Bachman's Inc.

What Bachman's Inc. does

Bachman's Inc. is a privately held, family-owned retail garden center and floral company founded in 1885 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company operates six full-line retail garden centers across the Twin Cities metro area (Minneapolis/Lyndale, Apple Valley, Maplewood, Plymouth, Eden Prairie, and Fridley), complemented by a 670-acre farm and greenhouse operation in Lakeville, Minnesota that produces many of the plants, flowers, trees, shrubs, and landscaping products sold in its stores. Beyond retail, Bachman's runs a wholesale nursery and hardscapes business, professional landscaping and garden services, custom floral design for weddings and special events, corporate and sympathy floral services, and fundraising programs for schools and nonprofits. Customers are primarily residential homeowners in the Twin Cities metro, with secondary segments in wedding/event, corporate, and wholesale landscape professional buyers.

The company generates revenue through three principal streams: one-time retail product sales of fresh flowers, indoor plants, garden plants, trees, shrubs, lawn and garden supplies, outdoor living items, and gift/home merchandise across physical stores and e-commerce; professional services revenue from floral design (weddings, events, sympathy, corporate) and landscape design, installation, and garden coaching; and B2B wholesale revenue from nursery stock and hardscapes to landscape professionals. Distribution is omnichannel: six retail locations, an e-commerce site offering same-day local delivery and in-store pickup, nationwide shipping to select locations, a retail grocery partnership with Lunds & Byerlys, and a wholesale nursery channel. The company runs a Purple Perks loyalty program and produces educational content (plant library, care guides, USDA zone maps, how-to videos, workshops and events) to support customer engagement and drive year-round traffic. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; floral, landscaping, and wedding services are quote-based, and most products are priced individually at retail.

Bachman's is a closely held, multi-generational family business with no disclosed venture, private equity, or institutional ownership, no public listing, and no documented external funding rounds, acquisitions, or divestitures. Technical infrastructure is conventional retail and e-commerce; no AI/ML capabilities, proprietary models, or advanced technology platforms are stated. The fundamental operating assets are the 670-acre production farm, the six store locations, the Bachman's brand associated with 140+ years of continuous operation, and the multi-channel customer relationships built over multiple generations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market.

Name

Bachman's Inc.

Legal name

Bachman's Inc.

Website

https://bachmans.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1885

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Bachman's Inc. is a family-owned retail garden center and floral company founded in 1885, operating six retail locations and a 670-acre farm in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area, serving residential homeowners, wedding and event customers, businesses, and wholesale landscape professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Retail Garden Center and Floral

NAICS

Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Retailers (444240), Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production (1114), Nursery and Floriculture Production (11142)

SIC

Retail-Building Materials, Hardware, Garden Supply (5200)

akta.pro primary industry

Plants, Seeds & Nursery Retail (Garden Centers) (CRAIAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Seedling & Sapling Production (Bare-Root) (AFAMADAC), Forest Nurseries & Tree Seedling Production (IMAMAAAC), Container Gardening Design, Planting & Maintenance (HSAIAFAN)

Keywords

• Retail garden centers
• Floral design services
• Landscaping services
• Plants and nursery
• Gift and home decor

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Retail Product Sales: One-time purchase sales of fresh flowers, green and blooming houseplants, gifts, home décor, garden plants, trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, and garden supplies through 6 retail locations and e-commerce.
2. Floral Design Services: Custom floral arrangement services for weddings, special events, sympathy occasions, and corporate events.
3. Landscape & Garden Services: Residential and commercial landscaping, garden coaching, hardscapes, and nursery wholesale services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bachman's Inc. is a family-owned retail garden center, floral, and gift company founded in 1885. It operates six retail locations across the Twin Cities metro area and a 670-acre farm and greenhouses in Lakeville, Minnesota, where it grows many of the plants sold in its stores. The company sells fresh flowers, indoor plants, garden plants, trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, lawn and garden supplies, outdoor living items, and gifts, and provides landscaping, wedding florals, event florals, residential, business, fundraising, sympathy, and hardscape services.

Product overview

Bachman's is a retail florist and garden center company founded in 1885, operating a network of six retail locations in the Twin Cities metro area (Minneapolis, Apple Valley, Maplewood, Plymouth, Eden Prairie, and Fridley). The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of consumer products organized around fresh flowers, indoor plants, garden plants, trees and shrubs, lawn and garden supplies, outdoor living items, and home gifts. The product portfolio is complemented by extensive service offerings including professional landscaping and garden services, wedding floral design, special event florals, residential services, business/corporate services, fundraising programs, sympathy/memorial flowers, hardscapes, and nursery wholesale. The company grows its own plants on a 670-acre farm and greenhouses in Lakeville, Minnesota, and operates a loyalty program called Purple Perks. Additionally, the company provides educational resources including a Plant Library, Care Guides, and hosts workshops and events. All products are available through retail stores, online shopping with same-day local delivery, and in-store pickup.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fresh Flowers

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Lunds & ByerlyscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorBachman's flowers and plants are sold in Lunds & Byerlys retail grocery store locations, extending Bachman's retail presence into the grocery channel.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Bailey Nurseries: Minnesota-based wholesale nursery producer growing shrubs, trees, and perennials for garden centers nationwide. Comparable along Bachman's production/wholesale nursery division as a fellow Minnesota-based grower and nursery stock supplier.
• Gertens Garden Center: Family-owned garden center and nursery also operating in the Twin Cities metro area, offering plants, landscape services, and gifts. Directly comparable as a regional garden center competitor serving overlapping Twin Cities customer base with similar product/service mix.
• Tangletown Gardens: Independent garden center and landscape design firm in Minneapolis. Comparable as a Twin Cities local garden center competing for the same residential and landscape-services customer base.
• Wickman Garden Center: Twin Cities family-owned garden center selling plants, flowers, and garden décor with landscape services. Closely comparable mid-sized regional retail nursery competitor.

Regional players

• Pike Nurseries: Multi-store garden center chain in the Atlanta metro area offering plants, landscape services, and seasonal décor. Comparable as a regional multi-store garden center competitor with a similar retail-plus-services business model in a different geographic market.
• Armstrong Garden Centers: Multi-location independent garden center chain in California serving residential customers with plants, landscape services, and gifts. Comparable as a multi-store regional garden center retailer; operates in a different geography but mirrors Bachman's store-network model and service mix.

Others

• Kowalski's Markets: Twin Cities-based premium grocery chain that could potentially serve as a parallel flower/plant resale partner similar to the Lunds & Byerlys relationship. Adjacent comparison rather than direct competitor.

Broad incumbents

• Home Depot Garden Center: Largest U.S. home improvement retailer operating garden centers nationwide. Comparable as the dominant mass-market competitor in plants, trees, and garden supplies where Bachman's competes on assortment and pricing.
• 1-800-Flowers: National online floral and gift retailer with consumer brand reach well beyond any regional florist. Comparable as a competitor in the floral delivery and gift segment, but at far greater geographic scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/shopbachmans
• Facebookfacebook.com/bachmansmn

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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