Retailer Runnings expanding through new acquisitiions

MARSHALL, Minn.–Marshall, Minnesota-based Runnings has reached an agreement to purchase R.P. Home & Harvest, a family-owned company with 22 locations and one
distribution facility across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Upon completion of the acquisition, Runnings’s footprint will expand to 80 retail locations, serving customers in 12 states from New York to Montana.

Runnings President Brian Odegaard says these stores and communities are very similar to the markets they presently serve

The stores will transition to the Runnings name.

Runnings operates 18 stores in South Dakota, including Watertown, 17 in Minnesota and six in North Dakota.