NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Dec. 19, 2012--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today its ratings on Dallas-based Kimberly-Clark Corp. (including the 'A' long-term and 'A-1' short-term corporate credit ratings, and the 'A' senior unsecured debt rating on the company's $200 million dealer remarketable securities offering due Dec. 19, 2016) remain unchanged following the remarketing of these securities. The remarketable securities were originally issued in December 2006 pursuant to Rule 144A, and Kimberly-Clark will not receive proceeds from the remarketing. These securities will bear an interest rate of 4.215% until Dec. 19, 2013, the next remarketing date. For the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2012, the ratio of lease- and pension-adjusted total debt to EBITDA was about 1.9x, and we
