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Scotts LawnService was founded in 1998, with the acquisition of Emerald Green Lawn Care. It was a division of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, and provided lawn, tree, and shrub care and pest control. In April 2016 TruGreen announced that it had merged with Scotts LawnService.
In 1995, the company merged with Scotts for $200 million in stock, creating the world's largest maker of lawn and garden products, and making Hagedorn the majority investor with 42% of the company and 3 of 11 board seats. [1] [5] Hagedorn's son Jim became CEO and chairman of the merged company. [6] His father retired from Miracle-Gro in 1997. [7]
2014 – Scotts Miracle-Gro sells wild bird food line to Global Harvest Foods Ltd. 2015 – Scotts Miracle-Gro buys General Hydroponics and Vermicrop Organics to move into the marijuana market, under the name Hawthorne Gardening Company; 2015 – Scotts Lawn Service is merged with ServiceMaster's TruGreen lawn care service [citation needed]
TruGreen, originally known as ChemLawn and later as TruGreen ChemLawn, is the largest lawn treatment company in the United States. [1] [2] [3] The company was founded in 1969 and provides lawn care and tree and shrub care treatments on a subscription basis (except in New York where it is by contract basis). [4]
Miracle-Gro, a water-soluble fertilizer, was developed after Hagedorn met nurseryman Otto Stern and learned of Stern's troubles shipping plants in 1944. [1] [2] [3] The pair hired O. Wesley Davidson, a Rutgers University professor to develop the fertilizer. [1] Hagedorn used royalties from producing a crime-drama "The Big Story" to fund the ...
Hawthorne Gardening Company, formed in October 2014, [1] is The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company ' s subsidiary for cannabis growers and one of the first major investments by a major United States corporation in the cannabis industry.
Zsa Zsa Gabor was born Sári Gábor on February 6, 1917, [a] in Budapest, Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. [7] The middle of three daughters, her parents were Jolie (née Janszieka Tillemann) and Vilmos Gábor (né Grün), [8] [9] owner of a jewellery shop [10] store in Budapest, [11] a Royal Hungarian Army officer.
Lake Apopka is the fourth largest lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [1] It is located 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Orlando , mostly within the bounds of Orange County , although the western part is in Lake County .