Augustine grass, including the Floratam variety that other products sometimes harm. This weed and feed is specially formulated for use on southern lawns. and parts of Fla.†The two impacted products are Scotts Turf Builder Bonus S Southern Weed and Feed and Scotts Snap Southern Weed and Feed.Scotts is a popular brand that’s well respected for its line of lawn care products. While most of the complaints are in two states, Scotts said it has replaced “each and every package of these new formula products currently for sale in Louisiana, Ala., Ark., Miss., Ga., N.C., S.C. €œIt’s not to be an issue once we get it behind us,†Coleman said. Texas and Florida customers were happy, he said. Coleman said there was a “spike in consumer complaints†in South Carolina and Louisiana. Scotts voluntarily took its newly formulated Bonus S weed-and-feed off the shelves and replaced it with the old formula, Coleman told analysts at a New York City conference on May 21. Now it expects it to fall on the lower end of that range, to between $3.40 and $3.50. Marysville-based Scotts had expected fiscal 2015 earnings between $3.40 and $3.60 a share. It took action after numerous customer complaints that the weed-and-feed product wasn’t feeding lawns – rather, it was killing them.ĬFO Randy Coleman called the voluntary move a “hiccup†but with a cost estimated between $5 million and $7 million, it led the company to temper its earnings guidance. Scotts Miracle-Gro is taking a multimillion-dollar hit after the company took one of its most-popular products off the shelves in some states. Scotts Bonus S found to be killing grass and is characterized as a “hiccup†by CFO Randy Coleman.įollowing grass-killing complaints, the company is removing Bonus S from shelves.
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