Trix
Cheerios
Lucky Charms
Betty Crocker
Green Giant
Wheaties
Yoplait
Totino's
Hamburger Helper
Old El Paso
Pillsbury Doughboy
Progresso
Nature Valley
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Pillsbury
Cascadian Farm
Honey Nut Cheerios

Company Overview

General Mills, with over $13 billion in sales, markets many of the most trusted consumer brands across a wide range of food categories. With the addition of Pillsbury's businesses to our portfolio, we now have more than 30 brands that each have U.S. retail sales in excess of $100 million.

We are an international company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota with more than 25,000 employees around the world. Our sales in international markets exceed $2 billion with manufacturing, distribution and sales infrastructure in fast-growing global markets throughout Canada, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

General Mills has long been recognized as a company of champions. Our success is driven by our shared values and beliefs that include: Championship Brands, Championship People, Championship Performance and Championship Citizenship.

CHAMPIONSHIP BRANDS:
Great brands and great products build consumer loyalty. Some of the nation's best-known products are made by General Mills including: Cheerios, Wheaties, Total and Chex cereals; Betty Crocker desserts and main meal mixes such as Hamburger Helper; Old El Paso Mexican Foods; Pillsbury frozen foods and refrigerated dough; Progresso Soup; Green Giant frozen vegetables; snack products such as Pop Secret microwave popcorn, Fruit Roll-Ups, Nature Valley Granola Bars and Chex Mix; Yoplait and Colombo yogurt; Bisquick; and Gold Medal flour.

CHAMPIONSHIP PEOPLE:
Ours is a culture of talented, energetic people of quality and integrity who thrive in a challenging environment. At General Mills we believe there is a strong linkage between diversity and achieving the company's goal of being the innovative leader in every category in which we compete. This linkage, and the need for continued progress in diversity is embraced at the highest levels of the company's management. CEO Steve Sanger commented, "In the rapidly changing markets in which General Mills competes…the diversity of our people…and therefore of our ideas…is a central determinant of our success. This is why valuing diversity and creating workplaces where people with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds can exercise leadership are corporate priorities at General Mills."

At General Mills we recognize that we all have different needs and we are committed to providing our employees with every opportunity to balance their work and personal life responsibilities. It is this commitment to our employees that has been noticed by others inside and outside our industry. General Mills has been recognized as a great place to work, and the following are just a few of the awards we have been given:

  • Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For"
  • Working Mother Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For"
  • Industry Week Magazine's "100 Best Managed Companies"
  • Business Ethics Magazine "100 Best Corporate Citizens"
  • Fortune Magazine's "Most Admired Companies"

CHAMPIONSHIP PERFORMANCE:
To consistently achieve championship performance requires that we set ambitious goals and deliver superior results-not only for our investors, but also for our customers, our consumers, our communities and ourselves.

CHAMPIONSHIP CITIZENSHIP:
It's important to us to be championship citizens. That means helping make the communities we work in better places to live. General Mills is committed to the communities in which we do business. Our statement of corporate values states, "We will have a significant positive impact in our communities. We will focus on specific projects where our efforts will make a difference through direct philanthropy, product donation, corporate social investment and through our own personal involvement in civic and community affairs."

We invite you to visit our website www.generalmills.com to discover for yourself what makes General Mills the Company of Champions.