About Rice Companies | Building Partnerships and Communities

CRAFTING MEANINGFUL WORK

Since 1953 the team at Rice has been creating collaborative environments where construction is simplified, innovative, and enjoyable for all. Together, we are shaping spaces, building places, and elevating lives.

IMMERSIVE TEAMS AND INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS

Rice Companies has teams across the country and locations strategically positioned across the Midwest to provide opportunities for employees and service to clients. With seven locations in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin – our teams are ready to partner with you, understand your goals, and help you achieve success.

Family Forward

As a 3rd generation company, family is who we are, and who we will be in the future. Our team, clients and communities thrive when our success is measured in long term growth, not short-term gains.

Relationship Driven

We build partnerships and projects. Our goal is to earn our clients’ unwavering support to do business with us again and again.

Continuously Accountable

As a committed partner, our entire team believes in being held accountable for the services we provide long after each project is completed.

Remarkably Collaborative

We stand by our work. Our labor is 100% guaranteed with a limited lifetime warranty. We also check back in a year after the project is complete to ensure you are happy with the project and the building is living up to our high standards.

Passionately Innovative

We’re not afraid to take risks, challenge each other, or the status quo, in a continuous effort to improve our processes and our services for our clients.

BUILDING A LEGACY

1953

Jack Rice Establishes Company

First generation, Jack Rice, established the company at Rice Building Systems, Inc. in Tenstrike, MN..

Jack Rice establishes the company in Tenstrike, MN

1957

Butler relationship
begun

1967

The Rice family moved to Sauk Rapids, MN and established new headquarters

1978

Second-generation leadership when John Rice becomes Company President

2008

Third-generation leadership with Chris Rice as Company President

2013

Acquires Raske Builders and opens location in Glencoe, MN

2016

Rice Service is formally established as a division of Rice Companies

2018

Acquires Gosewisch Construction and opens location in Mankato, MN

2020

Expands another location in Fargo, ND

2023

Acquires Fred Rose Design and opens location in Cedar Falls, IA

2023

Expands to Sioux Falls, SD

Behind The Expertise

Our commitment to excellence drives us to deliver outstanding results on every project, backed by decades of experience and an unwavering focus on quality and innovation. We take pride in our ability to transform visions into reality, ensuring every build meets the highest standards.

155

PEOPLE

7,000

CONSTRUCTION AND SERVICE PROJECTS

7

LOCATIONS

SAFETY FIRST.
SAFETY ALWAYS.

Nothing is more important than people – and the safety of people. Our goal is simple – zero harm and zero lost time incidents to keep safety top of mind for everyone involved in the project.

Learn more about safety

A LEGACY CONTINUING

At Rice Companies, we believe in people and projects. That’s why we focus on building lasting parnterships with our clients while helping them grow, along with our employees and teams.

Building a legacy like yours takes more than just time and money. It takes dedication, passion, and most of all, hard work. As you consider the future of your business you’ve worked so hard for, think about all you’ve created. The relationships you’ve built with your employees and clients, the projects you had the opportunity to be part of, and the communities you’ve helped build. Those things will remain and live on through us.