Who owns Hayter?
Hayter is owned by Toro (the United States, NYSE: TTC).[1]
Evidence: The Toro Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-12-17, SEC EDGAR, 17 December 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Toro Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Bloomington
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Home improvement › Lawn & garden
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: TTC
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Hayter
Hayter is a walk power mower brand that The Toro Company sells mainly in the United Kingdom, named in its 10-K as its brand there. The group holds the business through Hayter Holdings Limited, a United Kingdom subsidiary listed in the 10-K Exhibit 21 subsidiary list.
What Toro's annual report says about Hayter
Sentences about Hayter from Toro's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Walk Power Mower Products We design, manufacture, market, and sell walk power mower equipment products under our Toro and Lawn-Boy brand names, as well as the Hayter brand in the United Kingdom.
How often Toro names Hayter in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
Ownership timeline of Hayter
Where Hayter sits in Toro
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Toro
Toro controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in lawn & garden, and who owns them
The 29 brands in lawn & garden on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Bioceres, with 5; Toro has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bioceres Semillas | Bioceres | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Flymo | Husqvarna Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| AMES | Griffon | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dolphin | Maytronics | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| Miracle-Gro | Scotts Miracle-Gro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BASF Agricultural Solutions | BASF | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Roundup | Bayer | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Pennington | Central Garden & Pet | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Toro
Toro is a publicly listed company headquartered in Bloomington, United States. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: TTC.
The Toro Company is a Minnesota-based maker of turf maintenance, landscape, irrigation, snow and underground construction equipment, reporting a Professional and a Residential segment in its 10-K. Its Ditch Witch brand sits in the Underground Construction line; it also licenses its trademark on certain yard tools. Not related to the Toro chocolate brand listed under another owner.
🇬🇧 Hayter and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 543 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 282 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Hayter among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Hayter?
The parent company of Hayter is Toro, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Hayter British or American?
Hayter originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by Toro, which is headquartered in the United States. So Hayter is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Is Hayter still owned by Toro?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Hayter is still owned by Toro. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Toro Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-12-17 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 17 December 2025; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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