ScottsMiracle-Gro Expands Operating Footprint in Ohio with the Addition of Three Facilities to Accommodate Future Growth
September 08 2009 - 12:01PM
PR Newswire (US)
1,500-employee Marysville campus to expand; Company purchases
distribution facility in Orrville, Ohio MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 8
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
(NYSE:SMG), the world's leading marketer of branded consumer lawn
and garden products, announced today with Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland
that it is growing its 1,500-associate Marysville campus. The
Company is expanding its existing manufacturing plant and recently
broke ground on a new office building to accommodate future growth.
The Company also announced it has purchased a new 550,000
square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility in Orrville,
Ohio. ScottsMiracle-Gro employs more than 8,000 associates
worldwide, about 1,500 of them in Marysville. The 730-acre
Marysville campus is the location of the Company's corporate
headquarters, North American consumer business, Scotts LawnService,
Research & Development center and a 1 million square-foot
manufacturing facility. The combined projects announced today will
eventually create about 100 additional jobs. "ScottsMiracle-Gro was
founded here in Marysville in 1868 and I am proud that the
company's leaders have chosen to expand their commitment to this
community and the State of Ohio," Gov. Strickland said at a
ceremony to mark the expansion plans. "This has been one of Ohio's
most successful companies for more than a century and I am hopeful
this planned expansion will create new jobs and contribute to the
overall success of our economy." After obtaining incentives from
the State of Ohio and the City of Marysville, the Company is adding
capacity to its manufacturing facility in order to process a key
ingredient in Scotts EZ Seed , one of its most successful new
products ever. In a limited first year release in 2009, EZ Seed led
to a more than 70 percent increase in consumer purchases of lawn
patching products. The expansion of the Marysville facility will
allow EZ Seed to be distributed nationally in 2010 and in Europe in
2011. "The launch of EZ Seed was such a success this year that at
times we had to scale back our advertising, because we couldn't
make the product fast enough to keep up with consumer demand," said
Jim Hagedorn, chairman and chief executive officer. "We are
confident that the expanded manufacturing capacity will allow EZ
Seed to continue to be an important product offering for
ScottsMiracle-Gro for years to come." The new office building on
the Marysville campus will open in 2010. The building will
alleviate over-crowding in the existing headquarter facility and is
designed to promote the type of creativity and collaboration needed
in key areas such as marketing and product development. The new
building also will house expanded product and merchandising
displays to be used in conjunction with key retail partners. State
of Ohio assistance for the projects in Marysville and Orrville
included two Job Creation Tax Credits, two Workforce Guarantee
grants, and a Roadwork Development grant to the City of Marysville,
with a total value of nearly $500,000. "These expansion efforts are
the result of our continued success and reflect our optimism in the
future," Hagedorn said. "They also speak to our commitment to being
an important employer in central Ohio. I want to thank Gov.
Strickland and his team, as well as Union County and Marysville
officials, for their continued support of our business and helping
us accomplish our goal of making these investments in our
hometown." About ScottsMiracle-Gro With approximately $3 billion in
worldwide sales and more than 8,000 associates, The Scotts
Miracle-Gro Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, The
Scotts Company LLC, is the world's largest marketer of branded
consumer products for lawn and garden care, with products for
professional horticulture as well. The Company's brands are the
most recognized in the industry. In the U.S., the Company's Scotts
, Miracle-Gro , Ortho brands are market-leading in their
categories, as is the consumer Roundup brand, which is marketed in
North America and most of Europe exclusively by Scotts and owned by
Monsanto. In Europe, the Company's brands include Weedol ,
Pathclear , Evergreen , Levington , Miracle-Gro , KB , Fertiligene
and Substral . For additional information, visit us at
http://www.scotts.com/ DATASOURCE: The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
CONTACT: Jim King, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and
Corporate Affairs of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company,
+1-937-578-5622 Web Site: http://www.scotts.com/
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