Made in Minnesota
Glass-enclosed, elevated walkways. It might surprise you, but a lot of products you use every day were developed right here in Minnesota. The land of 10,000 lakes is also the land of 10,000 innovators
Locally Grown Goods
- Aveda beauty and wellness products
- Betty Crocker baking goods
- Bisquick
- Bundt cake pan
- Caribou Coffee
- Dairy Queen ice cream treats
- Green Giant vegetables
- Honey Crisp apples
- Indoor shopping mall (Southdale Center)
- Jucy Lucy burgers
- Magnetic Poetry
- Milky Way, 3 Musketeers and Mars bars
- Minnetonka Moccasins
- Mobile refrigeration
- NERF Ball
- Wearable pacemaker
- Polaris snowmobiles
- Post-it notes
- Rollerblades
- Wet/dry sandpaper
- Scotch tape
- SPAM
- Toastmaster toaster
- Tonka trucks
- Toro
- Twister
- General Mills products
- Wheaties cereal
- Red Wing Shoes
- Zubaz
Powerhouse Businesses
With 17 Fortune 500 companies (2024), Minnesota's business community thrives globally.
- UnitedHealth Group (4)
- Target (37)
- CHS (97)
- Best Buy (100)
- U.S. Bancorp (107)
- 3M (134)
- General Mills (203)
- C.H. Robinson Worldwide (233)
- Land O'Lakes (245)
- Ameriprise Financial (254)
- Ecolab (269)
- Xcel Energy (302)
- Hormel Foods (343)
- Thrivent Financial (405)
- Polaris Industries (431)
- Securian Financial (462)
- Fastenal (488)
(tcbmag.com, 2024)
Many Minnesota Businesses Received the Equality 100 Award in the 2023 Corporate LGBTQ Equality Index.
- 3M Co.
- Ameriprise Financial Inc.
- Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
- Cargill Inc.
- Carlson Inc.
- Deluxe Corp.
- Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Ecolab Inc.
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Fredrikson & Byron
- General Mills Inc.
- Great River Energy
- Hormel Foods Corp.
- Medtronic PLC
- Piper Sandler & Co.
- RBC Wealth Management
- Securian Financial Group Inc.
- Turnberry Solutions Inc.
- U.S. Bancorp
- UnitedHealth Group Inc.
- Xcel Energy Inc.
(hcr.org, 2023)
