Gillette obtained a trademark registration (0056921) for his portrait and signature on the packaging.
Gillette died in Los Angeles, California, and is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Gillette improved these earlier designs of the safety razor and also introduced his true innovation of inexpensive, high profit-margin stamped steel blades (along with his unique business model).
Gillette as a brand is still best known for its razor blades.
According to the New York Times of June 5, 2005, Gillette's CEO James M. Kilts stood to make $165 million from the merger while 17,000 Gillette employees were to receive pink slips as a result of it.
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