Who owns Ortho?
Ortho is owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro (the United States, NYSE: SMG), which has owned the brand since 1999.[1]
Evidence: The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-25, SEC EDGAR, 25 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Marysville, Ohio
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1927
- Category
- Home care › Air care & pest control › Insecticide & repellent
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: SMG
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Ortho
Ortho makes weed killers and garden insecticides for home use, founded in California in 1927. Scotts acquired the brand from Monsanto in 1999, along with the exclusive right to market consumer Roundup in the United States. That marketing agreement means Scotts sells Roundup to households while Bayer owns the brand through its Monsanto purchase.
What Scotts Miracle-Gro's annual report says about Ortho
Sentences about Ortho from Scotts Miracle-Gro's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In fiscal 1999, we acquired the Ortho brand in the U.S. and obtained exclusive rights to market Monsanto's consumer Roundup brand within the U.S. and other contractually specified countries, thereby adding industry-leading weed, pest and disease control products to our portfolio.
How often Scotts Miracle-Gro names Ortho 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. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Ortho
- 1999 – present Scotts Miracle-Gro [1] verified
Where Ortho sits in Scotts Miracle-Gro
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro
Scotts Miracle-Gro controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in home care.
Also in home care
- Tomcat (1990)
Other brands in insecticide & repellent, and who owns them
The 26 brands in insecticide & repellent on Brandtree belong to 13 owners. The largest is Earth, with 6; Scotts Miracle-Gro has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Black Cap | Earth | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Kometoban | S.T. Corporation | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| BOP | Goddard Enterprises | 🇧🇧 Barbados |
| Good Knight | Godrej Consumer | 🇮🇳 India |
| Prozap | Neogen | 🇺🇸 United States |
| OFF! | SC Johnson | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cutter | Spectrum Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| ACI Aerosol | ACI Limited | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
About the owner: Scotts Miracle-Gro
Scotts Miracle-Gro is a publicly listed company headquartered in Marysville, Ohio, United States, founded in 1868. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SMG.
Scotts Miracle-Gro traces to an Ohio seed business founded in 1868 and is the largest lawn and garden company in North America. It merged with Miracle-Gro in 1995 and later built a substantial business supplying equipment and nutrients to hydroponic and cannabis growers.
Scotts Miracle-Gro: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Ortho and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Ortho is not one of them.
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- All-Clad — Groupe SEB 🇫🇷
- Amazon Basics — Amazon 🇺🇸
- American Girl — Mattel 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Ortho?
The parent company of Ortho is Scotts Miracle-Gro, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Ortho American?
Yes. Ortho originated in the United States in 1927 and its owner, Scotts Miracle-Gro, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Scotts Miracle-Gro owned Ortho?
Scotts Miracle-Gro has owned Ortho since 1999.
Is Ortho still owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Ortho is still owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro. 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 Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-25 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 25 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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