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Founding as General Mills. General Mills itself was created on June 20, 1928, [8] when Washburn-Crosby President James Ford Bell merged Washburn-Crosby with three other mills. [9] In the same year, General Mills acquired the Wichita Mill and Elevator Company of the industrialist Frank Kell of Wichita Falls, Texas.
General Mills made the controversial decision in 2016 to remove artificial dyes from its Lucky Charms and Trix cereals in favor of natural dyes made from fruit and vegetable juices, part of a ...
The Quaker Oats Company ( / ˈkweɪkər oʊts / ), known as Quaker, is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. As Quaker Mill Company, the company was founded in 1877 in Ravenna, Ohio. In 1881, Henry Crowell bought the company and launched a national advertising campaign for Quaker Oats. In 1911, the company acquired the Great ...
Around 1990, General Mills did a promotion called "Picture Yourself on a Wheaties Box," in which, for a fee, they would make a custom Wheaties box from one's own photograph that was sealed in clear acrylic. Kristi Yamaguchi, among other athletes, was featured in advertising this campaign. [citation needed]
General Mills and Kellogg are two of the largest packaged-goods manufacturers in the world and both have recently released their quarterly reports. Analysts had expected stronger results from both ...
For the fiscal fourth quarter that ended in May, the company's profit fell 9% to $557 million while sales dipped 6% to $4.7 billion. Over the past year, General Mills took in a profit of nearly $2 ...
To avoid confusion with cents-off coupons, the premium program was renamed "Betty Crocker Catalog Points" in 1992. General Mills retired the Betty Crocker Catalog in December 2006 and ended the premium program after 75 years. (Now that the premium program is no longer in effect, consumers can clip "Box Tops for Education" that are printed on ...
Early this morning, General Mills announced that earnings rose an impressive 35%, with a profit of $548.9 million. That's $0.82 per share, up from $0.61 per share in the same quarter last year.