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Article: Smith & Hawken to close stores, including six in Bay Area
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- Oakland Tribune
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- July 9, 2009
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Thirty years after Dave Smith and Paul Hawken founded gardening
tool importer Smith & Hawken in Mill Valley, the company will be
shut down by the weed killer maker that purchased it in 2004.
Ohio-based parent company Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. said Wednesday
that it will cease all Smith & Hawken business by the end of 2009,
having a hired a liquidator, Gordon Brothers Group of Boston, to
help it do so.
The move calls for the closure of all of Smith & Hawken's 56
retail stores in the U.S. and the layoff of the company's 700
employees nationwide, including 70 at its corporate offices at
Hangar Four in Hamilton Landing and 30 at its retail store in the
Strawberry Village shopping center in Mill ...