Peavey Mart, Canada’s largest farm and ranch retailer, will be expanding its national footprint to truly become a coast-to-coast brand when it opens its first store east of Ontario in September in Bedford, Nova Scotia, just outside of Halifax, Retail Insider has learned.
It will be the 90th location for the company which is headquartered in Red Deer, Alberta.
Jest Sidloski, Vice President of Marketing for Peavey Mart, said the company’s President and CEO, Doug Anderson, is an opportunist. “He wants to continue growing the brand across Canada – a proud Canadian organization, a proud Canadian retailer. The opportunity came up in that community where there was a location and demographics that fit the mold for a Peavey Mart.”
Peavey Marts offer a unique selection of agriculture, farm and ranch, pet, work wear, lawn and garden, hardware and homesteading supplies for those who enjoy a down-to-earth rural lifestyle.
A representative with Elad Canada says “Peavey Mart’s new store of 39,000sf will be a vibrant addition to Bedford Place, a 265,000 sf community shopping centre also anchored by Giant Tiger, Fit 4 Less (by GoodLife) and Dollarama. Elad Canada is extremely pleased to partner with Peavey Mart in their first store in Atlantic Canada.”
The company’s roots go back to 1967 in Canada when it started as National Farmway, a chain of “super farm markets” whose first location opened in Dawson Creek, BC. By 1975, the chain became known as Peavey Mart, a subsidiary of Peavey Company of Minneapolis. In 1984, the company returned to Canadian ownership and to this day remains 100 per cent Canadian and employee owned. In 2017, Peavey Industries LP acquired the TSC Stores banner, based in London, Ontario with stores operating in Ontario and Manitoba. In 2021 it converted all remaining TSC Stores to the Peavey Mart brand.
“We’re very agriculture focused. You’ll have all of your feeds and supplies for livestock and animals, you’ll have your garden centres, your growing goods. Anything for life in the country, or as a homeowner, you will find at a Peavey Mart.” said Sidloski.
Typically, Peavey Mart has been located in smaller more rural centres but in recent years two were opened in Winnipeg and one in Edmonton.
“What’s so great about those urban centres is that there is a shift for people, and this was especially true with COVID, of getting back to living in their backyards and growing their own foods, growing their own gardens, fixing and projects, and homesteading. We really became this lifestyle store even for people in large urban markets that shared that lifestyle,” said Sidloski.
The companies COO, Dave Simmonds had these final words “People on the east coast have been asking us to come that way for many years. We’ve heard your feedback and we are very excited and proud to be joining the east coast for the first time later this year. We look forward to meeting you soon, Nova Scotia”
