Scotts LawnService

Scotts LawnService
Subsidiary
Industry Lawn Care and Service
Founded Marysville, Ohio (1998)
Headquarters Marysville, Ohio, USA
Key people
James Gimeson, President of Scotts LawnService
Number of employees
2,000
Parent Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Website www.scottslawnservice.com

Scotts LawnService is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Marysville, Ohio.

History & Overview

Scotts LawnService was founded in 1998, with the acquisition of Emerald Green Lawn Care. It is a division of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, and provides lawn, tree, and shrub care and pest control.

Miracle Gro Fertilizer

Miracle Gro was created by Rutgers University professor O. Wesley Davidson, a research scientist in plant nutrition and orchid culture, around 1940-1950, at the request of Otto Stern (a mail-order seller of houseplants) and Horace Hagedorn (who worked with an advertiser).[1][2][3]

Mergers and Acquisitions

2002: Scotts LawnService acquires The Lawn Company, a major lawn care service company in the Boston area.[4]
2002: Scotts LawnService acquires substantially all of the lawn care operations of Centex HomeTeam Services, a division of Centex Corporation.[5]

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