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• Fortune 500 corporation General Mills produces a huge array of consumer foods, from cereal to salsa.

  On January 19, 2009, General Mills announced a voluntary recall of two of its peanut butter-flavored snack bars in the wake of a salmonella scare. The company said peanut butter in its Larabar Peanut Butter Cookie flavor snack bars and JamFrakas Peanut Butter Blisscrisp flavor snack bars may be contaminated with the bacteria.Reuters: General Mills recalls 2 peanut butter-flavored products (January 19, 2009)

• Fast Facts

  1. Stock symbol: GIS (NYSE)
  2. Founded: 1928
  3. Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  4. President or CEO: Stephen Sanger
  5. Mailing address: General Mills, Inc. P.O. Box 9452, Minneapolis, MN, 55440
  6. Fax number: 1-763-764-8330
  7. Phone number: 1-800-248-7310
  8. Customer Services department: 1-800-328-1144
  9. Sponsor charitable project Box Tops for Education
  10. Yearly contest: Pillsbury Bake-Off
  11. Sponsored radio programs like The Lone Ranger from the 1920s on

• General Mills History

  General Mills in its earliest incarnation was a pair of flour mills under the name Washburn Crosby Company. That company merged with others to create General Mills in 1928. Early on it began making breakfast cereal like Cheerios and Wheaties. While at one time General Mills oversaw the production of nonfood items like Play-Doh, now it focuses almost exclusively on food.

• General Mills Brands

  General Mills owns dozens of common brands that people buy every day including:

  1. Pillsbury
  2. Betty Crocker
  3. Progresso soup
  4. Yoplait yogurt
  5. Haagen-Dazs ice cream
  6. Green Giant vegetables

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