Wheaties to feature Olympians Clay, Liukin Aug 30, 2008
The Beijing Olympics top gold medalist U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, with a record 8 will appear on cereal boxes of General Mills rival Kellogg Co. of Battle Creek, Mich. He was on the Wheaties box after the 2004 Olympics. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
Wheaties To Honor Olympic Champions Aug 30, 2008
Liukin and Clay will get their own special-edition Wheaties boxes, General Mills Inc. announced Thursday. Liukin, who is from Parker, Texas, won five medals in the Beijing Olympics, including helping the U.S. win silver in the team competition. (Click2Houston, TX)
Two U.S. gold medalists to be on Wheaties box Aug 29, 2008
Liukin and Clay will get their own special edition Wheaties boxes, General Mills Inc. announced Thursday. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Pigeons as Pilots? Aug 28, 2008
He got a $5,000 check from General Mills the cereal company, not the unfortunately named army officer of the same period, Major General John S. Mills, who was in fact a pilot and bomb squadron member himself. Ironically, considering the funding source, one key to the enterprise was keeping the birds hungry. (Scientific American)
Senior Subjects: The vegetable man Aug 28, 2008
General Mills used a similar strategy, which was successful in delivering a price improvement of 2 to 4 percent. Mr. Rainey concludes that even though reducing ounces per box amounts to a price increase, smaller boxes have a different psychological effect than adding a few pennies to the retail price. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Where to Find the Best Cereal Coupo... Aug 22, 2008
General Mills If you go to the you ll find coupons for 75 cents off Fiber One, Fiber One Honey Clusters, Fiber One Raisin Bran Clusters, or Fiber One Caramel Delight. Also save 75 cents when you buy Basic 4, Raisin Nut Bran, or Honey Nut Clusters. (Suite101.com)
Wineries unstuck in Lodi Aug 18, 2008
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Crying Foul over Online Junk Food Marketing Aug 12, 2008
At age 2, Zameen Rashid is well acquainted with Lucky, the leprechaun who lists the marshmallow clovers, moons, and stars in boxes of General Mills' (NYSE: - ) Lucky Charms cereal. Maybe too well, says his mother, Fahmida Rashid, who frets that too-frequent exposure to food ads in video games, TV shows, and the Web will foster unhealthy eating habits. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Food giants pass rising costs to shoppers Aug 9, 2008
Consider General Mills Inc.'s Cheerios cereal ... General Mills spokesman Tom Forsythe said moves by the Minneapolis company can't alone explain the big retail-price jump. (AZCentral -- Business)
Breakfast BREAKS Reaffirms Commitment to Serving Kids Nutritious Meals in Light of New Study Targeting High-Calorie Fast Food Options Aug 6, 2008
The retail version of Breakfast BREAKS is comprised of a convenient single-serve box that contains a Bowl Pack cereal from General Mills, a 100% fruit juice box from Minute Maid, a division of The Coca-Cola Company, a nutritious snack, and utensils. In 2007, ESE Foods introduced to school foodservice programs its "Gold Star" Breakfast BREAKS to help offset the growing concern about poor nutrition and help foodservice directors more easily identify meals that are nutritionally superior. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Only Ben Bernanke Knows When General Mills Sells Credit Like Its Cheerios Aug 6, 2008
Fed Knows When General Mills Sells Debt Like Cheerios (Update1) ... The bond- market headwinds buffeting companies from Tyco to General Mills Inc. may thwart efforts by Fed Chairman and Treasury Secretary to keep the economy out of recession with interest-rate cuts, stimulus checks and increased housing cash ... General Mills returned to sell $700 million of five-year bonds last week with a spread of 205 basis points, the most it has paid above Treasuries on that maturity. (Bloomberg)
Post skips the flakes, almonds with new Just Bunches Jul 31, 2008
Retired accountant Jim Proctor said the Just Bunches compares very poorly to General Mills Oatmeal Crisp, his favorite. He described the oaty bunches as large and mealy, a bit sweet and perhaps better suited to a horse. (Florida Times-Union)
Companies offer less for your dollar Jul 8, 2008
General Mills made a similar move earlier this year. NBC News found two boxes of the companys Cheerios cereal on sale in a New York supermarket. (MSNBC -- Business)
Spicy Times Ahead for Food Stocks Jul 3, 2008
In some ways, its tough to believe that General Mills (NYSE: GIS) isnt printing money at the same rate that its raising cereal prices. In last weeks fourth-quarter earnings report, General Mills reported a 13 ... Not all is rosy in the land of food, though, Yes, General Mills plans to increase prices more than it already has, but its profit did drop by 17. (MSNBC -- Business)
Soaring Food, Fuel Costs Force New Choices By Penny Pinchers Jul 3, 2008
Other firms benefiting from changing consumer tastes are Kroger () and General Mills ... Cereal maker General Mills said sales rose 13% in its fourth quarter ended May 25. (Investors Business Daily)
Cereal Cafes Jun 26, 2008
General Mills made its mark in cereal in 1921 with the creation of Wheaties. According to sales records, Cheerios, produced by General Mills, is the most popular cereal in the United States. (Suite101.com)
Oracle's earnings soar 27% in quarter on sales growth Jun 26, 2008
General Mills profit drops 17. General Mills Inc. said accelerating costs for ingredients and fuel may spur additional price increases after it started charging more for cereal and soup in the last few weeks ... 47 billion, General Mills said. (Los Angeles Times)
General Mills raises cereal prices as profit falls Jun 26, 2008
By Joshua Freed, AP Business Writer MINNEAPOLIS With ingredient prices increasing, General Mills said Wednesday it has raised cereal prices and might consider other price increases. General Mills said its fourth-quarter profit dropped 17 ... Foodmakers like General Mills are vulnerable to inflation on several fronts. (USA Today -- Money)
Fed decision to dominate coming week Jun 21, 2008
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Fuel costs, slowing demand hurt FedEx Jun 19, 2008
General Mills Inc. rose the most in 10 months in New York trading after the cereal maker reported fourth-quarter profit and sales that exceeded some analysts' estimates ... Profit excluding commodity trading rose to about 73 cents a share, General Mills said. (Boston Globe)
General Mills Thanks Its Lucky Charms Jun 19, 2008
With higher ingredient costs eating into food companies' profits, General Mills surprised investors with news that full-year results would be better than expected ... Shares of General Mills, Inc. (nyse: - - ) gained $1 ... But with commodity prices showing no signs of falling, it's unclear how long the General Mills can expect consumers to foot the bill. (Forbes -- Markets)
Kellogg shrinks boxes of several cereal brands Jun 18, 2008
About a year ago, rival General Mills Inc., maker of Cheerios and Wheaties cereals, started selling its cereals in smaller boxes, at similar prices. Also in msnbc. (MSNBC -- Business)
Size surprise: Consumers pay as grocery portions get smaller Jun 12, 2008
General Mills began downsizing cereals last June. Some boxes of Cheerios and Wheaties shrank as much as 1. (USA Today -- Money)
Whole grains sprouting in unusual places Jun 10, 2008
Nowhere is it more obvious than the cereal aisle, where national brands from General Mills to Kellogg's have added whole grains to old favorites like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Trix. The old products are still on shelves, but the whole-grain options are becoming more available than ever before. (AZCentral -- Home)
WAL-MART puts squeeze on food costs... May 30, 2008
General Mills' (, ) Hamburger Helper is now made with denser pasta shapes, allowing the same amount of food to fit into a 20% smaller box at the same price. The change has saved 890,000 pounds of paper fiber and eliminated 500 trucks from the road, giving General Mills a cushion to absorb some of the rising costs. (The Drudge Report)
Are your cereal portions shrinking? May 29, 2008
Last summer, General Mills told investors about its new "Right Size, Right Price" program in which prices of cereals like Cheerios, Wheaties and Total went up while portion size went down 1. 5 ounces. (AZCentral -- Business)
Dow Chemical Price Increases Pave Way for Hershey, Monsanto, General Mills May 29, 2008
Hershey, the candy maker; General Mills, the seller of breakfast cereals including Cheerios; oil company Hess Corp.; and Precision Castparts Corp., a maker of metal components, increased their reserves more than 60 percent ... To blunt higher costs in the past year, General Mills charged more for cereal, Progresso soups, Yoplait yogurt, Pillsbury breakfast pastries and Green Giant canned vegetables ... a General Mills spokesman, didn't return phone calls seeking comment. (Bloomberg -- US)
Champion calls Maynard home May 17, 2008
General Mills did ship about 100 boxes all shrink wrapped to my mother, just as they would send them to a store, said Shoemaker. It was really pretty funny. (Beacon Villager, MA)
Cutting Your Food Bill May 8, 2008
In an effort to cut costs, General Mills, for instance, has reduced the number of shapes in Chex Mix. While companies do their part, we can do our part to cut the food bill. (WKRC.com, OH)
NutraCea cooks up new strategy, expands staff Apr 18, 2008
Kellogg's, General Mills, Purina and Stouffer's are some of the major manufacturers that incorporate NutraCea's stabilized rice bran into their whole-grain products. Rice bran is found more commonly in popular foods now than five or 10 years ago. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Tim TuttleINSIDE NASCAR Apr 9, 2008
Bobby Labonte certainly seems like a serious prospect to follow Cheerios and those other General Mills brands to Richard Childress Racing next season ... The bigger question is this: Are Childress and General Mills interested in Labonte ... This is the trend General Mills has been tracking and it isn't pretty. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- Racing)
Food companies lap up blog mentions Writers on every food group cook up... Mar 24, 2008
Food blogs "may not have the mass reach, but it's a more engaged, specific audience," said Greg Zimprich, a spokesman for General Mills Inc. "Their readers are going to care a lot more about a product of ours." ... Most don't get more than a couple of thousand daily visits, but General Mills nevertheless sends off its cereal bars, soups and other packaged foods in hopes of a mention. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Wheat boom - Farmers reap benefits of high prices, but bakeries feel pinch Mar 24, 2008
Spokane Bakery Supply, which supplies Le Petit Outre, typically had monthly contracts for Montana wheat with General Mills in Great Falls. Since February, those contracts have become weekly because of the market fluctuations. (Missoulian, MT)
Discover finds profit drops 65% Mar 20, 2008
General Mills Inc., the second-largest US maker of cereal, beat analysts' estimates for third-quarter profit as it shipped more Yoplait yogurt and Fiber One granola bars, and cut costs to counter soaring commodity prices. Net income jumped 61 percent to $430. (Boston Globe)
Pauline Slade (from right), Wayne Rhoden and Sue Rhoden, volunteers from the First Assembly of God church, unload boxes of General Mills cereal Thursday at the Richardson Community Center for tornado disaster victims. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Mar 15, 2008
Pauline Slade (from right), Wayne Rhoden and Sue Rhoden, volunteers from the First Assembly of God church, unload boxes of General Mills cereal Thursday at the Richardson Community Center for tornado disaster victims. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter. (Lake City Reporter, FL)
Breakfast-Eating Teens Thinner, Healthier Mar 4, 2008
this study likely sponsored by general mills. josie67. (MedHeadlines)
Prices to keep rising at the super market Mar 1, 2008
Cereal makers Kellogg Co. and General Mills Inc., which count heavily on grain for their goods, said they're grappling with higher commodity prices. PepsiCo Inc., the Coca-Cola Co. and their bottlers face higher prices for aluminum, sweeteners, such as high fructose corn syrup, and plastic, an oil product. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Portfolio Staples Feb 28, 2008
General Mills () and Kellogg (), for instance, trade at about 17 times expected earnings but are projected to grow less than 10% over the next few years. "Hain offers investors an attractive combination of growth and relative economic insensitivity that we believe is an appealing combination in the current market environment," Canaccord Adams analyst Scott Van Winkle said in a research note on Feb. 5. (SmartMoney)
Breakfast BREAKS and Teen Music Phenomenon the Jonas Brothers Team Up to Raise Awareness about the Importance of Eating Breakfast Feb 23, 2008
The retail version of Breakfast BREAKS is sold in a convenient single-serve box that contains a Bowl Pack(TM) cereal from General Mills, a 100% fruit juice box from Minute Maid, a division of The Coca-Cola Company, a nutritious snack and utensils ... Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios and Lucky Charms are registered trademarks of General Mills used with permission. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Bradley box top fundraiser leads to Valentine roses Feb 22, 2008
Penni Harrison's kindergarten students won the right to give her a bouquet of roses after collecting the most points for General Mills' Box Tops for Education program. When parents and school staff purchase a product such as cereal with the Box Tops for Education coupon on the box, they cut it out and give it to the school. (Leavenworth Lamp, KS)
Wheat futures retreat on profit-taking following big February gain Feb 21, 2008
The higher wheat prices may not immediately affect U.S. consumers since big food companies like Kellogg Co., General Mills Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc. typically protect themselves from price volatility with long-term supply contracts. But consumers should expect higher prices eventually to creep into the grocery aisles for everything from cereal to cookies, analysts say. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
90 is the new 100: Food firms lower the bar on calorie packs Feb 20, 2008
Snacks ask: Does this bag make me look fat. Search hundreds of franchises and business opportunities to find the one that is right for you. (USA Today -- Money)
Commodity prices put branded labels on a precipice Feb 18, 2008
On store shelves, Sara Lee has announced three separate price increases for bread over the past year; Hershey announced a 13 percent increase in the price of about a third of its American candy products at the end of January; and General Mills reduced the size of its cereal boxes last year, effectively raising the price per ounce. The increases are not limited to food. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Chex and Balances Feb 13, 2008
General Mills () and its peers have been busy raising prices to make up for higher ingredient costs. (For cereal, General Mills technically shrank boxes rather than increase prices, but the effect is the same ... Not that General Mills is struggling with margins now. (SmartMoney)
Her Most Important Number May Be the One She Doesn't Even Know Feb 9, 2008
Source: General Mills ... General Mills' popular franchise includes Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Frosted Cheerios, Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, MultiGrain Cheerios, Berry Burst Cheerios, Fruity Cheerios, Cheerios Crunch and Yogurt Burst Cheerios ... As a joint venture, 8th Continent leverages the extensive marketing, sales, and distribution capabilities of General Mills and DuPont's internationally recognized expertise in soy processing technology. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Worker Productivity Increases 1.8% Feb 7, 2008
General Mills Inc., the second-largest U.S. cereal maker, is reducing the effect of rising wheat and dairy prices by cutting costs and boosting efficiency, Chief Executive Officer Kendall J. Powell said last month. The first line of defense for us is productivity,'' Powell said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Jan. 23 from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Yahoo News -- U.S. Economy)
'Speed Racer' aims for multiple tie-ins Jan 26, 2008
That kind of backing from brands like General Mills, McDonald's, Target, Mattel, Lego, Topps and Esurance, among others, will create the "noise" needed to gets auds interested in the pic, Silver says ... nGeneral Mills stamping "Speed Racer" imagery on packaging of its cereals and other brands like Betty Crocker cookie mixes, Old El Paso Mexican foods and Fruit Gushers. (Variety)
Tight Wallets Sink Stocks Jan 12, 2008
General Mills () is facing higher overhead, the Associated Press. A jump in prices of commodities, including grain, dairy, energy and corn, has left the cereal maker with higher production costs. (SmartMoney)
Stocks reverse course on renewed credit market concerns Dec 20, 2007
General Mills Inc. said profit in the most recent quarter edged higher, but the cereal and packaged food maker's results were damped by soaring ingredient costs and other expenses. General Mills fell $1. (AZCentral -- Business)
General Mills 2nd-Q profit edges higher on strong revenue growth Dec 19, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS Food maker General Mills said Wednesday its quarterly profit edged up 1 percent as higher sales helped offset rising ingredient costs, expenses from a pizza recall and more spending on marketing ... Golden Valley-based General Mills Inc. said the voluntary recall it announced last month of all pepperoni varieties of Totino's and Jeno's frozen pizzas due to possible bacterial contamination cost it $20 million. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Supply fears hit wheat Dec 18, 2007
Kellogg, the largest U.S. cereal maker, General Mills, Nissin Food Products and Kikkoman are among companies that have raised prices. "We are seeing a broad-based increase in cost pressures," Brian Redican, a senior economist at Macquarie, said Monday. (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Week Ahead: Morgan, Bear to See Red Dec 17, 2007
Darden, ConAgra Foods, General Mills Report ... Another packaged-food company, General Mills Inc. (GIS), reports Wednesday, and investors will be interested in hearing how consumers have responded to higher cereal prices and how profit margins are faring in the face of soaring grain prices. (SmartMoney)
Living inside - Food marketers and research scientists are increasingly interested in good probiotic bacteria Dec 12, 2007
General Mills introduced its competitor, Yo-Plus, under the Yoplait yogurt brand this year. Other 2007 products include: Kraft Foods Inc.'s LiveActive prebiotic cottage cheese and probiotic cheddar cheese; Nestle's probiotic Good Start Natural Cultures baby formula; Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp.'s Good Evening prebiotic baby food; and the Swiss firm Barry Callebaut's probiotic chocolate. (Missoulian, MT)
Windsor boy, 9, wins accolade on cereal boxes in honor of his fight against hunger Dec 11, 2007
In April, ShopRite Partners In Caring and General Mills began accepting essays from parents, teachers, and other community members to help them find four "Hunger-Fighting SuperKids," children exceptionally committed to fighting hunger in his or her community. Connor and three other children - a girl from East Lyme and two other girls from New Jersey - smile out from the side panel of 125,000 limited-edition Cheerios boxes that hit the shelves of ShopRite stores on Oct. 28. (Journal Inquirer, CT)
Wheat to Increase to Record as Adverse Weather Cuts Production, USDA Says Dec 10, 2007
The grain reached its highest ever in September, spurring companies including Kellogg Co. and General Mills Inc. to increase prices. Wheat in Chicago then fell 20 percent in seven weeks before rebounding. (Bloomberg -- Australia & New Zealand)
Commodity Costs Cut Into Meat Producers Dec 7, 2007
Higher grain costs also affect other food companies like cereal maker General Mills (nyse: - - ). (See: ) Meat producers, however, are affected more severely because of difficulty passing the cost increases along to consumers. (Forbes -- Markets)
New nutrition labels headed to stores Nov 29, 2007
For example, Kraft Foods Inc, the world's largest food company, has a "sensible solutions" label for some products; General Mills splashes the words "whole grain" on its cereal boxes and its 100-calorie pack has become ubiquitous on store shelves. (c) Reuters 2007. (MSNBC -- Health)
Purdue restaurant serves up cereal, oatmeal Nov 27, 2007
"We provide all of the Kellogg's and General Mills brands," supervisor Misty Brummet said. "Our oatmeal has been selling really well, too.". (WKRC.com, OH)
Your neighbor is on the cereal box!Local Shop-Rite employees adorn Cheerios for charitable work Nov 25, 2007
The top fundraising Shop-Rites were able to have two representatives that would be featured on a special box of Cheerios, produced by sponsor General Mills that Shop-Rite stores would sell on a limited basis at a special price ... Last week, General Mills released the special edition cereal boxes to be sold in the store ... General Mills donated an additional $20,000 to the Shop-Rite Partners in Caring Fund, a component fund of the Community Foundation of New Jersey. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)
Kraft Quits the Breakfast Club Nov 18, 2007
Post Cereal, the third largest cereal maker in the country after Kellogg and General Mills, would represent 32% of the new company's sales. For Kraft, the benefits are less clear. (BusinessWeek)
Serial cereal winners Nov 17, 2007
They've collected enough General Mills Box Tops for Education to get a photo of the school put on Cheerio boxes sold in stores throughout the northeast ... General Mills, the maker of Cheerios, sponsors the program and in this area Price Chopper administers it by selling the boxes with the photos of the winning school ... "She read about us in the newspapers the first time we won and then the envelopes started coming." Orenda, like all other Shen elementary and middle schools, participates in... (Community News Weekly, NY)
Kraft shedding Post cereals business Nov 16, 2007
The acquisition, which is expected to be completed in mid-2008, catapults the maker of store-brand cereal into the No. 3 position behind industry leaders Kellogg Co. and General Mills Inc.. "This acquisition is indeed a watershed event for Ralcorp," said Kevin Hunt, the St. Louis-based company's co-chief executive officer. (Anchorage Daily News)
Kraft shedding Post cereals for $1.65 billion Nov 16, 2007
Ralcorp shares climbed 10 percent in premarket trading as it gains heft to compete against brand-name cereal industry leaders Kellogg Co. and General Mills Inc.. Under terms of the agreement, Kraft will first split off or spin off Post and its related assets to Kraft shareholders. (MSNBC -- Business)
Daily Briefing Nov 16, 2007
The acquisition, which is expected to be completed in mid-2008, catapults the maker of store-brand cereal into the No. 3 position behind Kellogg Co. and General Mills Inc.. United Rentals deal could be revived. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
Kraft selling its Post cereals, Modesto plant Nov 16, 2007
The deal catapults St. Louis-based Ralcorp, a maker of store-brand cereals, into the No. 3 position behind industry leaders Kellogg Co. and General Mills Inc.. A spokesman for Ralcorp said it plans to keep the Post cereal operation in Modesto. (Modesto Bee, CA)
