Who owns Scott?
Scott is owned by Kimberly-Clark (the United States, NASDAQ: KMB), which has owned the brand since 12 December 1995.[1]
Evidence: Kimberly-Clark Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-12, SEC EDGAR, 12 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Irving, Texas
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1879
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Tissue & paper hygiene › Facial tissue & toilet paper
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: KMB
- Trademark registrant
- KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Scott
Scott pioneered packaged toilet tissue in the 1880s, at a point when the product was sold so discreetly that the company initially declined to put its name on it. Kimberly-Clark acquired Scott Paper in 1995 for about $9.4 billion, a merger that roughly doubled its size.
What Kimberly-Clark's annual report says about Scott
Sentences about Scott from Kimberly-Clark's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Intimus, Plenitud, Sweety, Softex, Viva and WypAll, hold No. 1 or No. 2 share positions in approximately 70 countries and encompass five global daily-need product categories: Baby & Child Care, Adult Care, Feminine Care, Family Care, and Professional.
Our products are sold under well-known, trusted brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex and Depend.
This transaction also included a licensing agreement to allow the acquirer to manufacture and market in Brazil the Kleenex, Scott and Wypall brands to consumers and professional customers for a period of time.
How often Kimberly-Clark names Scott in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Trademark record for Scott
The USPTO record for the Scott mark lists KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC. as the owner of record (serial number 72041192). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Scott
- 1995 – present Kimberly-Clark [1] verified
Where Scott sits in Kimberly-Clark
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
Other brands in facial tissue & toilet paper, and who owns them
The 34 brands in facial tissue & toilet paper on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Sofidel, with 7; Kimberly-Clark has 6.
About the owner: Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark is a publicly listed company headquartered in Irving, Texas, United States, founded in 1872. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: KMB.
Kimberly-Clark started as a Wisconsin paper mill in 1872 and invented much of the modern disposable hygiene category, from cellucotton wadding to facial tissue. It agreed to acquire Kenvue in 2025 in what would be one of the largest consumer-health deals on record.
Kimberly-Clark: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Scott and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Scott is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Scott?
The parent company of Scott is Kimberly-Clark, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Scott American?
Yes. Scott originated in the United States in 1879 and its owner, Kimberly-Clark, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Kimberly-Clark owned Scott?
Kimberly-Clark has owned Scott since 12 December 1995.
Is Scott still owned by Kimberly-Clark?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Scott is still owned by Kimberly-Clark. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Kimberly-Clark Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-12 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 12 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: SCOTT, serial 72041192 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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