The Golden Valley-based company reported a 9 percent sales increase, despite alack of demand in Western Europe. Pentair is in the process of merging with Tyco International's Flow Control business.

New Jersey-based Honeywell International Inc. has reached a deal to buy Saia Burgess Controls for $130 million, the Star Tribune reports. The Swiss-based company makes programmable heating and cooling controls for commercial buildings. It will become part of Honeywell’s Environmental and Combustion Controls business, which is based in Golden Valley.

Forbes magazine has once again recognized St. Paul-based Ecolab and Golden Valley-based General Mills on this year's list of the “The World’s Most Innovative Companies." Ecolab ranks No. 31 and General Mills is 50th out of 100 global companies. Both Minnesota-based firms were on the magazine's 2011 list.

Golden Valley-based General Mills Inc. says that its fiscal first-quarter profit went up 35 percent, with acquisitions lifting sales, the Associated Press reports. The results in the latest quarter were aided by the food maker's purchase of a controlling stake in Yoplait International and Food Should Taste Good, a natural snack foods company.

The Golden Valley-based restaurant chain is building a new restaurant in Williston, N.D. The Business Journal reports the new Buffalo Wild Wings location is scheduled to open in February.

Golden Valley-based Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. is spreading its wings to include restaurants in the Middle East and Puerto Rico. The company will establish 22 locations in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with options for four other Mideast countries, over the next six years. In a separate deal, a Florida-based franchisee of the company will open four restaurants in Puerto Rico by the end of 2016.

The new logo still features the same colors, but drops the tagline "Grill & Bar" and replaces it with "Wings. Beer. Sports." Golden Valley-based Buffalo Wild Wings also says the distinctive buffalo image is "more muscular and athletic." The company will officially unveil its new redesigned restaurants later this year.

The Golden Valley-based company came out Thursday to voice its opposition to the proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Minnesota. "We do not believe the proposed constitutional amendment is in the best interests of our employees or our state economy -- and as a Minnesota-based company we oppose it," General Mills said in a statement. The Pioneer Press notes General Mills and Little Canada-based St. Jude Medical are the only two major corporations in Minnesota to publicly oppose the marriage amendment.