Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. is a business-to-business communications company founded in 1905. Originally, the company was established to serve the transportation construction industry, and the publication Roads & Bridges, started in 1906, continues to be published today. Currently, 20 regular publications are produced by Scranton Gillette. These cover building and construction, healthcare, horticulture, the

water industry The water industry provides drinking water and wastewater services (including sewage treatment) to residential, commercial, and industrial sectors of the economy. Typically public utilities operate water supply networks. The water industry doe ...

, infrastructure (e.g. roads and bridges), home furnishings and music. Ed Gillette is the current CEO of Scranton Gillette Communications, Inc. He is the great-grandson of the company's founder,

Halbert Powers Gillette Halbert Powers Gillette (1869–1958) was an American engineer and prolific author of textbooks and handbooks for the engineering and construction fields. Biography Born on August 5, 1869, in Waverly, Iowa, to Theodore Weld and Laetitia S. ( ...

, who was named as one of the “Top 100 Private Sector Transportation Construction Professionals of the 20th Century” by the ARTBA Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF).

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