Minneapolis, Minnesota

:This article is about the city in Minnesota, USA. There are two other cities named Minneapolis in the United States: Minneapolis, Kansas and Minneapolis, North Carolina. For an overview of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, see Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Companies headquartered in Minneapolis

Minneapolis's economy has been historically based on the adjoining agricultural area, though that has changed as you can see from the list of companies below:

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• Target Corporation
• USBancorp
• Marshall Field's, a division of the May Department Stores Company
• Xcel Energy,
• Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, formed by the 2001 merger of Minneapolis-based Lutheran Brotherhood and Appleton, Wisconsin-based Aid Association for Lutherans.
• Augsburg Fortress, the official publisher of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Ameriprise Financial, Inc
• RBC Dain Rauscher
• Fair Isaac Corporation
• Piper Jaffray
• Graco
• 3M formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company until 2002
• General Mills is based in Golden Valley, Minnesota, though it lists Minneapolis as its headquarters address.