Vehicle sales 2010 1,200
Business Barometers
Sales tax collections
Mankato — Number of vehicles sold 767 2011 876
$500
1,000
$393.7 $447.5
$400
800
$300
600 400
$200
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$100
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Includes restaurants, bars, telecommunications and general merchandise store sales. Excludes most clothing, grocery store sales.
Mankato 2010 2011
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Lodging tax collections 2010
$40,000
2011
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Mankato food and beverage tax
Mankato/North Mankato $37,330 $39,255
2010
$60,000
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$46,325 $52,968
2011
$50,000
$30,000
$40,000
$20,000
$30,000 $20,000
$10,000 $0
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$0
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Stocks of local interest
Nov. 14
Dec. 12
Archer Daniels
$29.23
$28.65
-2%
Ameriprise
$46.04
$42.26
-8.2%
Best Buy
$27.59
$24.85
-9.9%
$3.00
Crown Cork & Seal
$32.39
$32.55
+0.5%
$2.00
Fastenal
$40.82
$41.29
+1.2%
General Growth
$14.15
$14.00
-1%
General Mills
$39.31
$40.15
+2.1%
HickoryTech
$10.48
$10.38
-0.9%
$1.70
$1.71
+0.6%
Itron
$36.14
$36.04
-0.3%
Johnson Outdoors
$15.18
$16.15
+6.4%
3M
$81.21
$81.07
-0.2%
Target
$52.71
$53.46
+1.4%
U.S. Bancorp
$25.26
$26.27
+4%
Wells Financial
$17.10
$15.00
-12.3%
Winland
$0.44
$0.38
-13.6%
$25.97
$26.07
+0.4%
Hutchinson Technology
Xcel
Percent change
Gas prices-Mankato 2011
2010
$4.00
$3.19
$2.95
$1.00 $0
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Gas prices-Minnesota 2011
2010
$4.00
$3.22
$3.00 $2.00
$2.92
$1.00 $0
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