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• Acorn Stores
  Acorn Stores
  Acorn Stores was a chain clothing company in the United States. It was originally part of Michael L. Wallace Inc.-History:In November 2004, Christopher & Banks acquired Acorn from Gilmore Brothers, Inc...
  
  
• ADC Telecommunications
  ADC Telecommunications
  ADC Telecommunications was a communications company located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, a southwest suburb of Minneapolis. It was acquired by TE Connectivity in December 2010 and now ceases to exist as a separate entity...
  
  
• ATS Medical
  ATS Medical
  ATS Medical, Inc. , based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a developer and manufacturer of products and services for the cardiac surgery market. The publicly traded company was founded in 1992 by Manny Villafana, a noted entrepreneur in the cardiology/cardiac surgery industry...
  
  
• Alliant Techsystems
  Alliant Techsystems
  Alliant Techsystems Inc., most commonly known by its ticker symbol, ', is one of the largest aerospace and defense companies in the United States with more than 18,000 employees in 22 states, Puerto Rico and internationally, and 2010 revenues in excess of an estimated...
  
  
• Ameriprise Financial
  Ameriprise Financial
  Ameriprise Financial, Inc. is one of the leading diversified financial services companies in the U.S. Ameriprise Financial engages in business through its...
  
  
• Andersen Windows
• Arctic Cat
  Arctic Cat
  Arctic Cat is a North American manufacturer of snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles. The company was formed in 1960 and is based in Thief River Falls, MN. Many of Arctic Cat's vehicles are used today and can be accessorized to perform almost any job an outdoors-man might need...
  
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• Aveda
  Aveda
  Aveda Corporation is a company headquartered in Blaine, Minnesota, that manufactures skin care, cosmetics, perfume, hair care products, and trains students in cosmetology and esthiology at the Aveda Institutes in Minneapolis, New York City, Washington, DC, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and many other...
  
  
• ARS Business Solutions, LLC

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• Ballistic Recovery Systems
  Ballistic Recovery Systems
  Ballistic Recovery Systems is a manufacturer of aircraft ballistic parachutes .The company was formed in 1980 by Boris Popov after he survived a fall in a partly collapsed hang glider in 1975...
  
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• Bemidji Airlines
  Bemidji Airlines
  Bemidji Airlines is an American airline based in Bemidji, Minnesota USA. It operates domestic cargo flights, as well as extensive charter and air taxi services. Its main base is Bemidji Regional Airport, with a hub at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.-History:The airline was...
  
  
• Bemidji Woolen Mills
  Bemidji Woolen Mills
  Bemidji Woolen Mills, is a leading store and manufacturer of clothing and other items geared toward the outdoor living of the extreme north. In addition to their own products, they carry hundreds of items from over 35 manufacturuers. It is located in Bemidji, Minnesota.-History:Created in 1920 by...
  
  
• Best Buy
  Best Buy
  Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American specialty retailer of consumer electronics in the United States, accounting for 19% of the market. It also operates in Mexico, Canada & China. The company's subsidiaries include Geek Squad, CinemaNow, Magnolia Audio Video, Pacific Sales, and, in Canada operates...
  
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• Blue Moon Aviation
  Blue Moon Aviation
  Blue Moon Aviation is a charter passenger airline based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It operates charter services for VIPs and sports teams. Its main base is Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.- Fleet :...
  
  

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• Cambria
  Cambria (company)
  Cambria is the sole producer of quartz surfaces in the United States. They are located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with additional facilities in Le Sueur, Minnesota, Charlotte, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Ontario, Canada...
  
  
• Cargill
  Cargill
  Cargill, Incorporated is a privately held, multinational corporation based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2011, number 13 on the Fortune 500,...
  
  
• Caribou Coffee
  Caribou Coffee
  Caribou Coffee Company is a specialty coffee and espresso retailer, the second largest in the United States after Starbucks. Caribou sells coffee, tea, and bakery goods in 415 company-owned coffeehouses in 16 states and the District of Columbia, as well as 126 franchise locations worldwide.-...
  
  
• Carlson Companies
  Carlson Companies
  Carlson is a privately held international corporation in the hotel, restaurant, and travel industries. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, near Minneapolis, Carlson brands and services, including franchised operations, employ more than 170,000 people in more than 150 countries and territories...
  
  
• Cars-R-Coffins
  Cars-R-Coffins
  Founded in 1994, Cars-R-Coffins is a Minneapolis-based bicycle apparel brand featuring t-shirts, sweatshirts, socks, and other soft goods. Cars-R-Coffins gear is known by its distinctive logo consisting of a coffin with 4 wheels, inverted cross, and a license plate with the number 666.Over the...
  
  
• Canterbury Park
  Canterbury Park
  Canterbury Park is a horse racing track located in Shakopee, Minnesota, USA.It runs a meet that consists of 62 racing days from early May to Labor Day, generally holding scheduled races Thursday through Sunday, with racing added on several holidays throughout the meet. The track itself features a...
  
   Holding Company
• Central Boiler
  Central Boiler
  Central Boiler is an American manufacturer of wood- and corn-burning furnaces for residential and commercial applications. Established in 1984 by Dennis Brazier and located in Greenbush, Minnesota, the privately-owned company has promoted its product line as an environmentally-friendly renewable...
  
  
• Ceridian
  Ceridian
  Ceridian Corporation is a global business services company in the human resources, transportation and retail markets, serving businesses worldwide with employees in the USA, Canada, Europe and Mauritius. It was a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange until it was acquired in 2007...
  
  
• C. H. Robinson Worldwide
  C. H. Robinson Worldwide
  C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. is a Fortune 500 third-party logistics provider which provides domestic and international freight transportation and logistics services.-History:...
  
  
• CHS, Inc.
  CHS, Inc.
  CHS Inc. is a Fortune 100 organization owned by United States agricultural cooperatives, farmers, ranchers and thousands of preferred stock holders. Based in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, its activities include grain merchandising and transportation, sunflower and soybean processing, wholesale...
  
  
• Cirrus Design
  Cirrus Design
  The Cirrus Aircraft Corporation is an aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1984 by Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit aircraft....
  
  
• CodeWeavers
  CodeWeavers
  CodeWeavers is a company that sells a proprietary version of Wine called CrossOver, for running Windows applications on Mac OS X and Linux. The company was founded in 1996 as a consultancy, eventually moving entirely over to Wine development and support...
  
  
• CollegeRecruiter.com
• Control Data Corporation
  Control Data Corporation
  Control Data Corporation was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc....
  
  
• Creative Memories
• Cub Foods
  Cub Foods
  Cub Foods is a supermarket chain with seventy-three stores in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based SuperValu...
  
  

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• Datacard Group
  Datacard Group
  Datacard Group is one of the largest global providers of secure identification and card issuance solutions. Its customers, including banks, service bureaus, government agencies, corporations and other organizations, issue over 10 million cards every day. The company was founded in 1969 by Willis K...
  
  
• Datalink Corporation
  Datalink Corporation
  Datalink Corporation is an American data storage corporation with operations throughout the United States. The company engages in the design, installation, and support of data storage infrastructures that store, protect, and provide continuous access to information...
  
  
• Deluxe Corporation
  Deluxe Corporation
  Deluxe Corporation is one of the two largest check printers in the United States, and provides various personalized products and services to small businesses, financial institutions, and consumers...
  
  
• Department 56
  Department 56
  Department 56 is a manufacturer of holiday collectibles, ornaments and giftware, known for their lit Christmas village collections and their Snowbabies collection. It is owned by Enesco.-History:...
  
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• Digi International
  Digi International
  Digi International was founded in 1985 as DigiBoard and is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA. The company went public as Digi International in 1989 and is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol DGII. The company initially offered intelligent ISA/PCI boards with multiple...
  
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• Digi-Key
  Digi-Key
  Digi-Key is the fourth largest electronic component distributor in North America and a broad-line distributor of board level components. It ranks as the 8th largest electronic component distributor in the world. Ronald Stordahl founded the company in 1972 and its name was derived from the digital...
  
  
• Digital River
  Digital River
  Digital River is a U.S. e-commerce outsourcing company. The company’s platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, reporting and strategic marketing services...
  
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• Donaldson Company, Inc.
  Donaldson Company
  Donaldson Company, Inc. is a vertically integrated filtration company engaged in the production and marketing of products used as a means to improve performance efficiency and air quality...
  
  
• Driveline

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• Fair Isaac
  Fair Isaac
  Fair Isaac Corporation is a public company that provides analytics and decision making services—including credit scoring—intended to help financial services companies make complex, high-volume decisions.- History :...
  
  
• Famous Dave's
  Famous Dave's
  Famous Dave's Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que, formerly Famous Dave's Bar-B-Que Shack, is a chain of southern-style barbecue restaurants serving pork ribs, chicken, and beef brisket. Dave Anderson, an Ojibwe who served as the head of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs from 2004 to 2005, started the...
  
   of America Inc
• Fantasy Flight Games
  Fantasy Flight Games
  Fantasy Flight Games is a Roseville, Minnesota-based game company that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games. Fantasy Flight Publishing was founded in 1995 by its CEO, Christian T. Petersen. Since the release of its first game product in 1997, the company has been doing...
  
  
• Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc.
  Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc.
  The confectionery business segment is made up of many small companies, often with intertwined relationships and histories. Farley's & Sathers Candy Company, Inc. was created as an umbrella company to roll-up many small companies, brands and products under a common management team.Catterton...
  
  
• Fastenal
  Fastenal
  Fastenal Co is an American company based in Winona, Minnesota. Selling industrial and construction supplies and services including inventory management services, Fastenal refers to itself as an industrial supply company, but Reuters calls it an industrial distributor.-History:Founded in 1967 by...
  
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• Geek Squad
  Geek Squad
  The Geek Squad is a subsidiary of the Best Buy Company and is based in Richfield, Minnesota. It was originally founded on June 16, 1994 by Robert Stephens. The company offers various computer-related services and accessories for residential and commercial clients...
  
  
• General Mills
  General Mills
  General Mills, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 corporation, primarily concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The company markets many well-known brands, such as Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Colombo, Totinos, Jeno's, Pillsbury, Green...
  
  
• Genie Bazaar
• Graco
  Graco (fluid handling)
  Graco is a manufacturer of fluid-handling systems and products based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.-History:Russell Gray, a Minneapolis parking lot attendant, founded Gray Company, Inc. in 1926 with his brother Leil Gray to produce and sell Russell's air-powered grease gun, invented in response to cold...
  
  
• Grand Casinos
  Grand Casinos
  Grand Casinos was a casino operator that started out managing several casinos in Minnesota in 1990.The company ceased to exist when it was purchased by Hilton Hotels which then merged it with its other gaming properties to form Park Place Entertainment in 1998.-History:Grand owned a total of 8...
  
  
• Great Clips, Inc.
  Great Clips
  Great Clips is a hair salon franchise in the United States and Canada with over 5,000 locations across the United States and Canada. It is headquartered in Edina, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota...
  
  
• Griswold Signal Company
  Griswold Signal Company
  The Griswold Signal Company was a manufacturer of traffic signals and railroad grade crossing signals based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.The company was founded by Minnesota native Frank W. Griswold, one of thirteen children born to attorney and local landowner Franklin C...
  
  
• Greyhound Lines
  Greyhound Lines
  Greyhound Lines, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is an intercity common carrier of passengers by bus serving over 3,700 destinations in the United States, Canada and Mexico, operating under the well-known logo of a leaping greyhound. It was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA, in 1914 and...
  
  

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• MacSoft
  MacSoft Games
  MacSoft Games is a Plymouth, Minnesota, United States-based computer game publisher and porter specializing in porting Microsoft Windows computer games to the Macintosh...
  
  
• MAIR Holdings
  MAIR Holdings
  MAIR Holdings, Inc. was an airline holding company. Later in its life its headquarters were in Fifth Street Towers II in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. At an earlier time its headquarters were on the property of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and in Fort Snelling, an unincorporated...
  
  
• MN Airlines, LLC
• Maxfield Research
  Maxfield Research
  Maxfield Research is a Minnesota based real estate research company. Founded in 1983 by Lee Maxfield and business partner Gary Solomonson, Maxfield Research has grown into a small team-based company of research analysts, interns, and an office manager. The current President is Mary Bujold and Vice...
  
  
• Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Clinic
  Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice and medical research group specializing in treating difficult patients . Patients are referred to Mayo Clinic from across the U.S. and the world, and it is known for innovative and effective treatments. Mayo Clinic is known for being at the top of...
  
  
• Medtronic
  Medtronic
  Medtronic, Inc. , based in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the world's largest medical technology company and is a Fortune 500 company.- History :...
  
  
• MentorMate
• Mesaba Airlines
  Mesaba Airlines
  Mesaba Airlines is an American regional airline based in Eagan, Minnesota. The airline operates under Mesaba Aviation, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corporation...
  
  
• Minco Products, Inc
• Minneapolis-Moline
  Minneapolis-Moline
  Minneapolis-Moline was a large tractor and machinery producer based in Minnesota. It was the product of a merger between three companies in 1929: Minneapolis Steel & Machinery , Minneapolis Threshing Machine, and Moline Plow...
  
  
• Minnesota IMPLAN Group, inc
• Minnesota Life
  Securian Financial Group Inc.
  Securian Financial Group, Inc. is a mutual financial services corporation that is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded by Russell Dorr on August 6, 1880, it serves more than nine million clients in the United States and Puerto Rico, manages over $32 billion in assets, and provides over...
  
  
• MoneyGram
  MoneyGram
  MoneyGram International, Inc. is a US-based, Global Money transfer company, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It has Global Operations Centers in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota and Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Global Call Center Operations in Denver, Colorado and regional and local offices around the...
  
  
• Mosaic
  The Mosaic Company
  The Mosaic Company is a Fortune 500 company based in Plymouth, Minnesota. Mosaic offers two key crop nutrients—phosphate and potash—plus specialty products K-Mag®, MicroEssentials® and Pegasus™...
  
  
• Musicland
  Musicland
  The Musicland Group, Inc. was an entertainment company which ran Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company and the Media Play Superstore Chain. Musicland filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in January 2006. Trans World Entertainment which runs FYE, and sells CDs, DVDs, and video games, purchased...
  
  

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• Nash Finch Company
  Nash Finch Company
  The Nash Finch Company is a Fortune 500 company based in Edina, Minnesota, United States. The company is involved in food distribution to private companies, primarily independent supermarkets, and military commissaries; and the operation of retail stores....
  
  
• Northern Tool and Equipment
• Northland Organic Foods Corporation
  Northland Organic Foods Corporation
  Northland Organic Foods Corporation is a global food and agricultural products company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1991, Northland is an award-winning innovator in the organic foods industry, specializing in the development, production, and international distribution of certified...
  
  
• Northwest Airlines
  Northwest Airlines
  Northwest Airlines, Inc. was a major United States airline founded in 1926 and absorbed into Delta Air Lines by a merger approved on October 29, 2008, making Delta the largest airline in the world...
  
  
• Northern Oil & Gas

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• Patterson Companies
  Patterson Companies
  Patterson Companies Inc is a medical supplies conglomerate primarily in the business of veterinary and dental products . Since 2003 it also distributes general medical rehabilitative devices like braces and wheel chairs...
  
  
• Pearson's Candy Company
  Pearson's Candy Company
  Pearson's Candy Company is a chocolate and confectionery manufacturer headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded as a confectionery distribution firm in 1909, the company began to manufacture its own products in 1912...
  
  
• Pentair
  Pentair
  Pentair, Inc. is a Golden Valley, Minnesota based company focused on water technologies and enclosures for electronic products. Its Water Technologies Group provides products and systems used worldwide in the movement, treatment, storage and enjoyment of water...
  
  
• PepsiAmericas
  PepsiAmericas
  PepsiAmericas, Inc. was the world's second-largest bottler of Pepsi-Cola products, and also contracted to produce beverages for Dr Pepper Snapple Group and smaller regional brands. PepsiAmericas had 19 bottling plants in the United States and had a presence in 11 countries in Central/Eastern...
  
  
• Petters Group Worldwide
  Petters Group Worldwide
  Petters Group Worldwide was a diversified company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota that was turned into a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme by its founder and CEO, Tom Petters. It currently has 3,200 employees and investments or full ownership in 60 companies, of which it actively managed 20, with offices...
  
  
• Pillsbury
• Polaris Industries
  Polaris Industries
  Polaris Industries is a manufacturer of snowmobiles, ATV, and neighborhood electric vehicles. Polaris is based in Medina, Minnesota, USA. The company also manufactures motorcycles through its Victory Motorcycles subsidiary and through the Indian Motorcycle subsidiary which it purchased in April...
  
  

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• Schwan Food Company
  Schwan Food Company
  The Schwan Food Company is a multibillion-dollar, privately owned company with 17,000 employees in the United States. Based in Marshall, Minnesota, the company sells frozen foods from home-delivery trucks, in grocery-store freezers, by mail and to the food service industry...
  
  
• Select Comfort
  Select Comfort
  Select Comfort is a U.S.-based manufacturer that manufactures the Sleep Number bed as well as foundations and bedding accessories. The company is based in Plymouth, Minnesota. In addition to its Minnesota headquarters, Select Comfort has manufacturing and distribution facilities in South Carolina...
  
  
• Sellner Manufacturing
  Sellner Manufacturing
  Sellner Manufacturing is the Faribault, Minnesota manufacturer of the Tilt-A-Whirl and other amusement park rides. Started by Herbert Sellner in 1926 and still family owned.-History:Herbert Sellner made lamps, toys and library tables...
  
  
• SimonDelivers
  SimonDelivers
  SimonDelivers, Inc. was an online grocery that primarily served the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, Rochester, Forest Lake, New Prague, Belle Plaine and Jordan, MN and western Wisconsin cities such as Hudson, New Richmond and River Falls...
  
  
• Slumberland Furniture
• Soo Line Railroad
  Soo Line Railroad
  The Soo Line Railroad is the primary United States railroad subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway , controlled through the Soo Line Corporation, and one of seven U.S. Class I railroads. Although it is named for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste...
  
  
• St. Jude Medical
  St. Jude Medical
  St. Jude Medical, Inc. is a $16 billion global medical device company, with headquarters in Little Canada, Minnesota, United States, a suburb of St. Paul. The company sells products in more than 100 countries and has over 20 operations and manufacturing facilities worldwide. Its principal...
  
  
• Strategic Name Development
  Strategic Name Development
  Strategic Name Development is a naming company co-founded in 1992 by William Lozito and Diane Prange. The company’s work spans from naming and nomenclature systems to brand architecture and brand name research....
  
  
• Summit Brewing Company
  Summit Brewing Company
  Summit Brewing Company is a regional craft brewery in St. Paul, Minnesota that brews a wide selection of popular beers. It is sometimes mistakenly believed to be a microbrewery, even though Summit's output is in the top 50 of breweries in the United States, approximately 80,000 barrels of beer per...
  
  
• SuperAmerica
• Supercuts
  Supercuts
  Supercuts is a hair salon franchise with over 2,000 locations across the United States. The company was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975, by Geoffrey M. Rappaport and Frank E. Emmett. The company's first location, which is still in existence, is in Albany, California. Its headquarters...
  
  
• Supervalu
  Supervalu (United States)
  SuperValu Inc. is a United States grocery retailer and distributor. The corporation, headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has been in business for over a century. It is the third-largest food retailing company in the United States , and ranks #51 on the Fortune 100 list.On June 2, 2006,...
  
  

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• TCF Bank
  TCF Bank
  TCF Bank is the wholly owned banking subsidiary of TCF Financial Corporation, a bank holding company headquartered in Wayzata, Minnesota. TCF Bank is nationally chartered and operates 440 bank branches....
  
  
• TCF Financial Corporation
  TCF Financial Corporation
  TCF Financial Corporation is a bank holding company based in Wayzata, Minnesota, USA, employing more than 7,300 people. The holding company consists of several wholly owned subsidiaries including its principal subsidiary, TCF Bank, a nationally chartered bank. In the third quarter of 2010, the...
  
  
• Target Corporation
  Target Corporation
  Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's...
  
  
• Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
  Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
  Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is a Fortune 500 financial services organization with dual corporate headquarters based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Appleton, Wisconsin...
  
  
• Toro
  Toro (company)
  The Toro Company is an American manufacturer of turf maintenance equipment , snow removal equipment and water-saving irrigation systems for golf courses, sports fields, public green spaces, commercial and residential lawns, and agricultural fields...
  
  
• Travelers Companies
• Thomson Reuters
  Thomson Reuters
  Thomson Reuters Corporation is a provider of information for the world's businesses and professionals and is created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, New York City, USA...
  
  

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• U.S. Bancorp
  U.S. Bancorp
  U.S. Bancorp is a diversified financial services holding company, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the fifth largest commercial bank in the United States based on $330 billion in assets. U.S. Bank ranks as the sixth largest bank in the U.S. based on...
  
  
• Unicel
  Unicel
  Unicel was a brand of mobile phone service from Rural Cellular Corporation. Service was provided in northern Minnesota, northern New England, Mississippi, Alabama, eastern Washington and Oregon, and adjacent areas. The company was headquartered in Alexandria, Minnesota. Until 2005, RCC also...
  
  
• Uni-Systems
  Uni-Systems
  Uni-Systems, LLC is a design, construction, and consultation engineering firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota specializing in kinetic architecture, or movable, mechanized structures designed to adapt to individual structures’ needs...
  
  
• United Hardware Distributing Company
  United Hardware Distributing Company
  United Hardware Distributing Co. is a dealer-owned corporation based in Plymouth, Minnesota which provides distribution services for about 610 member-owned stores, the majority of which operate under the Hardware Hank trade name. In addition, the company services about 800 other stores owned by...
  
  
• UnitedHealth Group
  UnitedHealth Group
  UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is a diversified health and "well-being" company. Headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, UnitedHealth Group offers a spectrum of products and services through two operating businesses: United Healthcare and Optum. Through its family of subsidiaries and divisions,...
  
  

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• Warner Connect
• Watkins Incorporated
  Watkins Incorporated
  Watkins Incorporated is a manufacturer of health remedies, baking products, and other household items. The entire catalog includes 400 products. It is based in Winona, Minnesota, and largely relies on an independent sales force of 25,000 people to distribute its products...
  
  
• Wilsons Leather
  Wilsons Leather
  Wilsons Leather was a U.S. leather retailer, selling products such as jackets, belts, shoes, handbags, and gloves. At its peak in 2002, the Minneapolis-based retailer had 763 stores in 46 states and Canada.-History:...
  
  
• World Wide Pictures
  World Wide Pictures
  World Wide Pictures is a film distributor and production company established as a subsidiary of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1951...
  
  

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• Xcel Energy
  Xcel Energy
  Xcel Energy, Inc. is a public utility company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. Primary services are electricity and natural gas...