What began as a single build-it-yourself product out of a garage in Eagan has grown to a billion-dollar multi-channel retailer with 130 stores. Northern Tool + Equipment is celebrating more than 40 ...

Don Kotula, the founder of Northern Tool and Equipment, died on Saturday at the age of 78. Don Kotula, founder of Burnsville-based Northern Tool + Equipment uses the company's original log splitter ...

Launched by Don Kotula in 1981 as a mail-order business that offered a patented log splitter design, Northern Tool & Equipment moved into brick-and-mortar retail later that year, expanded online in ...

Any given garage or workshop can house a multitude of different small, diesel engine-powered implements, such as log splitters. The annoying thing about these many small engines is that, much like the ...