERLY CLARK CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T23:10:55.263308+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kimberly-Clark to sell 51% of IFP business to Suzano for ~$1.7B

## Summary
- IFP contributed ~$3.3B net sales in 2024; 22 plants, ~9,000 employees, 70+ countries.
- KMB retains 49% stake; Suzano gets call option on remaining stake under agreed framework.
- Deal expected to close mid-2026; first-full-year diluted EPS by $0.30–0.40.
- KMB expects to return net cash proceeds to shareholders via share repurchases.
- Sharpen focus on higher-growth personal care and North America tissue categories.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-056662
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KMB
- cik: 0000055785
- company_name: KIMBERLY CLARK CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000110465925056662/0001104659-25-056662-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000110465925056662/tm2517036d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-056662.txt

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