About EDGAR Online | Login
 
The following is an excerpt from a 10-K SEC Filing, filed by SCOTTS COMPANY on 11/24/2004.
Next Section Next Section Previous Section Previous Section
SCOTTS MIRACLE-GRO CO - 10-K - 20041124 - PROPERTIES

     For certain information concerning our international revenues and long-lived assets, see “ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS” and Note 21 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

     We lease land from the Union County Community Improvement Corporation in Marysville, Ohio for our headquarters and for our research and development facilities. We own property in Marysville, Ohio for our manufacturing and distribution facilities. Combined, these facilities are situated on approximately 875 acres of land.

      The North America segment owns three additional research facilities located in Apopka, Florida, Gervais, Oregon, and Valley Center, California. We own a production facility, which encompasses 27 acres, in Fort Madison, Iowa and lease a spreader and other durable components manufacturing facility in Temecula, California. We also lease a controlled-release fertilizer manufacturing facility in Charleston, South Carolina. We operate 23 growing media facilities in 17 states — 17 of which are owned by us and six of which are leased. Most of our growing media facilities include production lines, warehouses, offices and field processing areas. We lease one compost facility, located at a bagging facility in Lebanon, Connecticut. We also lease sales offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Troy, Michigan; Mooresville, North Carolina; Rolling Meadows, Illinois; and Bentonville, Arkansas. We also lease a facility in Mississauga, Ontario that serves as the headquarters for our Canadian subsidiary.

      Scotts LawnService® conducts its Company-owned operations from approximately 68 leased facilities, primarily office/warehouse units in industrial/office parks, across the United States serving 49 metropolitan markets.

      Smith & Hawken® operates 58 retail stores, all leased facilities primarily in shopping centers across the United States. It leases its main headquarters in Novato, California.

      The International segment leases its U.K. office, located in Godalming (Surrey); its French headquarters and local operations office, located in Ecully; a German office, located in Ingelheim; an Austrian office, located in Salzburg; an Australian office, located in Baulkan Hills (New South Wales); and a Canadian office located in Toronto. We own manufacturing facilities in Howden and Hatfield (East Yorkshire) in the United Kingdom. We also own a blending and bagging facility for growing media in Hautmont, France; and a plant in Bourth, France, that we use for formulating, blending and packaging control products for the consumer market. We lease a research and development facility in Chazay, France. Our site in Heerlen, the Netherlands is both a distribution center and a manufacturing site for coated fertilizers for the consumer and professional markets. We own the land and the building for the manufacturing facility, but lease the distribution center building. We own research and development facilities in Levington and Bramford in the United Kingdom. We lease a sales office in Sint Niklaas, Belgium.


13


 

      We lease warehouse space throughout the United States and continental Europe as needed.

      We believe that our facilities are adequate to serve their intended purposes at this time and that our property leasing arrangements are satisfactory.