Subsidiary | |
Industry | Lawn Care and Service |
Founded | Marysville, Ohio (1998) |
Headquarters | Marysville, Ohio, USA |
Key people
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James Gimeson, President of Scotts LawnService |
Number of employees
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2,000 |
Parent | Scotts Miracle-Gro Company |
Website | www |
Scotts LawnService is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Marysville, Ohio.
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 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).
2002: Scotts LawnService acquires The Lawn Company, a major lawn care service company in the Boston area.
2002: Scotts LawnService acquires substantially all of the lawn care operations of Centex HomeTeam Services, a division of Centex Corporation.