Central South Dakota News

Buche Ace Hardware is celebrating three company milestones throughout the month of November.

GF Buche Company, Buche Ace Hardware's parent company -- which “owns and operates grocery, convenience, auto parts and hardware/lumber stores, along with fast food restaurants in 19 locations in 11 different communities throughout South Dakota” -- is celebrating its 117th anniversary. Buche Ace Hardware's Winner location is celebrating its grand opening, the Sisseton and Martin locations are celebrating their one-year anniversaries and the Pine Ridge location is celebrating its third year being open.

Each location meets the needs of its local community by offering the products and services that customers come to expect from a full-service Ace Hardware store. That includes solutions to everyday home needs and a wide selection of high-quality products in areas including paint, lawn and garden, tools, power tools, automotive, housewares, plumbing, hardware, electrical, cleaning and outdoor living.

The Winner location provides expert specialty services in the areas of paint color matching, wire cutting, rope cutting, chain cutting, auto key programming and cutting, screen repair, hunting and fishing licenses, acrylic sheet cutting, glass repair, STIHL power equipment repair, glass cutting, grill maintenance and repair, delivery and assembly, small engine repair and key cutting.

The Sisseton location has a farm and ranch department and an RV and marine department. It also offers services in the areas of delivery and assembly, STIHL power equipment repair, auto key programming and cutting, paint color matching, acrylic sheet cutting, key cutting, live bait, propane refill and exchange, hunting and fishing licenses, screen repair, rentals, blade sharpening, small engine repair and glass cutting.

The Martin location offers services in the areas of hunting and fishing licenses, auto key programming and cutting, carpet cleaning rentals, screen repair, lumber and building materials, delivery, key cutting, STIHL power equipment repair, paint color matching, rentals, acrylic sheet cutting, propane refill and exchange, glass cutting, contracting center and glass repair.

The Pine Ridge location offers services in the areas of live bait, propane refill or exchange, assembly, hunting and fishing licenses, paint color matching, auto key programming and cutting, and key cutting.

Each of these locations offers customers thousands of essential products and supplies, including those from acclaimed brand names such as STIHL, Traeger, Weber, Toro, EGO, YETI, Milwaukee, Benjamin Moore, Big Green Egg, Magnolia Home, DeWalt, Clark + Kensington, Scotts and more.

RF Buche has been the GF Buche company president since 2000 and is the great-grandson of Gus "GF" Buche, who founded the company in 1905 in Lake Andes, South Dakota. The company owns and manages stores in Gregory, Mission, Oacoma, Pine Ridge, Sisseton and Wagner, as well as a CashSmart location in Scotland. Company convenience stores can be found in Lake Andes, Mission, Wagner and White River, as well as a Buche's Gus Stop location in Wanblee. The company also owns individual Taco John's and Buche Auto Parts locations.

Information for individual locations can be found on the Facebook pages for Buche Ace Hardware's Sisseton, Pine Ridge and Winner locations. The Buche Ace Hardware website has information on its rewards program. More information regarding the grocery store and other related businesses can be found on the Buche Foods website.

Ace Hardware is the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the world, with 5,600 locally owned and operated hardware stores in approximately 70 countries. Based out of Oak Brook, Illinois, Ace and its subsidiaries oversee an expansive network of distribution centers in the U.S., with additional distribution capabilities in China, Panama and the United Arab Emirates.

Since 1924, Ace has become a community staple worldwide, known to many as "the place with the helpful hardware folks." More information can be found at AceHardware.com or Newsroom.AceHardware.com.