Organization Optimization Initiative

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Organization Optimization Initiative

In June 2009, we announced actions to reduce our worldwide salaried workforce by approximately 1,600 positions by the end of 2009. These actions resulted in pretax charges of $128 million in 2009 ($91 million after tax).

Costs of these actions were recorded at the business segment and corporate levels as follows:



	Year Ended December 31, 2009
	(Millions of dollars)
Personal Care	$	47
Consumer Tissue	50
K-C Professional & Other	16
Health Care	6
Corporate & Other	9
Total	$	128

On a geographic area basis, $84 million of the charges were recorded in North America, $35 million in Europe, and $9 million in our international operations in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.

The charges were included in the following income statement captions:



	Year Ended December 31, 2009
	(Millions of dollars)
Cost of products sold	$	44
Marketing, research and general expenses	84
Provision for income taxes	(37		)
Net charges	$	91