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Orgill announced that Bomgaars Supply has selected Orgill as its Vendor Partner of the Year.
The award honors Orgill’s performance, service and collaboration and was unanimously decided on by Bomgaars’ leadership team. Orgill received the award during Bomgaars’ recent annual sales meeting.
“It is always an incredible honor when one of your customers recognizes your team for their hard work,” says Boyden Moore, Orgill’s president and CEO. “Our mission—to help our customers be successful—is baked into everything we do and our relationship with Bomgaars is a great representation of how we are able to execute that vision when we work side by side with our customers.”
In the last two years, Bomgaars has added more than 70 former Orscheln Farm & Home locations to its network, further strengthening the partnership with Orgill.
“We’ve been an Orgill customer for nearly 20 years, and they’ve always been a fantastic partner,” says Torrey Wingert, CEO of Bomgaars, which operates more than 180 stores across 15 states. “After our company’s acquisition of the Orscheln store locations, Orgill simply went above and beyond. The scale of what we accomplished together—converting 73 stores in under a year—was a massive undertaking, and we couldn’t have done it without Orgill’s support.”
To ensure the new stores were brought online as quickly as possible, an aggressive conversion schedule was necessary.
“The conversions began in January 2024 and were completed by November 2024,” Wingert says. “This whole time, Orgill was with us every step of the way. We had a very aggressive schedule that called for the conversion of 8 to 10 stores a month. But thanks to the support from Orgill, we were able to live up to this plan. They were in the stores on the ground, making things happen. From the product selection and design to the product lifts and physical resets, they played a key role in us being able to get this done.”
The first phase of conversions at Bomgaars is complete as Orgill continues to provide ongoing assistance to the retailer on a variety of projects.
“Our partnership with Bomgaars represents exactly what Orgill strives to achieve with every customer—a relationship built on trust, responsiveness and results,” says Clay Jackson, Orgill’s executive vice president and COO.“We’re proud to have played a role in supporting their growth and continued expansion and this is a perfect example of how an effective partnership can truly turn vision into reality.”
