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Stock + Field Rebranded As R.P. Home & Harvest

R.P. Lumber acquired all 22 Stock + Field locations through a bankruptcy process this past spring.

HOMER GLEN, IL — Stock + Field in Homer Glen has been renamed R.P. Home & Harvest, according to a release from R.P. Lumber Co., Inc., which owns the business.

R.P. Lumber acquired all 22 Stock + Field locations through a bankruptcy process this past spring, the release states. The business is undergoing interior, exterior and online rebranding, which will finish up in October.

The stores were first founded in 1964 as Big R stores; Home & Harvest will continue to serve customers "by providing quality products essential to rural lifestyles at affordable prices," according to a release.

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R.P. Lumber Co., Inc., was founded in 1977, and operates 74 full-service hardware and building material stores in Illinois, Missouri, Wyoming and Iowa, the business said in a release.

“We primarily serve small and medium size communities,” Chairman and CEO Robert Plummer said in a release. “Retailers like us can often be one of the top employers and sales tax generators in the area. We saw an opportunity to breathe life into these economies and keep good, hardworking people employed."

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R.P. Home & Harvest will also offer an e-commerce platform, offering over 100,000 products, which will launch soon, according to a news release.

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