Mexico City, October 19th, 2006

Due to the resolution adopted by the Extraordinary Shareholder’s Meeting held on September 28th., 2006, regarding the divestiture of the Writing and Printing Papers and notebooks businesses and in accordance with the guidelines established in the Mexican Financial Information Norms, the financial statements being presented include the operations of the Consumer Products (PROCON) Business, showing the divested business as a separate line called “Discontinued Operations” and finally the total Net Income for the entire corporation.

The Consumer Products business continued to show a positive trend, regarding sales growth and Operating Profit, which initiated several years ago when a strategy was established to participate more actively in all market segments.

Sales volume this quarter was almost 7 percent higher than the same period of last year, driven mainly by growths in units sold of disposable diapers and bath tissue. Sales growth in these product categories has been sustained in the last years and this has translated into having the plants operate at higher utilization rates thus attaining higher efficiencies and productivity. This growth has given rise to the need to increase the installed capacity for these products, for which a capital expenditure program in excess of $350 million dollars has been announced for the next three years.
 
Pressures on costs continue and we continue to be affected by increases in the main inputs, particularly those associated with natural gas and oil, energy and pulp. Nevertheless and due to the incremental volumes with which the corporation has operated and the results from the continuous cost savings programs that have been implemented in all areas, an Operating Profit growth higher than Net Sales growth was achieved. The Operating Profit margin was close to 29 percent, almost 1 percent higher than the previous year.

During the third quarter of the year, we were no longer impacted by the effects of the of the appreciation of the exchange rate on a long position in financial derivative instruments, reason for which the integral financing cost was substantially lower than the prior year and enabled Net Income to grow above the Operating Profit growth.

The quality of the corporation’s earnings is reflected in its strong financial position.

As of September 30, 2006, we ended with $2,303 million pesos of cash after having made investments of $1,116 million pesos (fixed assets or CAPEX of $742 million and own stock re-purchases of $374 million) and having paid out dividends of $2,709 million pesos in the last twelve months.

Under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (USGAAP), results for the quarter for the total Company, in millions of U.S. dollars, were as follows: Net Sales of $550, 10 percent higher than the prior year; Operating Profit of $143, 8 percent more than the previous year; and, Net Income of $86, 32 percent above last year.

(1) Prepared in accordance with Mexican financial information standards and expressed in millions of pesos as of September 30th, 2006 purchasing power.

Kimberly-Clark de México manufactures, markets and distributes consumer, personal care and paper based products.

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