NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Dec. 15, 2010--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today assigned its 'A' senior unsecured debt rating to Dallas, Texas-based Kimberly-Clark Corp.'s planned $200 million dealer remarketable securities offering due Dec. 19, 2016. The remarketable securities originally were issued in December 2006 pursuant to Rule 144A, and we expect net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including the repayment of short-term commercial paper borrowings. The next remarketing date is Dec. 19, 2011. The company had approximately $5.4 billion of reported debt outstanding as of Sept. 30, 2010. For the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2010, lease and pension adjusted total debt to EBITDA was about 2x, and we expect the company to maintain leverage in
