{{Short description|Former lawncare provider based in Ohio}} {{Merge to|TruGreen|discuss=Talk:TruGreen#Proposed merge of Scotts LawnService into TruGreen|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox company | name = Scotts LawnService | logo = | type = Subsidiary | foundation = Marysville, Ohio (1998) | location = Marysville, Ohio, U.S. | key_people = James Gimeson, President of Scotts LawnService | industry = Lawn Care and Service | services = lawn and garden care | num_employees_year = 2017 | parent = Scotts Miracle-Gro Company | num_employees = 4,700<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/scotts-miracle-gro/|title=Scotts Miracle-Gro|website=Fortune|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref> | homepage = {{URL|http://www.scottslawnservice.com/}} }} '''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.
==History and overview==
Scotts LawnService was founded in 1998, with the acquisition of Emerald Green Lawn Care.<!-- When was Emerald Green founded? What was its ownership? --> 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.<ref name=SellsStake>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lawnandlandscape.com/article/ll-032219-scotts-miracle-gro-sells-trugreen-stake/ |title=ScottsMiracle-Gro sells TruGreen stake to retire debt |last=Castelli |first=Giovanni |date=March 22, 2019 |website=Lawn & Landscape|language=en |access-date=May 8, 2019}}</ref>
==Mergers and acquisitions==
* 2002: Scotts LawnService acquires The Lawn Company, a major lawn care service company in the Boston area,<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://investor.scotts.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98364&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=269533 | title=Scotts LawnService Announces Largest Acquisition to Date | publisher=The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company | accessdate=2007-09-19 |date=March 14, 2002}}</ref> and substantially all of the lawn care operations of Centex HomeTeam Services, a division of Centex Corporation.<ref>{{cite press release |date=August 13, 2002 | url=http://investor.scotts.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98364&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=325059 | title=Scotts LawnService Acquires Lawn Care Operations From Centex HomeTeam Services | publisher=The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company | accessdate=2007-09-19}}</ref> * 2016: Scotts LawnService merges with TruGreen. * 2019: Scotts Miracle-Gro Company sells its stake in TruGreen
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20000420134257/http://www.scottslawnservice.com/ Scotts LawnService Company] *[http://www.scotts.com The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company] official website (now a site for online sales of lawn care products)
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