Scotts LawnService was a subdivision of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, an American

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headquartered in

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History and overview

Scotts LawnService was founded in 1998, with the acquisition of Emerald Green Lawn Care. It was a division of the

Scotts Miracle-Gro Company The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Marysville, Ohio, where O.M. Scott began selling lawn seed in 1868. The company manufactures and sells consumer lawn, garden and pest control products, an ...

, and provided lawn, tree, and shrub care and pest control.

Miracle-Gro fertilizer

Miracle-Gro was created by

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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 Horace Hagedorn (1915 – 2005) was an advertising executive, businessman and philanthropist, who was co-founder of the Miracle-Gro brand, with Otto Stern. He eventually bought out the 50% interest of Stern. Biography Horace Hagedorn was born o ...

(who worked with an advertiser).

Scotts LawnService/TruGreen merger

In April 2016 TruGreen announces that it has merged with Scotts LawnService. After the merger the Scotts brand would no longer be used and Scotts customers would no longer receive Scotts brand products as part of their lawn treatments, they would be switched over to products used by TruGreen. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company would still have a 30% stake in the company after the merger, with the option to buy the operations back in the future from TruGreen.

Mergers and acquisitions

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. 2016: Scotts LawnService merges with TruGreen.

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Scotts LawnService CompanyThe Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
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