Dakota Fence Company

In 1972, while in high school, Dave Currier started from his parent’s garage in Fargo, North Dakota a fence business that later became Dakota Fence Company (“Dakota Fence”). The goal of Dave Currier was to create a professional fence construction company throughout North Dakota, providing great finished products with excellent service at a fair price. The company has never compromised from those original standards. With outstanding employees (our “Blue Family”), repeat customers and strong partnerships with suppliers, Dakota Fence evolved from a one-person operation in a back garage to open offices in Bismarck, North Dakota (1977), Minot, North Dakota (1980), and Williston, North Dakota (2012). In February of 2022, Town & Country Fence in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota joined forces with Dakota Fence for Dakota Fence’s first Minnesota location. Today, Dakota Fence remains headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota and is one of the largest fence companies in the United States.

In 1977, Dave Currier was asked to set-up temporary traffic control for a road contractor in Fargo. Always looking to expand the business, Dave bought the necessary materials and rented them to the road contractor – that first rental started what later became 3D Specialties, Inc. (“3D Specialties”), rightly named that for Dave, Dan (Dave’s brother) and Dick (Richard, Dave’s father), both of which played a guiding hand in growing the business. 3D Specialties now operates in all the Dakota Fence North Dakota offices providing traffic control, permanent sign, and guardrail installation to keep the traveling public safe.

Also in 1977, Dick Currier saw a need for a company to install playground equipment at schools and parks. Dakota Fence partnered with Landscape Structures, Inc. (“LSI”) from Delano, Minnesota. Today, Dakota Fence’s original playground business is its own company, Dakota Playground, Inc., and continues to be part of the DFC Company family of companies.

In 2015, Joe Currier, John Currier and Amy Mickelson, the sons and daughter of Dave Currier, joined the family business as its next generation of leaders and owners of the business. With the tremendous platform built by those that came before them, and always having that entrepreneurial spirit like their father, the holding company DFC Company was created in 2017 to house the then current operating entities (Dakota Fence, 3D Specialties, and Dakota Playground) and to allow for future expansion.

In 2021, Joe, John and Amy created Sign Solutions USA to house its growing traffic sign manufacturing business, which much like Dakota Fence, started from a small footprint, to now operate from a 100,000 square foot, state of the art manufacturing facility in West Fargo, North Dakota. Today, Sign Solutions USA is one of the largest flat sheet traffic sign manufacturers in the United States, having sold signs in 43 states and 3 Canadian provinces.

Seeing the success of Sign Solutions USA, in 2021 the park and recreation portion of Dakota Playground (site amenities, flag poles, sports equipment, bleachers, etc.) was spun off into its own company, Park & Play USA, to sell those products throughout the United States.

We are very proud of what an idea in a garage in Fargo, North Dakota has become. Our record of continued growth and expansion of services offered is the product of our Blue Family employees. It is the people, our Blue Family, that make-up DFC Company and its operating companies and without our Blue Family employees, who are the best in the industry in their respective areas of the business, we would not be where we are today.