Who Founded Scotts Miracle-Gro?

Orlando McLean Scott was a Civil War veteran who founded the seed business O.M. Scott & Sons in Marysville, Ohio, in 1868. He sold mechanically cleaned, weed-free seed to farmers, building the reputation for seed quality that became the foundation of the Scotts brand. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Horace Hagedorn was an advertising executive who co-founded Miracle-Gro in 1951 with nurseryman Otto Stern. He built the brand through direct-response and broadcast advertising, and Miracle-Gro combined with Scotts in 1995. His family, through the Hagedorn Partnership, remains the largest shareholder.

Horace Hagedorn was born in 1915 in Manhattan.

Hagedorn was born in 1915 and died in 2005. An advertising executive, he co-founded the Miracle-Gro brand with Otto Stern and later bought out Stern's 50 percent interest.

Otto Stern co-founded Stern's Miracle-Gro Products in 1951 alongside Horace Hagedorn. Running a small nursery business in New York, he partnered with Hagedorn (a brilliant advertising executive) to mass-market a revolutionary water-soluble fertilizer formulated by an orchid expert, laying the foundation for the massive Miracle-Gro brand. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).