(Fortune) -- Kimberly-Clark (Charts) ranks no. 425 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $15.9 billion in revenues, up 3.3% from the previous year. The Irving, Texas-based company was ranked no. 394 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $1.6 billion, down 12.9% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.

It took $13.7 billion in revenue just to make this year's list - up from $12.4 billion last year. And profits for the 500 companies jumped 30%. Total revenues for the Global 500 in 2006 add up to $18.9 trillion, a third of the world's GDP.

In the Household and Personal Products industry, profits were down 29.3% from the previous year. The world's biggest companies in the sector are: Procter & Gamble (Charts), ranked no. 81 on the Global 500 with $56.7 billion in revenues; L'Oréal, ranked no. 359 on the Global 500 with $18.1 billion in revenues; and Henkel KGaA (Charts), ranked no. 456 on the Global 500 with $14.9 billion in revenues.

The Global 500 list is an annual ranking of the world's largest corporations by revenues.

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