Acme Tools was founded by George Kuhlman in 1948 as a small electric motor repair shop in downtown Grand Forks, North Dakota. The business was named "ACME" because it represented the highest level or degree attainable - the peak of perfection. The core values back then were simple, offer customers the highest quality products at competitive prices, backed by superior professional service and support. Now three generations and more than 70 years later, this family owned business has grown to become a major retailer of tools and equipment.

Today, Acme Tools celebrates 70 years of experience serving customers and continues to be one of the premier retailers of tools and equipment with some of the largest first-class showrooms in the nation and the best online tool store in e-commerce. With ten locations in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, Acme Tools serves the contractor, woodworker and do-it-yourselfer with a wide selection of tools and equipment from all the major manufacturers.

In 1985 Acme Tools launched a mail order catalog business selling woodworking equipment from print ads in national trade magazines. Later, we pioneered a national catalog business shipping woodworking and construction products throughout the United States and abroad as "Tool Crib of the North."

In the spring of 1999, Acme Tools was one of the first to launch a website selling tools and equipment online. Later that same year, the Internet and catalog businesses were sold to Amazon.com. For the next ten years Acme Tools focused on expanding its Upper Midwest locations in Minnesota and Iowa.

In early 2010 Acme Tools launched a new e-commerce site to provide customers with the renewed convenience of shopping online. The new website offers more than 50,000 products online at AcmeTools.com.

Whether you shop in-store, on your smartphone or from our catalog, we hope to save you time and money by serving as a source for products to make your job or project easier and more enjoyable. If there's an item you don't see on our website, in our catalog or in our stores, chances are we stock it or can get it for you. Just ask and we will do our best to find it for you.

If you're new to Acme Tools, we look forward to the opportunity to serve you; if you're already a customer, as always, we thank you for your business!