{{Short description|Defunct company, now part of Kimberly-Clark}} {{For|the episode of ''The Office''|Michael Scott Paper Company}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox company | name = Scott Paper Company | logo = Logo_of_Scott_Paper_Company.jpg | caption = | fate = Acquired by Kimberly-Clark | successor = | foundation = {{start date and age|1879}}, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | defunct = | location = | type = | industry = Personal care | key_people = | products = Toilet paper, paper towels | num_employees = | parent = Kimberly-Clark | subsid = }} '''The Scott Paper Company''' was a manufacturer and marketer of sanitary tissue products with operations in 22 countries. Its products were sold under a variety of well-known brand names, including ''Scott Tissue'', ''Cottonelle'', ''Baby Fresh'', ''Scottex'' and ''Viva''. Consolidated sales of its consumer and commercial products totalled approximately $3.6 billion in 1994.<ref name="SEC19951108">{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/0000950134-95-002721.txt |title=Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933 |author=EDGAR - Company Filings |work=Business of Scott |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=1995-11-08 |access-date=2014-11-07 }}</ref>
The company was acquired by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation in 1995.<ref>{{cite news |last=Collins |first=Glenn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/18/business/kimberly-clark-to-buy-scott-paper-challenging-p-g.html?smid=pl-share |title=Kimberly-Clark to Buy Scott Paper, Challenging P.& G. |work=The New York Times |date=1995-07-18 |access-date=2014-11-06 }}</ref>
==History== [[File:Scott Paper Company.jpg|thumb|Scott Paper Company Plant in Chester, Pennsylvania]] thumbnail|right|1915 newspaper ad for the toilet paper made by the company. Scott Paper was founded in 1879 in Philadelphia by brothers E. Irvin Scott and Clarence Scott, and is often credited as being the first to market toilet paper sold on a roll. They began marketing paper towels in 1907, and paper tissues in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottbrand.ca/aboutus |title=About Us |work=Scott Products |publisher=Kimberly-Clark |access-date=2014-11-06 }}</ref>
In 1927, Scott purchased a Nova Scotian pulp mill, 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 Georgia to supply both Mead and Scott. The company then bought mills in New York and Wisconsin, and during the 1950s Scott merged with Soundview Pulp Company and Hollingsworth & Whitney Company, which provided timberlands and mills in Washington, Alabama, and Maine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/scott-paper-company-history/ |title=History of Scott Paper Company – FundingUniverse |publisher=Fundinguniverse.com |access-date=2018-08-11}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cross |first1=Mary |title=A Century of American Icons: 100 Products and Slogans from the 20th-Century Consumer Culture |date=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0313314810 |access-date=4 September 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/centuryofamerica00cros/page/90/ |pages=90–91}}</ref> Another famous example of 1936 asked "Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?", suggesting that cheap toilet paper might turn employees to Communism.<ref>{{cite book |last=Carroll |first=Michael Thomas |date=2000 |title=Popular Modernity in America: Experience, Technology, Mythohistory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emo5v31oPBAC&pg=PA100 |publisher=State University of New York Press |page=100 |isbn=978-0791447147}}</ref>
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.<ref name=SEC19951108/>
==Merger with Kimberly-Clark== In 1995, Scott Paper merged with Kimberly-Clark,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-13-fi-13466-story.html|title=Kimberly-Clark Completes $9.4-Billion Purchase of Scott Paper: Firm likely to cut jobs, take hefty charge and sell several units|website=Los Angeles Times |date=13 December 1995 }}</ref> The new company used the name Kimberly-Clark and maintained the Scott Paper product names. Scott Paper Limited, its subsidiary in Canada, was sold and became Kruger Inc. As part of the sale of the company, the ''Baby Fresh'' baby wipes brand was sold to Procter & Gamble and is now sold under the Pampers brand.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bloomberg Business News |date=1996-05-24 |title=P.& G. to Acquire a Baby Products Unit of Scott |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/24/business/p-g-to-acquire-a-baby-products-unit-of-scott.html?smid=pl-share |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2014-11-06}}</ref> The ''Scotties'' facial tissue brand in the United States was sold to Irving Tissue.<ref>{{cite news |date=1996-06-05 |title=Company News: Kimberly-Clark Moves to Satisfy Antitrust Concerns |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/05/business/company-news-kimberly-clark-moves-to-satisfy-antitrust-concerns.html?smid=pl-share |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2014-11-06}}</ref> Other divested brands include ''Cut-Rite'', a brand of waxed paper, which was sold to Reynolds Metals in 1986.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reynoldskitchens.com/products/wax-products/wax-paper/ |title=Wax Paper |work=Reynolds Kitchens |publisher=Reynolds Consumer Products LLC |access-date=2014-11-07 }}</ref>
==Headquarters== [[File:IntlPlazaTinicumPA.jpg|thumb|International Plaza]] The headquarters of the company for many years was located at International Plaza (known then as Scott Plaza) in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in Greater Philadelphia. The complex at that time consisted of three buildings known as Plaza I, Plaza II, and Plaza III. Plaza I was completed in 1961. Plaza II was completed after 1961. Plaza III was completed in 1969.<ref name=EPAFacBackground2>"[https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-02/documents/scottpaper_sb.pdf United States Environmental Protection Agency Region III Statement of Basis former Scott Paper Research Facility Tinicum Township, PA EPA ID No. PAD001287879 Prepared by Office of Pennsylvania Remediation Land and Chemicals Division]." ([https://www.webcitation.org/6AUNF5I5z?url=http://www.epa.gov/reg3wcmd/publicnotice-pdf/ScottPaper_SB.pdf Archive] ) Environmental Protection Agency. Section 2: Facility Background p.2. August 2012. Retrieved on September 6, 2012.</ref> The complex was constructed for the purpose of serving as Scott's headquarters.<ref name=Kostelni1>Kostelni, Natalie. "Old Scott Paper HQ for sale." ''Philadelphia Business Journal''. September 16, 2002. [http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2002/09/16/story5.html 1]. Retrieved on September 6, 2012.</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Philadelphia|Pennsylvania|Companies}} * Albert J. Dunlap * Kleenex * Kimberly-Clark
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.scottbrand.com Kimberly Clark's Scott Products website]
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Category:Manufacturing companies based in Pennsylvania Category:Pulp and paper companies of the United States Category:Companies based in Delaware County, Pennsylvania Category:Defunct companies based in Pennsylvania Category:Kimberly-Clark brands Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1879 Category:Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1995 Category:Toilet paper Category:1879 establishments in Pennsylvania Category:1995 mergers and acquisitions Category: Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange