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General Mills

COMPANY

Food conglomerate. Brands include Annie's Homegrown, Betty Crocker, Bisquick, Chex, Fruit Roll-Ups, Gardetto's, Gogurt, Green Giant, Häagen-Dazs, Hamburger Helper, Old El Paso, Pillsbury, Pizza Rolls, Progresso, Toaster Strudel, Totino's, and Yoplait.

Official Website:
http://www.generalmills.com/

Industry:
Food

Ticker:
NYSE:GIS

Corporate headquarters:
Minneapolis, MN

Sales:
$11.6B (2006)

Employees:
28,000

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Y. Marc Belton
Business
c. 1959   Executive at General Mills
James J. Casey
Business
c. 1932   COO of Starbucks, 1985-87
Stephen R. Demeritt
Business
c. 1943   Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1999-2005
Michael J. Dolan
Business
c. 1947   CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2001-03
Leslie M. Frécon
Business
c. 1953   LFE Capital, LLC
Ann M. Fudge
Business
23-Apr-1951   CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2003-07
Julius C. Holmes
Diplomat
24-Apr-1899 15-Jul-1968 US Ambassador to Iran, 1961-65
Reatha Clark King
Business
11-Apr-1938   President of Metropolitan State, 1977-88
E. Robert Kinney
Business
9-Apr-1917 2-May-2013 CEO of General Mills, 1977-82
James A. Lawrence
Business
18-Oct-1952   CFO of Unilever
Joe R. Lee
Business
c. 1941   Red Lobster and Olive Garden
Siri S. Marshall
Business
c. 1948   General Counsel for General Mills, 1994-2008
Christopher D. O'Leary
Business
c. 1959   COO Intl. of General Mills
Kendall J. Powell
Business
c. 1954   CEO of General Mills
Gary M. Rodkin
Business
c. 1952   CEO of ConAgra
Stephen W. Sanger
Business
10-Apr-1946   CEO of General Mills, 1995-2007
Raymond G. Viault
Business
c. 1945   Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1996-2004
Mark H. Willes
Business
16-Jul-1941   CEO of Times Mirror, 1995-2000

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bradbury H. Anderson
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Best Buy, 2002-09
Paul Danos
Educator
c. 1942   Dean, Tuck School of Business
William T. Esrey
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Sprint, 1988-2003
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Business
6-Mar-1941   CEO of Merck, 1994-2005
Judith Richards Hope
Attorney
c. 1940   Pinstripes and Pearls
Heidi G. Miller
Business
c. 1954   EVP at JP Morgan Chase
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
Business
c. 1944   Strategic Investment Group
Steve Odland
Business
1959   CEO of Office Depot
Kendall J. Powell
Business
c. 1954   CEO of General Mills
Lois E. Quam
Business
c. 1961   Managing Director, Piper Jaffray
Michael D. Rose
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Holiday Inn, 1981-90
Robert L. Ryan
Business
c. 1943   CFO of Medtronic, 1993-2005
Stephen W. Sanger
Business
10-Apr-1946   CEO of General Mills, 1995-2007
A. Michael Spence
Economist
7-Nov-1943   Asymmetric markets
Dorothy A. Terrell
Business
12-Jun-1945   VP at NMS Communications, 1998-2002

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Stephen R. Demeritt
Business
c. 1943   Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1999-2005
Robert L. Johnson
Business
8-Apr-1946   CEO of BET
E. Robert Kinney
Business
9-Apr-1917 2-May-2013 CEO of General Mills, 1977-82
James A. Lawrence
Business
18-Oct-1952   CFO of Unilever
Joe R. Lee
Business
c. 1941   Red Lobster and Olive Garden
Raymond G. Viault
Business
c. 1945   Vice Chairman of General Mills, 1996-2004
Mark H. Willes
Business
16-Jul-1941   CEO of Times Mirror, 1995-2000

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Stephen Carley
Business
c. 1952   CEO, El Pollo Loco
Douglas R. Conant
Business
c. 1951   CEO of Campbell Soup
Jerry L. Ford
Business
c. 1941   Comdisco Network Services
Richard Kovacevich
Business
30-Oct-1943   CEO of Wells Fargo, 1998-2007
Robert Pirsig
Author
6-Sep-1928   Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Diebold
Author
8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Larry Bird
Basketball
7-Dec-1956   Boston Celtics
Calvert DeForest
Actor
23-Jul-1921 19-Mar-2007 Larry "Bud" Melman on Letterman
Chris Evert
Tennis
21-Dec-1954   The Ice Maiden
Bruce Jenner
Track and Field
28-Oct-1949   US Olympic track and field star
Walter Payton
Football
25-Jul-1954 1-Nov-1999 Sweetness
Mary Lou Retton
Gymnastics
24-Jan-1968   Olympic gymnast
Pete Rose
Baseball
14-Apr-1941   Cincinnati Reds
Sam Snead
Golf
27-May-1912 23-May-2002 Winner of 82 PGA tournaments


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