Sioux City, Iowa — Officials with Bomgaars have confirmed an expansion that gives the Sioux City-based company the second-largest group of farm-and-ranch stores in the country.
Bomgaars’ acquisition of 73 Orscheln stores is part of a mega-deal with two other retailers that was disclosed on October 11th.
The Federal Trade Commission had anti-trust concerns about Tennessee-based Tractor Supply Company’s bid for Orscheln Farm and Home, so the agency required that some Orscheln locations be purchased by separate companies. Another firm purchased a dozen Orscheln locations.
The 73 stores Bomgaars is acquiring are in seven states. Bomgaars’ purchase of an Orscheln distribution center in Moberly, Missouri, will close next fall.
Bomgaars started in 1944 as a single store in Middleburg, Iowa. Bomgaars has stores scattered throughout our listening area, including Canton, South Dakota, Rock Valley, Sioux Center, Hawarden, Orange City, Cherokee, Spencer, Le Mars, and Sheldon. Bomgaars arrived in Sheldon in the late 1990s, first being in a building just over 17,500 square feet on 2nd Avenue, before building a new, 37,000 square foot building at its current location in east Sheldon.
With this acquisition, Bomgaars will operate from 180 locations in 15 states.
