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Gurney's Seed and Nursery Co. is a mail-order seed and garden plant company based in Greendale, Indiana.Founded in 1866, Gurney's specializes in vegetable and flower seeds, gardening supplies and nursery stock, including trees, shrubs, perennials, fruit trees and berries, fertilizers and plant foods.
In 1856, Milo T. Gardner, Dexter M. Ferry, and Eber F. Church [1] organized a small seed-growing company, M.T. Gardner & Company [2] (also known as Gardner, Ferry, and Church) in Detroit, Michigan. The first year the company did $6,000 in business. [3] Its profits continued to be stable until 1865, when Ferry bought out Gardner's share and took ...
Founded in Tokyo, moved to the U.S. in 1958. Defunct in 2021. 1667 Seaside Inn: Kennebunkport, Maine: Hotel [8] [14] [15] 1670 Hudson's Bay Company: New York City: Retail [16] Founded in England by Royal Charter, headquartered today in Toronto and New York City: 1673 White Horse Tavern: Newport, Rhode Island: Restaurant [8] [17] [18] 1680 ...
Dec. 11—By Ayanna Eckblad This year, Albert Lea Seed celebrated 100 years of the company being in their family, a huge feat for any business. According to their website, Albert Lea Seed is ...
Gifts and general merchandise accounted for 40 percent of the company's revenue; the other 60 percent of revenue was gardening related. [3] As of 2011, Gardens Alive! was the top seed cataloger in the United States, with $100.6 million of revenue from its seed catalogs compared to $24.8 million for Park Seed Company, the second largest ...
In 1994, Mexico-based company, Empresas La Moderna SA purchased Asgrow for $300 million. At the time, Asgrow was the fifth-largest seed company with $270 million in sales. [2] [3] Monsanto purchased Asgrow from Empresas in 1996 for $240 million dollars. [4] In 1997, the company moved its headquarters to the Des Moines area from Kalamazoo ...
Dexter Mason Ferry (August 8, 1833 – November 10, 1907) [1] was a businessman from Detroit, Michigan who founded D.M. Ferry & Co., at one time the largest seed company in the world. [1] He is the namesake of Ferry Field at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Adler Seeds is an American company that was founded in 1937 by Howard Adler, in Sharpsville, Indiana. Adler Seeds was formerly known as George Adler & Sons until later when it was then incorporated and called Adler Seeds. By 1993 Howard Alder had resigned and decided to pass on the company to John Adler, his son. In 2005, it merged with Kelley ...