101 Top Minnesota Food and Beverage Companies and Startups of 2021

July 6, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best Minnesota based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Minnesota Food and Beverage Startups

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Kraft Heinz

Kraft Heinz

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The Kraft Heinz Company is the third-largest food and beverage company in North America

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Puris cultivates plant-based foods and ingredients from organic and non-GMO sources.

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Calyxt

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Calyxt is an Agbiotech company focused on developing crops with healthier characteristics

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Cargill

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Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services.

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Spoonshot

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Spoonshot is a developer of a personal discovery platform used to replicate human cognition in the food domain.

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Buffalo Wild Wings

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Sports-bar chain serving up Buffalo style chicken wings & other American pub food.

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Sow Good

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Sow Good is an emerging consumer products platform focused on manufacturing and marketing freeze-dried snacks, smoothies, and soups.

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Brother Justus Whiskey

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Brother Justus Whiskey offers handcrafted micro batches of single malt whiskeys, distilled from premium Minnesota malted barley.

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So Good So You

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So Good Brand is a Minnesota-based company and a producer of natural organic beverages and food products.

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Drake’s Organic

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Drake’s Organic Spirits is a online liquor marketplace that manufactures and sells organic spirits.

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General Mills

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General Mills is a food company that manufactures and markets branded consumer foods.

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ASPIRE Beverages

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Aspire Beverages produces all-natural sports drinks that enhance performance and contain health benefits.

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Local Crate

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Local Crate is a food and beverage delivery service company.

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Fybraworks Foods

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Fybraworks Foods is a new entrant in the substitute meat market, using fermentation and protein ingredients to replicate the taste.

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Canomiks

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Canomiks’ genomics, bioinformatics, and AI-based Product Superiority Platform helps companies create safe and efficacious products.

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Vēmos

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Vēmos is a payments and analytics company for the hospitality industry, connecting venues, brands and consumers in a single marketplace.

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Forever Ware

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Forever Ware specializes in offering eco-friendly takeout containers.

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Apparo

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Apparo is a food processing technology intended to process crops in order to maximize the yield of available nutrients.

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Get Bizzy Inc.

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Bizzy Coffee is for Busy People

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Seven Sundays

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Seven Sundays aims to promote healthy and enjoyable morning routines.

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Ecolab

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Ecolab is a global leader in water, hygiene, and energy technologies and services that provide clean water, safe food, and abundant energy.

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MyFormulary LLC

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MyFormulary is a Healthy Food MedTech Company with a patented food effectiveness recommendation tool backed by unbiased clinical studies.

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WholeMe

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WholeMe creates nutrient-dense, delicious, convenient foods.

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Flackers

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Flackers is a food company that provides nutritious, healthy and organic flax seeds.

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Veen

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Veen is a Finnish premium beverage brand focusing on waters and natural, unprocessed drinks.

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Ultra Green Packaging

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Ultra Green Packaging is providing comprehensive packaging options and plus made-to-order solutions for the food industry.

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Tattersall Distilling

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Tattersall Distilling is a destination micro-distillery and cocktail room specializing in craft distilleries in the country.

Hairless Dog Brewing

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Hairless Dog Brewing is a craft beer brand that offers truly alcohol-free products.

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Fafa’s Plats

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Fafa’s Plats is a leading fast casual food chain.

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Fair State Brewing

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Fair State Brewing is a brewing cooperative company producing craft beers.

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Far North Spirits

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Far North Spirits operates as a craft distillery specializing in field-to-glass, hand-crafted spirits.

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Häagen-Dazs

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An ice cream brand, established by Reuben and Rose Mattus in the Bronx, New York, in 1961.

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301 INC

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301 INC is an energetic and enthusiastic team looking to collaborate with emerging food brands.

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Restaurant Technologies

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Restaurant Technologies creates safer, smarter foodservice kitchens through cooking oil and hood and flue management solutions.

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XOXO Kitchen

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XOXO Kitchen is a home-based family site that encourages users to invite friends who are welcome in their kitchen.

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Rochester Mills

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Rochester Mills serving comfort food paired with handcrafted beers.

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Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator

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Aims on finding the best entrepreneurs working on solutions in food tech, food supply chain and AgTech. Partnered with Cargill and Ecolab.

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Mighty Spark Food

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Mighty Spark Food is a producer of craft meat products intended to make meals healthy and easy to prepare.

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MOM Brands

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Lakeville, Minn.-based breakfast cereal maker

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Spee-Dee Delivery Service

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A Food Delivery Service platform.

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Cub Foods

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Cub Foods has been bringing more to your table by providing the best grocery value to our customers.

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Bauhaus Brew Labs

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Bauhaus Brew Labs is a family of musicians, scientists, artists and above all, beer lovers, aiming to reinvigorate.

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Dessert Holdings

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Dessert is manufacturer of high-quality frozen desserts for retail and foodservice customer.

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Rosen’s Diversified

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Rosen’s Inc. leads the industry in developing innovative and environmentally responsible solutions for today’s agribusiness.

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Johnson Brothers Liquor Co

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Johnson Brothers Liquor Co is a wine, spirits and beer distributor.

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Angie’s Artisan Treats

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The makers of Angie’s Boomchickapop kettle corn.

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Downs Food Group

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Downs Food Group is a food production company offering canned and refrigerated meat products.

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Food Dudes Delivery

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Food Dudes Delivery provides restaurant delivery and marketing services.

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Sargento Foods Inc.

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Sargento Foods Inc.is an food producer known for its cheese.

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Love Your Melon

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Love Your Melon is an apperal brand.

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Ridley

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Ridley Inc. is a commercial animal nutrition companies in North America.

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Lucid Brewing

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Lucid Brewing produces craft beer that is drinkable is no longer unthinkable.

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Wellmune

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Wellmune is a natural food, beverage, and supplement ingredient, that strengthens the immune system.

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St. James Hotel

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St. James Hotel is a hospitality company that provides restaurant and spa services.

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Grain Millers Inc.

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Grain Millers is a food production company that manufactures organic whole grain ingredients.

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Schwan Food

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The Schwan Food Company began delivering ice cream to isolated rural families in 1952.

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Punch Pizza

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Punch Pizza is a chain specializes in traditional Neapolitan pizza.

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RJ Schinner Co., Inc.

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RJ Schinner Co. is a wholesale company that offers foodservice, paper, and grocery supplies.

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S.T. Specialty Foods

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S.T. Specialty Foods produces pasta and rice dinners.

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JonnyPops

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JonnyPops is produces wholesome and better-for-you frozen treats, using real fruit as the main ingredient.

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Taher, Inc.

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Taher is a food production company that provides k-12 school lunch management and campus dining services.

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QualiTech

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QualiTech is a food production company specializing in animal and plant nutrition products.

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Appert’s Foodservice

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Appert’s Foodservice is a broadline distributor and foodservice processor servicing restaurants and institutions in Greater Minnesota.

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Faribault Foods

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Faribault Foods is a manufacturer of canned beans and vegetables.

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Bernatello’s Pizza, Inc

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Bernatello’s Pizza is a food production company that provides mozzarella cheese.

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pepr

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Pepr is an online platform that provides food cost management software for restaurants on multiple platforms.

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Immaculate Baking

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Immaculate Baking Company is engaged in the production and sale of baked goods for restaurants, airplanes, supermarkets, and club stores.

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Bailey Nurseries

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Bailey Nurseries is a wholesale company specializing in trees, perennials, annuals, and roses.

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Lehmann Farms

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Lehmann Farms is a food and beverages company offering gourmet foods.

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Hormel Health Labs

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Hormel Health Labs is a nutrition and food and beverage company located in 1 Hormel Place.

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Robinsonfresh

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Robinson Fresh best fruits and vegetables, but we go beyond supplying fresh produce to offering an abundance of fresh solutions.

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Sweet Harvest Foods

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Sweet Harvest Foods offers high quality, great tasting honey, peanut butter, and syrup products.

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Nomi

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Nomi is a producer of a refrigerated snack bar used to offer nutritious snacks.

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Tastefully Simple

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Tastefully Simple is a food and beverages company.

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Bernick’s

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Bernick’s is a wholesale company that provides Pepsi products, beverages, vending products, and food services.

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Midwest Home Brewing and Wine Making Supplies

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Midwest Home Brewing and Wine Making Supplies is a food and beverage company located in Minneapolis.

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Henry’s Foods

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Henry’s Foods is diversified from distributing candy and tobacco products to include the distribution of full line food service.

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NutriSource Pet Foods

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NutriSource Pet Foods is a pet food manufacturer.

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Deli Express

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Deli Express is a food and beverage company.

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Log House Foods

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Log House Foods is a long standing family owned and operated business that produces quality baking and snack items.

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The National Food Lab

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The National Food Lab is a consulting and testing company supporting the food and beverage industry.

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CatchFood

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Get Food Delivered, Pick-Up & Dine in From Your Favorite Restaurants.

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Mydrink Beverages

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Mydrink Beverages is a food and beverage company located in St Paul.

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United Sugars

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United Sugars, reliability and in-spec sugar go hand-in-hand. We make sure you have exactly the sugar you need

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Schwan’s Company

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Schwan’s Company is a U.S. manufacturer and marketer of quality foods.

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Russ Davis Wholesale

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Russ Davis Wholesale is a wholesale company providing fruits and vegetables.

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Live Better Brands

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A Minneapolis-based maker of natural tortilla chips and crackers

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Bachman’s Inc.

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Bachman’s is a retail company that provides flowers and floral gifts.

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Man Cave Craft Meats

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Man Cave Craft Meats is a food chain with their own recipes of craft meat.

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Pan-O-Gold Baking Company

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Pan-O-Gold Baking Company is a food production company offering bread, buns, bagels, muffins, donuts, and rolls.

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Northern Technologies International Corporation (NTIC”)”

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Northern Technologies International Corporation is a packaging and containers company that produces corrosion inhibitors and removers.

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Mayflower Distributing

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Mayflower Distributing is a supplies helium, nitrogen, balloons, party items, and foodservice items to florists, retailers, and shops.

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Phillips Distilling Company

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Phillips Distilling Company produces a wide range of spirits like Gin, vodka, whiskey, liqueur, tequila and rum.

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Surly Brewing Co.

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Surly Brewing Co. is a food & beverages company specializing in crafted beer and hospitality products.

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Solero

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Solero is a producer of natural and organic frozen fruit bars and pops.

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Premium Waters

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Premium Waters is a provider of bottled water and coffee solutions for home and offices.

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New Fashion Pork

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New Fashion Pork is a producer of high quality pork with operations in Minnesota, Indiana.

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Green Mill Restaurants Inc.

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Green Mill Restaurants is a restaurant providing wining and dining services.

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National Checking Company

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National Checking Company is a restaurant specializing in cash register rolls, cash register ribbons, and food safety products.

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Bongards Premium Cheese

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Bongards Premium Cheese is a dairy firm providing SKIP

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Innovative Food Processors

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Innovative Food Processors is a domestic manufacturer of high performance powders and encapsulates that deliver consumer solutions.

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