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3M

Headquarters: St. Paul, Minn., local office in Brookings, S.D.

Employees: 93,000 nationwide; 1,120 Brookings

Website: 3M.com

Description: 3M Brookings serves as 3M’s largest health care manufacturing plant. Our employees are experts in medical product manufacturing and new product development. For more than 47 years, the plant has continually applied 3M science to produce complex medical dressings and tapes, surgical drapes, biological indicators and food safety products. Our employees work together seven days a week/24 hours a day to produce more than 1,700 products that help health care professionals improve quality of care.

Alerus

Headquarters: Grand Forks, N.D.

Employees: 820

Website: alerus.com

Description: Re-established in 1933, with roots tracing back to 1879, Alerus is an independent, multibillion-dollar financial services company serving clients across the country and around the world. Alerus offers a broad array of banking, mortgage, retirement, and wealth management products and services to individuals, families, and businesses.

Aes2

Headquarters: Grand Forks, N.D.

Employees: 240

Website: AE2S.com

Description: AE2S’ primary focus is to help ensure clean drinking water, safe wastewater disposal and smart water resource development through planning, financing, designing and building infrastructure. Our team of professionals is dedicated to making a positive impact for our clients by doing things that matter. We believe by taking care of our clients, we will have the resources to take care of our team. AE2S is proud to be 100% Employee Owned!

All Terrain

Headquarters: Fargo, N.D.

Employees: About 30

Website: allterrainfargo.com

Description: All Terrain is North Dakota’s Lawn Care Leader, serving Fargo, West Fargo, Moorhead, and Minnesota lakes country. All Terrain believes in Being Real, delivering a great Customer Experience, serving our Team, and Giving Back to our community. All Terrain offers services of treating lawns with weed control and fertilizer, mowing, landscape maintenance, irrigation, and snow removal.

Apex

Headquarters: Fargo, N.D. with offices in Dickinson and Bismarck, N.D.; Detroit Lakes, Minn.

Employees: 79

Website: ApexEngGroup.com

Altru Health System

Headquarters: Grand Forks, N.D.

Employees: 3,244

Website: altru.org

Description: Altru Health System is a regional, integrated healthcare delivery system serving northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. Altru is a physician-led, multi-specialty group practice with a 277-bed acute care hospital, Level II trauma center, 45 bed specialty hospital, more than two dozen Grand Forks and regional practice locations, and a large home care network. Altru Health System was the first member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, extending Mayo Clinic knowledge and expertise to the patients we serve.

Description: Apex Engineering Group provides consulting services in drinking water, wastewater, water resources, transportation, municipal, and electrical engineering services and land surveying to the region. Our staff has a passion for providing engineering solutions, believing it’s only the best solution if it’s also the best experience. Great experiences happen by being true to our core values - listening, trusting and working together – beliefs that help to make life easier for our clients, the community and our employees.

Applied Engineering

Headquarters: Bismarck, N.D.

Employees: 112

Website: go-applied.com

Description: Applied Engineering combines talent and technology to solve its customers’ unique challenges. Applied provides product design, engineering, and manufacturing consulting services, as well as IT and programming services and large-format digital printing. Applied also sells industry-leading engineering software, and provides training and support from its offices throughout North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. Applied is 100% employeeowned and strives to be the company people come to for the best engineering and IT work.

Architecture Incorporated

Headquarters: Sioux Falls, S.D.

Employees: 27

Website: architectureinc.com

Description: Architecture Incorporated was founded in 1976 with “Excellence in Design” and “Service to Our Clients” as our priorities. We have since grown to be the largest architectural firm in South Dakota. Our diverse leadership team collectively brings more than 260 years of experience to the table. Our secret to success? A combination of this wealth of experience and a creative energy that flows through our office, sparking innovation on a daily basis.

Baker Boy

Headquarters: Dickinson, N.D.

Employees: 220

Website: bakerboy.com

Description: Baker Boy is a manufacturer of premium bakery products for foodservice, bakery, convenience store and privatelabel customers. We make more than 300 products at our sophisticated and innovative production facility, from breads, biscuits, buns and rolls to donuts, pastries, sweet rolls, cookies, croissants, and more. Baker Boy, in business for more than 60 years, has a rich tradition that is a product of its talented, passionate and inventive staff who are committed to baking excellence.

Arvig

Headquarters: Perham, Minn

Employees: 833

Website: arvig.com

Description: Established in 1950, Arvig has grown from a small, family-owned telephone company to one of the largest independent broadband and telecommunications providers in the nation, delivering cutting-edge technology to residential and business customers. As an employer of choice, Arvig is committed to investing in employees, offering profit sharing and an employee stock ownership plan, among other benefits. Supporting the communities in which its employee-owners live and work through donations and volunteerism is another company priority.

Border States Electric

Headquarters: Fargo, N.D.

Employees: 2,600

Website: borderstates.com

Description: At Border States Electric, we work hard and have fun at our 100 percent employee-owned company (rated the seventh largest electrical distributor in the United States by Electrical Wholesaling magazine). We have approximately 2,600 employee-owners in 22 states who supply products and services to construction, industrial and utility customers. We also volunteer and give back to our communities. The Branch Support Center is in Fargo, N.D. It’s great to be an employee-owner at Border States!

FisherIndustriesisa verticallyintegrated familyofbusinessesthatser vesall aspects of the aggregate industr y. We areaunified team working together to cementour placeintheindustr y. Led by visionarieswhodreambigandarenotafraid to thinkoutsidethebox, we continue to welcome challenges andtacklethe toughest jobs. Bridges, levees, roads,and walls; we doitall!

Construction Engineers

Headquarters: Grand Forks, N.D.

Employees: 83

Website: ConstructionEngineers.com

Description: “Do Something Constructive” is more than a clever saying for the team at Construction Engineers; it is the founding principle for how our company approaches each and every day.

Headquartered in Grand Forks, N.D., Construction Engineers provides construction management and design-build services for a commercial division focusing on education, health care and public facilities and an industrial division that builds processing plants and infrastructure systems.

Corporate Technologies

Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minn. with an office in Fargo, N.D.

Employees: 201

Website: gocorptech.com

Description: Corporate Technologies is a leading provider of managed IT solutions to businesses and institutions in Minnesota, North Dakota, Southern California, Michigan and New Jersey. With over 35 years of experience and the continued dedication of its employees, Corporate Technologies supports their clients on a national level. It offers a wide range of IT solutions, including: managed IT services, staffing, storage, virtualization, VoIP systems, consulting and networking. Corporate Technologies’ Technology Advantage® program provides a niche service for small and medium size businesses requiring IT support and services.

Cornerstone Bank

Headquarters: Decentralized, with banks located in North and South Dakota

Employees: 162

Website: cornerstonebanks.net

Description: With roots back to 1936, Cornerstone Bank has been serving customers for generations. We’re the kind of people who get to know you, and genuinely appreciate your needs. Whether you’re a family saving for the future, a rancher with a thousand head to handle, or the CEO of a business – we give straight answers and the best possible financial options.

Dakota Supply Group

Headquarters: Fargo, N.D. with executive offices in Plymouth, Minn.

Employees: 719 employee owners

Website: dsgsupply.com

Description: DSG is one of the Midwest’s leading distributors of innovative products and services for the electrical, plumbing, HVAC/R, utility, communications, automation, waterworks, and sewer/water/well trades. As a 100% employee-owned company with over 700 owners in 33 locations throughout the upper Midwest, we take great pride in helping our customers literally build our communities from the ground up, one construction project at a time.

Dakota Wesleyan University

Headquarters: Mitchell, S.D.

Employees: 147

Website: dwu.edu

Description: Founded in 1885, Dakota Wesleyan University is committed to educating students to identify and develop their individual talents, foster creative and critical thinking, and apply experiential learning for successful lives and meaningful careers. As an engaged, faith-affirming community, we embrace John Wesley’s Christ-centered model of uniting knowledge, reason, and vital faith in curricular and co-curricular activities. We inspire and empower our students, faculty and staff to make a difference through genuine, influential service to others.

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Drn Readitech

Headquarters: Ellendale, N.D.

Employees: 68

Website: drnreaditech.coop

Description: Founded in 1950, DRN ReadiTech has grown from a telephone cooperative in south central North Dakota to a leading technology solutions provider. Today, DRN ReadiTech provides traditional telecommunications services through a 100% fiber network and managed IT services as ReadiTech throughout ND, SD and western MN. With office locations in North Dakota including Ellendale, Lisbon, Oakes, Fargo, Grand Forks and Aberdeen, SD, DRN ReadiTech employs more than 65 professionals. Visit our website to learn more.

Eapc Architects Engineers

Headquarters: Grand Forks, N.D

Employees: 125

Website: eapc.net

Description: EAPC Architects Engineers is a five-time Best Place to Work via Prairie Business. EAPC was also recently named a 2019 Best Place to Work For from Zweig Group, the leading research, publishing, and advisory services resource for firms in the AEC industry. EAPC provides award winning design consulting services across the country for various sectors including healthcare, education, multi-family housing, commercial, civic, wind, and industrial. EAPC also provides commissioning and construction management services.

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER

Headquarters: Grand Forks, N.D.

Employees: 200+

Website: undeerc.org

Description: The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)—an applied research, development, demonstration, and commercialization facility— is recognized as one of the world’s leading developers of cleaner, more efficient energy to power the world and environmental technologies to protect and clean our air, water, and soil. Our multidisciplinary team of over 200 provides solutions to today’s most critical energy and environmental challenges through innovative science and engineering.

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