Scotts LawnService

Scotts LawnService was a subdivision of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, an American multinational corporation headquartered in Marysville, Ohio. It was founded with the acquisition of Emerald Green Lawn Care in 1998 and was merged into TruGreen in 2016.

Scotts LawnService

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Lawn Care and Service
Founded	Marysville, Ohio (1998)
Headquarters	Marysville, Ohio, U.S.
Key people	James Gimeson, President of Scotts LawnService
Services	lawn and garden care
Number of employees	4,700[1] (2017)
Parent	Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Website	www.scottslawnservice.com

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

In April 2016 TruGreen announced that it had merged with Scotts LawnService. After the merger the Scotts brand was no longer used, and Scotts customers no longer received Scotts brand products as part of their lawn treatments; they were instead switched over to products used by TruGreen. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company retained a 30% stake in the company after the merger, with the option to buy the operations back in the future from TruGreen.

In 2019, Scotts Miracle-Gro sold its 30% minority stake in TruGreen for approximately $234 million.^[2]

Mergers and acquisitions

• 2002: Scotts LawnService acquires The Lawn Company, a major lawn care service company in the Boston area,^[3] and substantially all of the lawn care operations of Centex HomeTeam Services, a division of Centex Corporation.^[4]
• 2016: Scotts LawnService merges with TruGreen.
• 2019: Scotts Miracle-Gro Company sells its stake in TruGreen