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'', ''Baby Fresh'', ''Scottex'' and ''Viva''. Consolidated sales of its consumer and commercial products totalled approximately $3.6 billion in 1994. The company was acquired by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation in 1995.

History

Scott Paper was founded in 1879 in

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by brothers E. Irvin Scott and Clarence Scott, and is often credited as being the first to market

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sold on a roll. They began marketing

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in 1907, and paper tissues in the 1930s. In 1927, Scott purchased a Nova Scotian

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, and thus began a long series of acquisitions. It joined with The Mead Corporation in 1936 to form Brunswick Pulp & Paper Company, which used their pulp mill in

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to supply both Mead and Scott. The company then bought mills in

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and

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, and during the 1950s Scott merged with Soundview Pulp Company and Hollingsworth & Whitney Company, which provided timberlands and mills in Washington,

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, and

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. Scott enjoyed success throughout the 20th century due to their advertising methods, which can be traced back to Arthur Scott, the son of E. Irvin Scott. Scott's hard-sell magazine advertisements of the 1930s focused on warnings that using harsh toilet paper would lead to painful rectal trouble. Another famous example of 1936 asked "Is your washroom breeding

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?", suggesting that cheap toilet paper might turn employees to Communism. In December 1994, Scott sold its printing and publishing papers business, consisting of its wholly owned subsidiary, S.D. Warren, for approximately $1.6 billion.

Merger with Kimberly-Clark

In 1995, Scott Paper merged with

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, The new company used the name Kimberly-Clark and maintained the Scott Paper product names. Scott Paper Limited, its

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, was sold and became Kruger Inc. As part of the sale of the company, the ''Baby Fresh'' baby wipes brand was sold to

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and is now sold under the Pampers brand. The '' Scotties'' facial tissue brand in the United States was sold to Irving Tissue. Other divested brands include ''Cut-Rite'', a brand of waxed paper, which was sold to

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in 1986.

Headquarters

The headquarters of the company for many years was located at International Plaza (known then as Scott Plaza) in Tinicum Township, Delaware County,

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, in

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References

External links

Kimberly Clark's Scott Products website
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History

Merger with Kimberly-Clark

Headquarters

See also

References

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