Scotts Miracle Gro (NYSE: SMG) of course, which makes lawn fertilizers, and crabgrass controls.
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The Scotts didn't have the money for Yeson's packages, so they got quotes from rival brokers.
Monsanto competes with companies like Du Pont, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical and Scotts Miracle-Gro.
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Depot cut Toro's floor space while selling Deere-made mowers under the exclusive Scotts brand.
Scotts produced a spectacular and steady decade-long run-up until the beginning of last year.
The Strickland campaign said the money helped Scotts create 33 new jobs and retain 303 more.
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In 1995 Horace merged his privately held firm into the publicly traded Scotts.
So why the backlash, when Scotts, also a consumer goods company, has not experienced the same degree of backlash?
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In 2004 Scotts pulled the plug on Nature's Care, a small line of organic products it tested, because of lackluster consumer response.
When Jim Hagedorn took the helm of Scotts Miracle-Gro Co.
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The Scotts said they thought living in Australia would have benefited Niamh.
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Scotts plans to gradually introduce more gardening soil, fertilizer and bug killer made with natural ingredients, including animal manure and Sri Lankan coconut husks.
Scotts had much higher revenue but a much lower profit margin, and the Hagedorn family wound up with 42% (now 31%) of the stock.
With a current-year price-to-earnings ratio just above 10 and a projected five-year growth rate of 10.8%, Scotts sells at a discount to anticipated growth.
Scotts Miracle Gro also gets caught up in the agriculture trade, and should benefit as farmers look to continue to increase yields of their crops.
Scotts Miracle-Gro manufactures and markets lawn and garden care products worldwide, while Deere makes lawn mowers, both walking and riding for your lawn care needs.
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The goal, under Chief Executive James Hagedorn, is for half of Scotts' fertilizer and pesticides to be naturally derived within as few as three years.
Scotts can't market natural products in a way that will spook gardeners who buy the chemical-soaked stuff that helps them grow football-size tulips and tomatoes.
The balancing act is a concern for many executives at Scotts.
Hagedorn insists that Scotts' products are safe when used as directed.
In contrast, I have great concerns about conscripting American taxpayers to erect an elaborate and expensive system to protect future Scotts from similar bad choices.
Scotts trades at 13.7 times 2011 earnings, and has a 1.8% dividend yield, while Deere trades at 12.7 times 2011 earnings, and sports a 1.6% dividend yield.
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Outside his property a sign reads "No Golf Course" and he embodies the feeling many Scotts have against the power real estate developer from New York City.
Scotts execs were surprised that consumers were turned off when told Organic Choice soil contained pasteurized chicken waste, which Scotts gets from a Perdue factory in Seaford, Del.
However, Scotts said it looks forward to strength later in the year, and anticipates 6% sales growth from its Global Consumer and Scotts LawnService segment in fiscal 2012.
Almost all of that came from dirt, fertilizer, bug spray and weed killers sold under brand names Scotts, Miracle-Gro, Ortho--brands it owns--and Roundup, marketed through an agreement with Monsanto.
At Scotts' headquarters in Ohio, meanwhile, company spokesman Jim King said the suspension of deliveries would not have an immediate impact on either its business or its relationship with Kmart.
It is part of a quiet move by the company to be less dependent on synthetically created chemicals, which include the main components in Scotts' distinctive blue Miracle-Gro plant food.
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