PHILADELPHIA (Nov, 24 2025)— 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. and Canada markets where it operates. This includes its Barton facility, where they will donate to Meal Barrell Project and the Food Bank of North Alabama.
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.
“Essity is grateful to support the Meal Barrel Project and the Food Bank of North Alabama, which helps families right here in the communities where our employees live and work,” said Steve Edwards, site manager at Essity Barton. “We are proud to serve our community and its members in need not just during the season of giving, but every day of the year.”
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 employs more than 550 Shoals-area residents in the Cherokee region. Its papermaking and converting facility in Barton manufactures Essity’s Tork® brand toilet paper, napkins and paper towels. In addition to Alabama, Essity has U.S. operations in Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin. Learn more at?essityusa.com and connect with us on?Facebook,?LinkedIn and Instagram.
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