What do Target, Caribou Coffee, Best Buy, Northwest Airlines, and General Mills all have in common?

They all rank in the top 10 of publicly held companies with headquarters in Minnesota, ranked by revenue courtesy of the Star Tribune. Each year the paper features the Star Tribune 100, ranking the top 100 companies here in Minneapolis and St Paul. They also track these companies overall sales and profits, comparing their performance against the Standard and Poor’s 500.

According to the Tribune, this is the first time in 5 years that our local top 100 has not bested the S & P 500.