Hagedorn, Horace

Hagedorn, Horace
▪ 2006

      American businessman (b. March 18, 1915, New York, N.Y.—d. Jan. 31, 2005, Sands Point, N.Y.), founded Miracle-Gro Products, Inc., and used his marketing acumen to make Miracle-Gro the most widely used home plant fertilizer in the world. In 1950 Hagedorn was running an advertising agency when Otto Stern, who owned a mail-order nursery business, sought his services. Hagedorn conceived the idea of adding a plant food to the company's wares and hired an orchid expert to develop an easy-to-use, water-soluble plant fertilizer. Hagedorn and Stern went into business together to market Miracle-Gro fertilizer. In 1995 Miracle-Gro merged with the Scotts Co., and Hagedorn retired in 1997 to devote his resources to philanthropy.

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