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| Cargill |  | Cargill
15407 McGinty Road
Minnetonka, Minnesota 55440 | 2000 Sales: $47,602,000,000
2000 Earnings: $480,000,000
www.cargill.com |
You are looking at America's largest private corporation. Cargill isnt very well known, but they handle an incredible amount of commodities- processing and shipping them all over the world. See Close-up... | | Target |  | Target
777 Nicolett Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 | 2000 Sales: $36,903,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,264,000,000
www.target.com |
The name Dayton Hudson may not be familiar to you, but their most successful chain store Target probably is. They have 800 Target Stores across the U.S. See Close-up... | | SuperValu |  | SuperValu
11840 Valley View Road
Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344 | 2000 Sales: $20,339,000,000
2000 Earnings: $242,000,000
www.supervalu.com |
Supervalu didn't impress me very much when I saw it. But they distribute 17 billion worth of food and non-food items to independent grocers every year. So they are not to be ignored. See Close-up... | | UnitedHealth Group |  | UnitedHealth Group
9900 Bren Road East
Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343 | 2000 Sales: $21,122,000,000
2000 Earnings: $736,000,000
www.uhc.com |
A company that has tried to make it big in the HMO industry for 29 years. But it has suffered resignations and failed mergers. Still it is serving HMO's to 13 million Americans. See Close-up... | | 3M |  | 3M
3M Center
St. Paul, Minnesota 55144 | 2000 Sales: $16,724,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,782,000,000
www.3m.com |
3M is a master at inventing great materials. Scotch Tape, Post-It Notes, Scotch Guard, light-reflecting materials, circuit boards on film, fiberoptics and advanced ceramics- just to name a few. See Close-up... | | Best Buy |  | Best Buy
7075 Flying Cloud Dr.
Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55344 | 2000 Sales: $12,494,000,000
2000 Earnings: $347,000,000
www.bestbuy.com |
Best Buy is a great consumer electronics retailer. They sell everything from computers to cameras to computers, CDs and TVs. Circuit City and CompUSA are its biggest competitors. See Close-up... | | St. Paul Companies |  | St. Paul Companies
385 Washington St.
St. Paul, Minnesota 55102 | 2000 Sales: $8,607,000,000
2000 Earnings: $993,000,000
www.stpaul.com |
This is the oldest company in Minnesota. They are an insurance company providing property, liability, and life insurance. See Close-up... | | Pillsbury |  | Pillsbury
200 S. 6th Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 | 2000 Sales: $5,781,000,000
2000 Earnings: $Subsidiary
www.pillsbury.com |
Yes, this is where the Pillsbury dough boy lives. But this is also the home of Progresso Soup, Haagen-Daz Ice Cream, Totino's Pizza and Old El Paso. And its not even an American company anymore. See Close-up... | | Northwest Airlines |  | Northwest Airlines
2700 Lawn Oak Pkwy.
Eagan, Minnesota 55121 | 2000 Sales: $11,415,000,000
2000 Earnings: $256,000,000
www.northwestairlines.com |
Northwestern suffered a bad strike in 1998. But they are still the 4th largest airline in the industry. They have 400 planes with hubs in Minneapolis, Memphis, Detroit, and Tokyo. See Close-up... | | Honeywell |  | Honeywell
Honeywell Plaza
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408 | 2000 Sales: $
2000 Earnings: $Subsidiary
www.honeywell.com |
I have always known Honeywell as the home alarm systems company. But they make a lot of electromechanical instruments and sensors for industrial plants and planes as well as homes. See Close-up... | | U.S. Bancorp |  | U.S. Bancorp
601 Second Ave. South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 | 2000 Sales: $9,965,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,592,000,000
www.usbancorp.com |
Another major Midwestern bank with presence also in the West. U.S. Bank has 1,000 branches and 3,000 atm's in 17 states. See Close-up... | | Carlson Companies |  | Carlson Companies
701 Carlson Pky.
Minnetonka, Minnesota 55459 | 2000 Sales: $9,800,000,000
2000 Earnings: $Private
www.carlson.com |
A cool headquarters. I had never heard of these guys, but they are the ones who own T.G.I. Fridays, Radisson Hotels, Carlson Wagonlit travel agencies, and 4 cruise ships. See Close-up... | | General Mills |  | General Mills
Number One General Mills Blvd.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426 | 2000 Sales: $6,700,000,000
2000 Earnings: $614,000,000
www.generalmills.com |
Here is Big "G", one of the giants of the cereal industry. Kellogg's is still the biggest. But atleast General Mills still has the number one selling cereal- Cheerios. See Close-up... | | Nash Finch |  | Nash Finch
7600 France Ave. South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55435 | 2000 Sales: $4,015,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-2,000,000
www.nashfinch.com |
Nash Finch, located in suburban Minneapolis, is a wholesaler of food and comsumer products to 2,250 grocery stores. It has 90 of its own stores and serves military installations as well. See Close-up... | | Xcel Energy |  | Xcel Energy
414 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 | 2000 Sales: $11,409,000,000
2000 Earnings: $527,000,000
www.xcelenergy.com |
Northern States Power, in downtown Minneapolis, serves electricity and gas to parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and the Dakotas. Their electricity customers number 1.5 million while their gas customers are 500 thousand. See Close-up... | | Medtronic |  | Medtronic
7000 Central Ave NE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55432 | 2000 Sales: $5,014,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,098,000,000
www.medtronic.com |
Medtronic makes devices that interface with your body. They started out with pacemakers. But now are venturing into computer controlled pacemakers, neurostimulators and drug delivery devices. See Close-up... | | Imation |  | Imation
1 Imation Place
Oakdale, Minnesota 55128 | 2000 Sales: $1,234,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-4,000,000
www.imation.com |
Offspring of 3M. They make data storage devices- SuperDisks and tape drives. They also specialize in imaging applications (whatever that is). See Close-up... | | Ceridian |  | Ceridian
8100 34th Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55425 | 2000 Sales: $1,176,000,000
2000 Earnings: $100,000,000
www.ceridian.com |
Ceridian provides information and data services to the media industry, to human resources departments, and to the trucking industry. Ceridian creates a monolithic system that clients interface with through terminals or software. See Close-up... | | International Dairy Queen |  | International Dairy Queen
7505 Metro Blvd.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55439 | 2000 Sales: $460,000,000
2000 Earnings: $Subsidiary
www.dairyqueen.com |
Dairy Queen is a chain of 6,200 fast food restaurants in the U.S. serving their famous ice cream and grilled foods. The company is wholly onwed by Berkshier-Hathaway, the giant Warren Buffett investment entity. See Close-up... |
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