Essity, a leading global hygiene and health company, with its North American headquarters located in Philadelphia, PA, will help feed thousands across North America during the holidays in the United States. The company will be making meal donations totaling nearly 3,500 meals on behalf of their employees in each of the U.S. markets where it operates. This includes its Fox Cities locations in Appleton, Neenah, and Menasha, where they will donate to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin.
Essity, which employs approximately 3,700 employees in North America, operates in more than a dozen locations. The company manufactures and sells the leading global Tork® brand of professional hygiene products, personal care and incontinence products under the TENA® brand; and medical solutions—such as orthopedic, compression and wound care products—from world-renowned brands such as JOBST, Actimove, Leukoplast and more.
“During this season of giving, we are proud to provide meals for those who need it most for the fifth consecutive year,” said Nicholas Ruof, Site Manager at Essity’s facility in Neenah. “Essity is grateful to be connected with Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, which distributes these holiday meals right here in the communities where our employees live and work.”
Essity is partnering with the following charitable organizations to distribute holiday meals to community members in their local regions:
· Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, WI: Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin
· Barton, AL: Meal Barrel Project/Food Bank of North Alabama
· Bordentown, NJ: Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK)
· Bowling Green, KY: First Christian Church
· Charlotte, NC: Charlotte Rescue Mission
· Drummondville, QB: La Tablee Populaire
· Harrodsburg-Danville, KY: Mercer County Elementary Family Resource
· Hidalgo, TX: Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley
· Manchester, CT: House of Bread
· Middletown, OH: Hope House Mission
· Oakville, ON: Toronto’s Daily Bread
· Philadelphia, PA: Operation Turkey
· Tulsa, OK: Irongate Soup Kitchen
About Essity
Essity is a global, leading hygiene and health company. Every day, our products, solutions and services are used by a billion people around the world. Our purpose is to break barriers to well-being for the benefit of consumers, patients, caregivers, customers and society. Sales are conducted in approximately 150 countries under the leading global brands TENA and Tork, and other strong brands such as Actimove, Cutimed, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic and Zewa. In 2024, Essity had net sales of approximately $14B and employed 36,000 people. The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Essity has approximately 760 employees in the Fox Cities, including more than 640 between its Menasha mill and Neenah converting facility, and nearly 120 at its Service Excellence Center in Appleton. In addition to Wisconsin, Essity has U.S. operations in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. Learn more at essityusa.com and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.