The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company was founded in 1868 by Orlando Scott as a premium seed company named Scotts Lawn Seed. The company was incorporated as The O.M. Scott & Sons Company in 1914.
In the 1960’s Scotts started to selling a program of products for lawns, including training classes for retailers so they could better sell Scotts products.
In the 1970’s the company expanded with two new divisions: the Golf Course Division, developed to promote a line of products for golf courses and other institutional customers, and Scotts Lawn Service, offering full-service landscaping through a network of 160 locations.
Today The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company makes and markets fertilizers, grass seeds, potting soils, herbicides and tools under the Ortho, Miracle-Gro, Scotts, and Turf Builder brands.
The company trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SMG, is a member of the S&P 400, is #768 in the Fortune 1000, has 6,700 employees, and had $2.84 billion in revenue in 2013.
The Scotts Miracle-Gro CompanyThe Scotts Miracle-Gro Company was founded in 1868 by Orlando Scott as a premium seed company named Scotts Lawn Seed. The company was incorporated as The O.M. Scott & Sons Company in 1914.
In the 1960’s Scotts started to selling a program of products for lawns, including training classes for retailers so they could better sell Scotts products.
In the 1970’s the company expanded with two new divisions: the Golf Course Division, developed to promote a line of products for golf courses and other institutional customers, and Scotts Lawn Service, offering full-service landscaping through a network of 160 locations.
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Today The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company makes and markets fertilizers, grass seeds, potting soils, herbicides and tools under the Ortho, Miracle-Gro, Scotts, and Turf Builder brands.
The company trades publicly on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SMG, is a member of the S&P 400, is #768 in the Fortune 1000, has 6,700 employees, and had $2.84 billion in revenue in 2013.
I contacted your company yesterday (7/20/22) about a toxic situation that occurred when several bags of your Miracle Gro gardening soil shed the green and yellow ink/paint/whatever it is that you use to cover your product all over my lawn. I purchased the soil on 7/19/22. The particulate residue shed from the bags covered my driveway, the wheelbarrow, and my lawn and has prohibited my ability to actually use it in the raised bed garden enclosure that I built for the purpose. I called and informed your customer service line. They were not helpful and offered no specific solutions. They asked for identifying lot numbers stamped on the bags but I could not provide them because the paint/ink/whatever it is that you use to cover your product had sluffed off and I was told to email photographs of the problem, which I did. I have waited all day and did not heard back…neither by email or included cell number. I have subsequently had to act on my own and haul the bags away to the curb for garbage removal. My community requires a $3.50 refuse sticker for each extra item. I have had to attempt to remove the millions of green/yellow paint/ink/whatever it is that you use to cover your product particle from my yard. In short, your product failed in a toxic way…I reported it…and your customer service people did nothing to assist me.
I just got off the phone with your company to cancel an order. First, I have no complaints about the personnel I spoke with today. I placed an order 500005101 on 2/25/19. I called on 3/7/19 and was told it was difficult to fill the order because the product was being discontinued although the web site failed to say so otherwise I would not have ordered. Since to date, 3/18/19 I have received no email indicating shipping I called again to cancel and have my payment card reimbursed the original charges. I have been basically told your system may not stop shipping and I can refuse delivery, which I will. I do not know how much you pay to have your system installed and running but it seems you have been overcharged if you cannot stop an order before shipping. Today I spent 42 minutes of my time to partially resolve the situation. For a company that prides itself on your products and spends millions on advertising, you perhaps need to re-evaluate the manner in which situations like this are handled and again, not the personnel involved but the process they follow by script as they deal with the situation. I hope that someone reads this and perhaps it will be helpful. You may call me at 972 965 XXXX and discuss the matter if you like, otherwise have a good day. Ed McQuat
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I was your customer until I found out you advertise on Fox & Friends. You use to be the only company that I would buy all my gardening and lawn products needed. NO MORE!!!
By advertising on FOX you proved you have no “Moral Compass”. My family and family friends have all teamed up and will no longer purchase any product connected to your string of companies.
We are a nonprofit public benefit corporation that is working with the National Park Service and the American Rose Society to introduce a new “Rosie the Riveter Rose” as a symbol of the women who worked on the Home Front during WWII.
Together with other partners, we are creating a “living memorial” in the form of a national network of public Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Gardens in communities throughout America in preparation for the international commemoration of the end of WWII that is planned for 2020.
The first Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden was planted at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front Historical Park in Richmond, CA, on March 21, to coincide with the first National Rosie the Riveter Day that passed by Congress as part of National Women’s History Month.
We are currently confirming Gardens in more than 20 states, with the goal of having at least one Garden in each state by National Rosie the Riveter Day on March 21, 2018, and one in each Congressional District by March 21, 2020.
The project seeks to engage local groups, including youth leadership organizations like the Girl Scouts, to plant and maintain Gardens in an appropriate public location who will organize ceremonies and events at their site to ensure public awareness of these symbols of America’s Rosie’s who paved the way for greater opportunities for women in the workplace.
“America’s Longest Working Rosie the Riveter, ” Elinor Marie Otto, 97, is the national spokeswoman for the Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Gardens project. She and her Congressman planted the first community Garden in Long Beach, CA where Elinor worked building airplanes until she was 95.
We would like to discuss how Scotts-Miracle Grow can help support this intergenerational national project which aligns so well with its corporate philosophy and values.
Thank you for considering this request.