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
- 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 16 Fortune 500 companies (2022), Minnesota's business community thrives globally.
- UnitedHealth Group (6)
- Target (39)
- Best Buy (74)
- 3M (95)
- CHS (97)
- U.S. Bancorp (117)
- C.H. Robinson Worldwide (185)
- General Mills (200)
- Supervalu (201)
- Land O'Lakes (212)
- Ecolab (215)
- Ameriprise Financial (249)
- Xcel Energy (274)
- Hormel Foods (328)
- Thrivent Financial (351)
- Polaris Industries (476)
(TwinCities.com, 2022)
Many Minnesota Businesses Recieved High Marks in the 2019 Corporate LGBTQ Equality Index.
- 3M
- Allianz
- Best Buy
- Cargill
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Ecolab
- Fredrickson & Byron
- General Mills
- RBC Wealth Management
- Robins Kaplan
- Target
- UnitedHealth Group
- U.S. Bancorp
- Xcel Energy Inc.
( ALL RECEIVED 100% )
