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<p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Note
4.    Organization Optimization
Initiative</b></font></p>
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<font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">In June 2009,
the Corporation announced actions to reduce its worldwide salaried
workforce by approximately 1,600 positions by the end of 2009.
These actions resulted in pretax charges of $128 million in
2009, of which $102 million has been paid and the majority of
the balance recorded in accrued expenses is expected to be paid in
the first quarter of 2010.</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 4%">
<font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Costs of these
actions are recorded at the business segment and corporate levels
as follows:</font></p>
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<td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="center" colspan="2"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="1"><b>Year Ended<br />
December 31, 2009</b></font></td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" colspan="2"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="1"><b>(Millions of dollars)</b></font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Personal Care</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">$</font></td>
<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">47</font></td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">50</font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">K-C Professional &
Other</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">16</font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Health Care</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">6</font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Corporate &
Other</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">9</font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Total</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">128</font></td>
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<font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">On a geographic
area basis, $84 million of the charges were recorded in North
America, $35 million in Europe, and $9 million in the
Corporation’s international operations in Asia, Latin
America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 4%">
<font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">The net charges
are included in the following income statement captions:</font></p>
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<td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid" valign="bottom" align="center" colspan="2"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="1"><b>Year Ended</b></font><br />
<font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="1"><b>December 31, 2009</b></font></td>
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<td valign="bottom" align="center" colspan="2"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="1"><b>(Millions of dollars)</b></font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Cost of products sold</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">$</font></td>
<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">44</font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Marketing, research and general expenses</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2"> </font></td>
<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">84</font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 3em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Total Charges</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">128</font></td>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; TEXT-INDENT: -1em"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">Provision for income
taxes</font></p>
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<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">(37</font></td>
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<td valign="bottom"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">$</font></td>
<td valign="bottom" align="right"><font style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman" size="2">91</font></td>
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Note
4.    Organization Optimization
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