Gillette Logo — Gillette is a brand of the company Procter & Gamble. Formerly manufactured by The Gillette Company, which was founded by King Camp Gillette in 1901 as a manufacturer of accessories for shaving. The brand was based in Boston, Massachusetts. On October 1st of 2005, The Gillette Company was acquired by Procter & Gamble for about 57 billion dollars. As a result of this acquisition, the Gillette Company no longer exists. His last day of trading market G — (symbol NYSE) was the September 30th of 2005. The merger created the world’s largest personal care and household products.
Before the merger, Gillette had grown into a worldwide leading supplier of products under a variety of brands. In addition to Gillette, the company markets Braun, Duracell and Oral-B, among others. In July 2007, Global Gillette was dissolved and joined Procter & Gamble two main divisions, Procter & Gamble Beauty Proctor & Gamble Household. Its analogue The Art of Shaving is directed to a more exclusive than Gillette. More