ScottsMiracle-Gro Expands Operating Footprint
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company is growing its 1,500-associate Marysville, Ohio, campus by expanding its existing manufacturing plant and breaking 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.
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.
"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," says Jim Hagedorn, chairman and chief executive officer, ScottsMiracle-Gro. "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.
"These expansion efforts are the result of our continued success and reflect our optimism in the future," Hagedorn says. "They also speak to our commitment to being an important employer in central 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.
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.
"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," says Jim Hagedorn, chairman and chief executive officer, ScottsMiracle-Gro. "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.
"These expansion efforts are the result of our continued success and reflect our optimism in the future," Hagedorn says. "They also speak to our commitment to being an important employer in central Ohio."