The Scott Paper Company is a USA

United States

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-based corporation

Corporation

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 which manufactures mostly paper based consumer products.

Scott Paper was founded in 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

Toilet paper

Toilet paper is a soft paper product used to maintain personal hygiene after human defecation or urination. However, it can also be used for other purposes such as blowing one's nose when one has a cold or absorbing common spills around the house, although paper towels are more used for the latter...

 sold on a roll. They began marketing paper towels in 1907, and paper napkins in the 1930s.

In 1995 Scott Paper merged with Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include "Kleenex" facial tissue, "Kotex" feminine hygiene products, "Cottonelle", Scott and Andrex toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, "KimWipes"...

 which continues to use the Scott brandname. Scott Paper Limited

Scott Paper Limited

Kruger Products Limited, formerly Scott Paper Limited, is Canada's leading manufacturer and distributor of towel and tissue products for consumer, in-home, use and for commercial, away-from-home, use. Formerly a majority-owned subsidiary of Scott Paper Company, it was acquired by Kruger Inc...

, formerly a Canadian subsidiary, is no longer affiliated.

Following the merger with Kimberly-Clark, the Baby Fresh brand was sold to Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

 and is now sold under the Pampers

Pampers

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 brand, as well as Scotties

Scotties

Scotties is a facial tissue brand originally owned by the Scott Paper Company, created in 1955. It is noted for its emphasis on softness.Kimberly-Clark, owner of the rival Kleenex brand, acquired Scott Paper in 1997. For competitive reasons, Kimberly-Clark was required to resell the Scotties...

, which was sold to Irving Tissue

Irving Tissue

Irving Tissue is a tissue products producing company, owned by J.D. Irving Limited. It has manufacturing locations in both Canada and the United States....

. Other divested brands include Cut-Rite (sold to Reynolds Metals

Reynolds Metals

Reynolds Group Holdings is an American packaging company with its roots in the Reynolds Metals Company, was the second largest aluminum company in the United States, and the third largest in the world...

 in 1986, now part of Alcoa

Alcoa

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