Who’s the big global manufacturer of floor-cleaning equipment located in the western suburbs?

Golden Valley-based Tennant Co., right? The cornerstone Minnesota company is headed toward sales of $755 million this year, according to analysts.

Then there’s low-profile neighbor Nilfisk-Advance in Plymouth, the U.S. headquarters of the Danish manufacturer that’s expected to post sales of about $1.2 billion this year.

Nilfisk-Advance concedes that it controls only about 9 percent of the U.S. cleaning-equipment market compared with an estimated 13 percent for Tennant undefined the U.S. market leader. But Nilfisk-Advance says it has started to grow market share in the United States, its single largest market.

More at source: Star Tribune

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