Marysville, Ohio-The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. said Sept. 8 that it is expanding its existing manufacturing plant and recently broke ground on a new office building to accommodate future growth. It also announced the purchase of a new 550,000 square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility in Orrville, Ohio. The combined projects will eventually create about 100 additional jobs. Scotts 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 one million square-foot manufacturing facility. Scotts 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. 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 new Marysville campus office building, which will open in 2010, will alleviate over-crowding in the existing headquarter facility. It will also 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.
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