Scotts Company (SMG)

 

The Company also leases warehouse space throughout North America and continental Europe as needed.

 

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

 

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As noted in the discussion in “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — Regulatory Considerations,” “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — FIFRA Compliance, the Corresponding Governmental Investigation and Related Matters” and “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — Other Regulatory Matters,” we are involved in several pending environmental and regulatory matters. We believe that our assessment of contingencies is reasonable and that related reserves, in the aggregate, are adequate; however, there can be no assurance that the final resolution of these matters will not have a material adverse affect on our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.

 

Pending significant legal proceedings are as follows:

 

 

Hagedorn Partnership, L.P. beneficially owned approximately 31%
of our outstanding common shares as of November 21, 2008,
and has sufficient voting power to significantly influence the
election of directors and the approval of other actions
requiring the approval of our shareholders.

 

 

None.

 

 

The Company owns or leases, as appropriate, numerous facilities
throughout the world to support each of its respective business
segments.

 

18

 

The Company also leases warehouse space throughout North America
and continental Europe as needed.

 

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

 

19

 

As noted in the discussion in “ITEM 1.
BUSINESS — Regulatory Considerations,”
“ITEM 1. BUSINESS — FIFRA Compliance, the
Corresponding Governmental Investigation and Related
Matters” and “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — Other
Regulatory Matters,” we are involved in several pending
environmental and regulatory matters. We believe that our
assessment of contingencies is reasonable and that related
reserves, in the aggregate, are adequate; however, there can be
no assurance that the final resolution of these matters will not
have a material adverse affect on our results of operations,
financial position and cash flows.

 

Pending significant legal proceedings are as follows:

 

 

 

The Company also leases warehouse space throughout North America and continental Europe as needed.

 

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

 

 

As noted in the discussion in “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — Regulatory Considerations,” “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — FIFRA Compliance, the Corresponding Governmental Investigation and Related Matters” and “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — Other Regulatory Matters,” we are involved in several pending environmental and regulatory matters. We believe that our assessment of contingencies is reasonable and that related reserves, in the aggregate, are adequate; however, there can be no assurance that the final resolution of these matters will not have a material adverse affect on our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.

 

Pending significant legal proceedings are as follows:

 

 

Hagedorn Partnership, L.P. beneficially owned approximately 31%
of our outstanding common shares as of November 21, 2008,
and has sufficient voting power to significantly influence the
election of directors and the approval of other actions
requiring the approval of our shareholders.

 

 

None.

 

 

The Company owns or leases, as appropriate, numerous facilities
throughout the world to support each of its respective business
segments.

 

 

18

 

 

The Company also leases warehouse space throughout North America
and continental Europe as needed.

 

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

 

 

As noted in the discussion in “ITEM 1.
BUSINESS — Regulatory Considerations,”
“ITEM 1. BUSINESS — FIFRA Compliance, the
Corresponding Governmental Investigation and Related
Matters” and “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — Other
Regulatory Matters,” we are involved in several pending
environmental and regulatory matters. We believe that our
assessment of contingencies is reasonable and that related
reserves, in the aggregate, are adequate; however, there can be
no assurance that the final resolution of these matters will not
have a material adverse affect on our results of operations,
financial position and cash flows.

 

Pending significant legal proceedings are as follows:

 

The North America segment owns two additional research facilities located in Apopka, Florida; and Gervais, Oregon. 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 27 growing media facilities in North America — 22 of which are owned by us and 5 of which are leased. Most of our growing media facilities include production lines, warehouses, offices and field processing areas. We lease sales offices in Atlanta, Georgia; 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. We own 6 seed production facilities; one for grass seed in Albany, Oregon and 5 for wild bird food in Indiana, South Dakota, South Carolina and Texas.

 

Scotts LawnService^® conducts its company-owned operations from 78 leased facilities, primarily office/warehouse units in industrial/office parks, across the United States serving 46 metropolitan markets.

 

Smith & Hawken^® operates 61 retail stores, which are 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 (Lyon); a German office, located in Ingelheim; an Austrian office, located in Salzburg; an Australian office, located in Baulkan Hills (New South Wales); a Belgium sales office, located in Sint Niklaas; and a Netherlands office for its professional business, located in Waardenburg. We own manufacturing facilities in Howden, Hatfield (East Yorkshire) and Sutton Bridge, 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. Our site in Heerlen, the Netherlands includes a research facility, 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 lease a research and development facility in Chazay, France. In the United Kingdom, we own a research and development facility in Levington and we lease a research and development facility in Bramford.

 

We lease warehouse space throughout North America 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.

 

 

As noted in the discussion in “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — Environmental and Regulatory Considerations” and “ITEM 1. BUSINESS — Regulatory Actions,” we are involved in several pending environmental matters. We believe that our assessment of contingencies is reasonable and that related reserves, in the aggregate, are adequate; however, there can be no assurance that the final resolution of these matters will not have a material adverse affect on our results of operations, financial position and cash flows.

 

Pending significant legal proceedings are as follows: