Category: Farm

Blain’s Farm & Fleet

About Blain’s Farm & Fleet — legally Blain Supply, Inc. — is an American family-owned regional chain of farm supply and general merchandise retail stores headquartered at 3507 East Racine Street, Janesville, Wisconsin 53547, which also serves as the location of the company’s sole distribution center. Blain’s Farm & Fleet was founded in 1955 in Janesville by brothers W.C. “Claude” Blain and N.B. “Bert” Blain, and has remained a privately held, family-owned company for its entire 70-year history — never accepting outside investment or going public. Today, the business is primarily owned and led by Jane Blain Gilbertson (Claude’s daughter), who has served as CEO and President since 2014, following the retirement of her brother Robert. Blain’s Farm & Fleet

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Rural King

About Rural King Supply (operating as RK Holdings, LLP) is the largest privately owned farm and home retail chain in the United States, headquartered at 700 Broadway Avenue East, Mattoon, Illinois 61938 — in the small east-central Illinois city where it was founded 65 years ago and has remained ever since. Rural King was founded in 1960 by the Mockler family in Mattoon, and to this day the company remains privately and family-owned — never having taken outside investment or gone public. Rural King is America’s answer to Tractor Supply Company in the farm and rural lifestyle retail segment, with a warehouse-style, no-frills format offering livestock supplies, equine and pet products, firearms and ammunition, agricultural equipment, tools, outdoor power equipment,

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Tractor Supply Company

  About Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) is an American specialty retail chain headquartered at 5401 Virginia Way, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027 — a Nashville suburb approximately 12 miles south of downtown Nashville, in Williamson County. Founded in 1938 by Charles Schmidt as a mail-order catalog business supplying tractor parts to farmers, Tractor Supply has evolved into the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States — a category it defines as serving recreational farmers and ranchers, homeowners with land and animals, gardeners, equine enthusiasts, and pet owners who embrace a hands-on, outdoor lifestyle. The company calls its corporate campus in Brentwood its “Store Support Center” — a deliberate naming choice that reflects TSC’s cultural philosophy that all corporate functions exist

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