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Business Segments
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Business Segments
NOTE 19. Business Segments
3M’s businesses are organized, managed and internally grouped into segments based on differences in markets, products, technologies and services. 3M manages its operations in three business segments: Safety and Industrial; Transportation and Electronics; and Consumer. 3M’s three business segments bring together common or related 3M technologies, enhancing the development of innovative products and services and providing for efficient sharing of business resources. On April 1, 2024, 3M completed the previously announced separation of its Health Care business as a separate public company, Solventum (see Note 2 for additional information). 3M is an integrated enterprise characterized by substantial intersegment cooperation, cost allocations and inventory transfers. Therefore, management does not represent that these segments, if operated independently, would report the operating income information shown.
3M discloses business segment operating income (loss) as its measure of segment profit/loss, reconciled to both total 3M operating income (loss) and income before taxes. Business segment operating income (loss) excludes certain expenses and income that are not allocated to business segments (as described below in “Corporate and Unallocated and Other”).
3M made certain changes to the composition of segment information reviewed by 3M's chief operating decision maker (CODM) effective in the second quarter of 2024 largely as a result of the separation of Solventum and changes within its business segments effective in the first quarter of 2024. Accordingly, information provided herein reflects the impact of these changes for all applicable periods presented.
Effective in the second quarter of 2024, this change included the following:
Elimination of former Health Care business segment
•The former Health Care business segment was eliminated in the second quarter of 2024 in connection with the separation of Solventum and reflection of its historical net income and applicable assets and liabilities included in the Separation as discontinued operations within 3M's financial statements.
Addition of ‘Other’ and update to ‘Corporate and Unallocated’
•3M added the “Other” category of information as a result of the Separation. It principally reflects activity associated with:
◦Transition arrangement agreements (e.g. fees charged by 3M, net of underlying costs) related to divested businesses, including those related to the Separation, as well as other applicable divestitures.
◦Operations of businesses of the former Health Care segment divested prior to the Separation and therefore not reflected as discontinued operations within 3M's financial statements, along with limited-duration supply agreements with those previous divestitures.
•Activity included in 3M’s existing “Corporate and Unallocated” was updated primarily to additionally reflect:
◦Removal of costs related to separating and divesting Solventum that were eligible to be part of discontinued operations.
◦Commercial activity with Solventum post-Separation and certain operations of the former Health Care business segment retained by 3M.
◦Costs previously allocated to Solventum prior to the Separation that were not eligible to be part of discontinued operations other than those beginning in the first quarter of 2024 included in “Other” associated with transition arrangement activity for which 3M began to charge fees in April 2024.
In addition, effective in the first quarter of 2024, 3M made certain changes within its business segments as described below. While they impacted the composition of certain divisions within business segments, they did not change the overall composition of segments or the measure of segment operating performance used by 3M’s CODM.
Creation of Industrial Specialties division (within Safety and Industrial business segment) and Commercial Branding and Transportation division (within Transportation and Electronics business segment)
•3M created the Industrial Specialties division within the Safety and Industrial business segment, which consists of the former Closure and Masking Systems division along with certain products formerly within the Industrial Adhesive and Tapes division and the Personal Safety division. Further, 3M created the Commercial Branding and Transportation division within the Transportation and Electronics business segment, which consists of the former Commercial Solutions division and the Transportation Safety division.
Re-alignment of divisions within Consumer business segment
•Within the Consumer business segment, the business re-aligned to the following four divisions: Consumer Safety and Well-Being, Home and Auto Care, Home Improvement, and Packaging and Expression.
Business Segment Information
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Net Sales (Millions)
2024202320242023
Safety and Industrial$2,759 $2,765 $5,491 $5,544 
Transportation and Electronics2,143 2,191 4,247 4,241 
Consumer1,263 1,293 2,403 2,485 
Corporate and Unallocated86 22 112 45 
Other
4 12 18 23 
Total Company$6,255 $6,283 $12,271 $12,338 
Operating Performance (Millions) - income (loss)
Safety and Industrial$612 $534 $1,269 $1,135 
Transportation and Electronics428 410 909 704 
Consumer219 235 435 414 
Corporate and Unallocated
Corporate special items:
Net costs for significant litigation(8)(10,357)(71)(10,439)
Divestiture costs (14)(1)(20)(4)
Russia exit (charges) benefits— 18 — 18 
Total corporate special items(22)(10,340)(91)(10,425)
Other corporate (expense) income - net
(2)(207)(73)(339)
Total Corporate and Unallocated(24)(10,547)(164)(10,764)
Other
37 10 (28)19 
Total Company operating income (loss)1,272 (9,358)2,421 (8,492)
Other expense/(income), net(138)72 82 128 
Income (loss) before income taxes$1,410 $(9,430)$2,339 $(8,620)
Corporate and Unallocated and Other: Outside of 3M's operating segments, 3M has Corporate and Unallocated and Other which are not reportable business segments as they do not meet the segment reporting criteria. Because Corporate and Unallocated and Other includes a variety of miscellaneous items, it is subject to fluctuation on a quarterly and annual basis.
•Corporate and Unallocated operating income (loss) includes “corporate special items” and “other corporate expense-net”.
◦Corporate special items include net costs for significant litigation impacting operating income (loss) associated with PFAS-related other environmental and Combat Arms Earplugs matters. In addition, during the voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy period (which began in July 2022 and ended in June 2023—see Note 17), costs associated with the Aearo portion of respirator mask/asbestos matters were also included in corporate special items. Prior to the bankruptcy, costs associated with Combat Arms Earplugs matters were not included in the Corporate net costs for significant litigation special item, instead being reflected in the Safety and Industrial business segment. Corporate special items for the periods presented also include divestiture costs and Russia exit costs/ benefits. Divestiture costs include costs that were not eligible to be part of discontinued operations related to separating and divesting substantially an entire business segment of 3M following public announcement of its intended divestiture.
◦Other corporate expense-net includes certain enterprise and governance activities resulting in unallocated corporate costs and other activity and net costs that 3M may choose not to allocate directly to its business segments. Other corporate expense-net also includes costs previously allocated to Solventum prior to the Separation that were not eligible to be part of discontinued operations, commercial activity with Solventum post-Separation, and certain operations of the former Health Care business segment retained by 3M.
•Other principally reflects activity associated with:
◦Operations of businesses of the former Health Care segment divested prior to the Separation and therefore not reflected as discontinued operations within 3M's financial statements, along with limited-duration supply agreements with those previous divestitures.
◦Transition arrangement agreements (e.g. fees charged by 3M, net of underlying costs) related to divested businesses, including those related to the Separation, as well as other applicable divestitures.