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Description of Business Segments | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Business Segment Information | Business Segment Information We are organized into operating segments based on product groupings. These operating segments have been aggregated into three reportable global business segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue and KCP. The reportable segments were determined in accordance with how our chief operating decision maker and our executive managers develop and execute global strategies to drive growth and profitability. These strategies include global plans for branding and product positioning, technology, research and development programs, cost reductions including supply chain management, and capacity and capital investments for each of these businesses. Segment management is evaluated on several factors, including operating profit. Segment operating profit excludes other (income) and expense, net and income and expense not associated with the business segments. The principal sources of revenue in each global business segment are described below:
• | Personal Care brands offer our consumers a trusted partner in caring for themselves and their families by delivering confidence, protection and discretion through a wide variety of innovative solutions and products such as disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products. Products in this segment are sold under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, DryNites, Kotex, U by Kotex, Intimus, Depend, Plenitud, Poise and other brand names.
• | Consumer Tissue offers a wide variety of innovative solutions and trusted brands that touch and improve people's lives every day. Products in this segment include facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins and related products, and are sold under the Kleenex, Scott, Cottonelle, Viva, Andrex, Scottex, Neve and other brand names.
• | K-C Professional partners with businesses to create Exceptional Workplaces, helping to make them healthier, safer and more productive through a range of solutions and supporting products such as wipers, tissue, towels, apparel, soaps and sanitizers. Our brands, including Kleenex, Scott, WypAll, Kimtech and Jackson Safety, are well-known for quality and trusted to help people around the world work better.
Net sales to Walmart Inc. as a percent of our consolidated net sales were approximately 14 percent in 2017, 2016 and 2015. Information concerning consolidated operations by business segment is presented in the following tables: Consolidated Operations by Business Segment
| Year Ended December 31
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
NET SALES(a) |  |  |  |  |
Personal Care | $ | 9,078 |  |  | $ | 9,046 |  |  | $ | 9,204 |
Consumer Tissue | 5,932 |  |  | 5,967 |  |  | 6,121 |
K-C Professional | 3,208 |  |  | 3,150 |  |  | 3,219 |
Corporate & Other | 41 |  |  | 39 |  |  | 47 |
TOTAL NET SALES | $ | 18,259 |  |  | $ | 18,202 |  |  | $ | 18,591 |
OPERATING PROFIT(b) |
Personal Care | $ | 1,907 |  |  | $ | 1,857 |  |  | $ | 1,885 |
Consumer Tissue | 1,034 |  |  | 1,117 |  |  | 1,073 |
K-C Professional | 633 |  |  | 603 |  |  | 590 |
Corporate & Other(c) | (248 | ) |  | (252 | ) |  | (367 | )
Other (income) and expense, net(d) | 27 |  |  | 8 |  |  | 1,568 |
TOTAL OPERATING PROFIT | $ | 3,299 |  |  | $ | 3,317 |  |  | $ | 1,613 |
(a) | Net sales in the U.S. to third parties totaled $8,698, $8,874 and $8,819 in 2017, 2016 and 2015, respectively. No other individual country's net sales exceeds 10 percent of total net sales.
(b) | Segment operating profit excludes other (income) and expense, net and income and expenses not associated with the business segments.
(c) | Corporate & Other includes charges related to the 2014 Organization Restructuring of $38 and $63 in 2016 and 2015, respectively, and $5 related to the remeasurement of the Venezuelan balance sheet in 2015. Corporate & Other also includes charges of $23 for restructuring in Turkey in 2015.
(d) | Other (income) and expense, net for 2017 includes a charge of $24 for the early redemption of debt, 2016 and 2015 includes income of $11 and a charge of $108, respectively, related to the deconsolidation of our Venezuelan operations, and 2015 includes charges of $40 related to the remeasurement of the Venezuelan balance sheet. In addition, 2015 includes $1,358 for charges related to pension settlements.
| Personal Care |  | Consumer Tissue |  | K-C Professional |  | Corporate & Other |  | Total
Depreciation and Amortization |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
2017 | $ | 324 |  |  | $ | 283 |  |  | $ | 112 |  |  | $ | 5 |  |  | $ | 724 |
2016 | 305 |  |  | 280 |  |  | 116 |  |  | 4 |  |  | 705 |
2015 | 340 |  |  | 282 |  |  | 121 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 746 |
Capital Spending |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
2017 | 405 |  |  | 281 |  |  | 92 |  |  | 7 |  |  | 785 |
2016 | 421 |  |  | 250 |  |  | 95 |  |  | 5 |  |  | 771 |
2015 | 590 |  |  | 344 |  |  | 116 |  |  | 6 |  |  | 1,056 |
Goodwill(a) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
2017 | 617 |  |  | 559 |  |  | 400 |  |  | — |  |  | 1,576 |
2016 | 549 |  |  | 538 |  |  | 393 |  |  | — |  |  | 1,480 |
2015 | 533 |  |  | 524 |  |  | 389 |  |  | — |  |  | 1,446 |
Assets |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
2017 | 6,592 |  |  | 5,007 |  |  | 2,255 |  |  | 1,297 |  |  | 15,151 |
2016 | 6,141 |  |  | 4,761 |  |  | 2,151 |  |  | 1,549 |  |  | 14,602 |
2015 | 6,330 |  |  | 5,050 |  |  | 2,264 |  |  | 1,198 |  |  | 14,842 |
(a) | In 2017, we acquired the remaining 50 percent of our joint venture in India, which resulted in the recognition of $35 of personal care goodwill. All other changes in goodwill are related to currency.
Sales of Principal Products
(Billions of dollars) |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Consumer tissue products |  | $ | 5.9 |  |  | $ | 6.0 |  |  | $ | 6.1 |
Baby and child care products |  | 6.3 |  |  | 6.4 |  |  | 6.6 |
Away-from-home professional products |  | 3.2 |  |  | 3.1 |  |  | 3.2 |
All other |  | 2.9 |  |  | 2.7 |  |  | 2.7 |
Consolidated |  | $ | 18.3 |  |  | $ | 18.2 |  |  | $ | 18.6 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8595-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8924-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68060357&loc=d3e8906-108599 + Details
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