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Description Of Business Segments | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
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 K-C Professional. 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 ongoing operations of the business segments, including the costs of corporate decisions related to the 2018 Global Restructuring Program described in Note 2. 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.
Information concerning consolidated operations by business segment is presented in the following tables:
|  | Three Months Ended March 31 |  |
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | Change
NET SALES |  |  |  |  |  |
Personal Care |  | $ | 2,307 |  |  | $ | 2,250 |  |  | +3 | %
Consumer Tissue |  | 1,579 |  |  | 1,455 |  |  | +9 | %
K-C Professional |  | 832 |  |  | 789 |  |  | +5 | %
Corporate & Other |  | 13 |  |  | 10 |  |  | N.M. |
TOTAL NET SALES |  | $ | 4,731 |  |  | $ | 4,504 |  |  | +5 | %
OPERATING PROFIT |  |  |  |  |  |
Personal Care |  | $ | 470 |  |  | $ | 487 |  |  | -3 | %
Consumer Tissue |  | 249 |  |  | 280 |  |  | -11 | %
K-C Professional |  | 158 |  |  | 149 |  |  | +6 | %
Corporate & Other(a) |  | (632 | ) |  | (63 | ) |  | N.M. |
Other (income) and expense, net(a) |  | (2 | ) |  | 5 |  |  | N.M. |
TOTAL OPERATING PROFIT |  | $ | 247 |  |  | $ | 848 |  |  | -71 | %
N.M. - Not Meaningful
(a) | Corporate & Other and Other (income) and expense, net include income and expense not associated with the business segments, including charges related to the 2018 Global Restructuring Program. The first quarter 2018 restructuring charges related to the business segments were $314 in personal care, $141 in consumer tissue and $95 in K-C Professional.

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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 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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