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Company Ticker Symbol 2011 Rank 2010 Revenue
(in mil.)
2010 Rank 2009 Revenue
(in mil.)
1-year rank change 1-year percent change 2010 percent return on revenue
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UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH 1 94,155.0 1 87,138.0 0 8.1 4.9
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Target Corp. TGT 2 67,390.0 2 65,357.0 0 3.1 4.3
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Best Buy Co. Inc. BBY 3 52,272.0 3 49,694.0 0 5.2 2.4
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Supervalu Inc. SVU 4 38,079.0 4 42,212.0 0 -9.8 -4.0
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3M Co. MMM 5 26,662.0 5 23,123.0 0 15.3 15.3
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U.S. Bancorp USB 6 18,148.0 6 16,668.0 0 8.9 18.3
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Medtronic Inc. MDT 7 15,834.0 7 15,451.0 0 2.5 20.7
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General Mills Inc. GIS 8 14,879.1 8 14,780.0 0 0.7 11.0
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Xcel Energy Inc. XEL 9 10,310.9 9 9,642.6 0 6.9 7.3
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Ameriprise Financial Inc. AMP 10 9,976.0 10 7,805.0 0 27.8 11.0
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C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. CHRW 11 9,274.3 11 7,577.2 0 22.4 4.2
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Mosaic Co. MOS 12 8,455.3 13 6,492.3 +1 30.2 23.0
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Hormel Foods Corp. HRL 13 7,414.8 12 6,533.7 -1 13.5 5.9
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Ecolab Inc. ECL 14 6,089.7 14 5,900.6 0 3.2 8.7
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St. Jude Medical Inc. STJ 15 5,164.8 17 4,681.3 +2 10.3 17.6
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Nash Finch Co. NAFC 16 4,992.0 15 5,212.7 -1 -4.2 1.0
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Alliant Techsystems Inc. ATK 17 4,789.7 16 4,816.0 -1 -0.5 6.3
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Valspar Corp. VAL 18 3,396.7 20 2,911.9 +2 16.6 6.4
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Patterson Cos Inc. PDCO 19 3,344.6 19 3,204.5 0 4.4 6.7
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Pentair Inc. PNR 20 3,030.8 21 2,692.5 +1 12.6 6.7
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Regis Corp. RGS 21 2,330.1 22 2,409.7 +1 -3.3 2.1
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Fastenal Co. FAST 22 2,269.5 24 1,930.3 +2 17.6 11.7
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Donaldson Co. Inc. DCI 23 2,086.9 25 1,699.0 +2 22.8 9.5
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Polaris Industries Inc. PII 24 1,991.1 27 1,565.9 +3 27.2 7.4
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The Toro Co. TTC 25 1,742.2 28 1,514.6 +3 15.0 5.7
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OneBeacon Insurance Group OB 26 1,668.5 23 2,378.3 -3 -29.8 7.1
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TCF Financial Corp. TCB 27 1,507.9 29 1,484.0 +2 1.6 9.7
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Imation Corp. IMN 28 1,460.9 26 1,649.5 -2 -11.4 -10.8
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Deluxe Corp. DLX 29 1,402.2 30 1,344.2 +1 4.3 10.9
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H.B. Fuller Co. FUL 30 1,356.2 31 1,234.7 +1 9.8 5.2
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Otter Tail Corp. OTTR 31 1,119.1 35 1,039.5 +4 7.7 -0.1
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Life Time Fitness Inc.
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LTM 32 912.8 37 837.0 +5 9.1 9.2
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Allete Inc. ALE 33 907.0 38 759.1 +5 19.5 8.3
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G&K Services Inc.
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GKSR 34 823.6 36 863.5 +2 -4.6 3.1
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Lawson Software Inc. LWSN 35 745.1 40 713.5 +5 4.4 10.2
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Graco Inc. GGG 36 744.1 43 579.2 +7 28.5 13.8
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Tennant Co. TNC 37 667.7 42 595.9 +5 12.0 5.2
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Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. BWLD 38 613.3 45 538.9 +7 13.8 6.3
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Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO) FICO 39 610.1 41 618.8 +2 -1.4 10.3
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Select Comfort Corp. SCSS 40 605.7 44 544.2 +4 11.3 5.2
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Apogee Enterprises Inc. APOG 41 583.5 39 749.8 -2 -22.2 -1.8
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Piper Jaffray Cos. PJC 42 565.1 49 482.5 +7 17.1 4.3
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ValueVision Media Inc. VVTV 43 562.3 47 527.9 +4 6.5 -4.6
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American Medical Systems Holdings Inc. AMMD 44 542.3 48 519.3 +4 4.4 16.0
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Navarre Corp.
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NAVR 45 499.6 46 501.5 +1 -0.4 2.5
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Arctic Cat Inc. ACAT 46 475.2 51 457.4 +5 3.9 2.7
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Christopher & Banks Corp. CBK 47 450.4 50 457.4 +3 -1.5 -2.6
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Capella Education Co. CPLA 48 426.1 56 334.6 +8 27.3 14.4
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MTS Systems Corp. MTSC 49 391.0 55 381.2 +6 2.6 7.2
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Digital River Inc.
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DRIV 50 363.2 53 403.8 +3 -10.0 9.3
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Dolan Media Co. DM 51 311.3 60 262.9 +9 18.4 11.3
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Hutchinson Technology Inc. HTCH 52 307.2 54 396.6 +2 -22.5 -24.2
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Datalink Corp. DTLK 53 293.7 63 178.1 +10 64.9 0.8
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Caribou Coffee Co. Inc. CBOU 54 284.0 61 262.5 +7 8.2 3.3
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Hawkins Inc. HWKN 55 273.6 57 270.2 +2 1.3 8.8
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Techne Corp. TECH 56 272.6 59 264.8 +3 3.0 40.8
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Multiband Corp. MBND 57 265.6 58 268.8 +1 -1.2 5.5
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Digi International Inc. DGII 58 187.9 64 167.5 +6 12.2 5.4
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HickoryTech Corp. HTCO 59 162.2 66 139.1 +7 16.6 7.5
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Famous Dave's of America Inc. DAVE 60 148.3 67 136.0 +7 9.0 4.9
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Communications Systems Inc. JCS 61 120.1 70 109.8 +9 9.4 8.1
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Stratasys Inc. SSYS 62 117.1 72 98.4 +10 19.1 8.0
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Appliance Recycling Centers of America ARCI 63 108.2 71 101.3 +8 6.8 1.8
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Analysts International Corp. ANLY 64 106.7 65 143.2 +1 -25.5 -0.4
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Nortech Systems Inc. NSYS 65 99.8 76 79.9 +11 24.9 0.5
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Medtox Scientific Inc. MTOX 66 97.1 74 84.1 +8 15.4 3.1
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Granite City Food & Brewery Ltd. GCFB 67 89.3 73 85.8 +6 4.1 -5.1
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Rimage Corp. RIMG 68 88.7 75 83.2 +7 6.6 8.6
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FSI International Inc. FSII 69 87.2 84 63.1 +15 38.2 12.1
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Vascular Solutions Inc. VASC 70 78.4 80 68.4 +10 14.6 8.1
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Cardiovascular Systems Inc. CSII 71 71.5 85 61.1 +14 16.9 -24.0
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Synovis Life Technologies Inc. SYNO 72 68.6 87 58.2 +15 17.8 7.1
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SurModics Inc. SRDX 73 67.7 79 75.7 +6 -10.6 4.7
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Xata Corp. XATA 74 67.1 81 68.2 +7 -1.6 0.4
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Vital Images Inc. VTAL 75 59.7 86 58.2 +11 2.5 -1.6
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Northern Oil and Gas Inc. NOG 76 59.5 108 15.2 +32 292.1 11.6
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IntriCon Corp. IIN 77 58.7 88 51.7 +11 13.6 1.1
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CyberOptics Corp. CYBE 78 57.0 95 27.1 +17 110.4 5.5
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HMN Financial Inc. HMNF 79 55.5 82 65.9 +3 -15.7 -52.2
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SPS Commerce Inc. SPSC 80 44.6 37.7 - 18.2 6.5
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Rochester Medical Corp. ROCM 81 42.2 92 36.6 +11 15.2 -0.2
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Winmark Corp. WINA 82 41.2 91 37.3 +9 10.5 25.1
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Canterbury Park Holding Corp. CPHC 83 39.9 90 39.6 +7 0.8 -2.5
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Digital Angel Corp. DOC 84 37.7 89 42.6 +5 -11.4 -19.3
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Image Sensing Systems Inc. ISNS 85 31.7 100 24.6 +15 28.8 9.5
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Mocon Inc. MOCO 86 31.5 97 26.6 +11 18.4 14.3
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NVE Corp. NVEC 87 31.2 96 26.9 +9 16.1 42.6
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Insignia Systems Inc. ISIG 88 30.0 94 28.8 +6 4.3 25.4
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Angeion Corp. ANGN 89 29.0 99 25.5 +10 14.0 -2.9
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Clearfield Inc.
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CLFD 90 26.7 101 24.0 +11 11.3 6.9
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Lakes Entertainment Inc. LACO 91 24.6 98 26.2 +7 -6.2 -56.2
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Great Northern Iron Ore Properties GNI 92 20.9 106 14.8 +14 40.7 83.7
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WSI Industries Inc. WSCI 93 20.1 103 17.0 +10 18.3 2.9
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MakeMusic Inc. MMUS 94 17.1 104 16.4 +10 4.3 5.9
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Electromed Inc. ELMD 95 16.7 - - 5.7
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Ikonics Corp. IKNX 96 16.5 105 15.1 +9 9.2 6.7
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Aetrium Inc. ATRM 97 16.3 108 8.6 +11 88.0 -11.7
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Northern Technologies Intl. Corp.
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NTI 98 15.8 109 8.0 +11 96.8 19.5
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Urologix Inc.
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ULGX 99 13.5 107 14.7 +8 -7.9 -19.5
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Uroplasty Inc. UPI 100 12.8 109 11.8 +9 8.2 -30.6
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The Star Tribune 100 is a measure of the largest publicly held companies with headquarters in Minnesota ranked by revenue. Data presented also include each company's total profits from continuing operations, assets and market capitalization (taken on March 30). The research excludes closely held companies, which usually do not disclose financial data; cooperatives and fraternal benefits organizations, and local over-the-counter stocks.

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