Kimberly-Clark Announces Schedule For Third Quarter Earnings Release And Related Conference Call DALLAS, October 18, 2002—Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) announced today that it will issue a news release regarding its third quarter 2002 results before the market opens on October 22, 2002. A conference call to discuss the earnings release and other matters of interest to stockholders and analysts will be held at 9 a.m. CDT on Tuesday, October 22.

The conference call will be simultaneously broadcast over the World Wide Web. Stockholders and others are invited to listen to the broadcast of the conference call. A link to the broadcast will be provided through the Investors section of Kimberly-Clark’s website at (www.kimberly-clark.com). Following the conclusion of the broadcast, the conference call will also be available for playback for a period of approximately one month through the link provided on Kimberly-Clark’s Web site.

Kimberly-Clark will continue to post the date of future quarterly earnings releases and related conference calls on its Web site shortly after the completion of each quarter. Interested stockholders and others should monitor Kimberly-Clark’s Web site for these announcements.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is a leading consumer products company. Its global tissue, personal care and health care brands include Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Depend, Kleenex, Scott, Kimberly-Clark, Safeskin, Tecnol, Kimwipes and WypAll. Other brands well known outside the U.S. include Andrex, Scottex, Page, Popee, and Kimbies. Kimberly-Clark also is a major producer of premium business, correspondence and technical papers. The company has manufacturing operations in 42 countries and sells its products in more than 150 countries.