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Rerating General Mills to mid importance. I think some people get confused with what "importance" means, wikipedia .5 defines high importance as "Contributes a substantial depth of knowledge with significant impact in other fields". I do not believe this article qualifies as high importance. Mid importance is defined as "Adds important further details within its field, with some impact beyond it", this seems far more appropriate.
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[edit] Millsberry

What happened to the official page? Its an extensive game that deserves more than a short paragraph. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.111.124.220 (talk) 01:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pet Incorporated

Why does this article (or the wiki in general) make no mention of Pet Incorporated?

http://www.answers.com/topic/pet-incorporated?cat=biz-fin

I was just reading the copyright information on a box of Old El Paso taco shells and it says that the product is distributed by the Old El Paso Division of General Mills Cereals, LLC and then down lower it says © 2007 Pet Incorporated. A Google search only brings up that Answers.com article as the only concrete information on Pet - they don't appear to have a website so my hunch tells me that they're owned by Mills now. There's also no wiki article on Pet, which is kind of odd because if you read that article, they've made some pretty big products. IndigoAK200 (talk) 03:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nestle

Anonymous(64.165.10.191), why do you insist that Nestle is a brand marketed by General Mills. Nestle is a company in its own right, completely independent of General Mills. The two have a marketing partnership in europe to market cereals, but this does not give General Mills ownership of the neslte brands. I realize your changes don't explicitly say this, but the implication is there and can be confusing to readers. Along these lines, Nesquik should be listed as a Nestle cereal. Jmeppley 17:58, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Washburn Crosby Company

The article says:

General Mills's original name was the Washburn Crosby Company

In what year was the name switched to General Mills? WpZurp 01:45, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Eddie Bauer

Eddie Bauer is defunct? Sure? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.112.87.184 (talk • contribs) 01:12, 16 March 2005

[edit] Milk 'n' Cereal Bars

Content from Milk 'n' Cereal Bars was merged into this article after this AfD debate. Please edit this content to fit the article where appropriate. --bainer (talk) 07:12, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

In case you ever played this game, in the level where you steal the jet pack from the Army Base (Black Project), they mention after it is taken "That's a $60 million project! Get the general mills on the line!"

Does this article have any relation to this situation? --NicAgent 20:32, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electronics

Most people do not know that General Mills has had a history of industrial production in the areas of warfare, weapons, submarines (deep sea Alvin), and electonics. These objects are produced along side their cereal equipment production.

Here is some starter information, I feel this part warrants it's own main article.

General Mills Electronics Group (established 1961) General Mills Wiring and Chassis General Mills Wiring and Chassis During World War II, General Mills became involved in the production of naval gun sights, torpedo directors and other military equipment. The food giant continued this production after the war, when it produced 2,000 bomb sights for the U.S. Air Force's B47 bomber. The manufacture of other military equipment, as well as the bomb sight, developed into the Mechanical Division of the company. Approximately 1957, the company formally established a digital computer laboratory at its East Hennepin Ave. facility in Minneapolis. June 28, 1957 the Mechanical Division was awarded a contract by the Engineer Research and Development Laboratories, Corps of Engineers, for the development of an Automatic Position Survey Equipment used to conduct first order astronomic surveys of the Earth's surface. It utilized a computer developed by General Mills known as the Automatic Position Survey Analyzer and Computer (APSAC). APSAC used a 512 word core memory (6-bit words). *March 14, 1960 General Mills announced a new computer, the General Mills' 2003, an all transistorized general purpose computer with a 4k core memory (36-bit word). Francis Alterman was manager of the digital computer laboratory. *June 1961 General Mills reorganized such operations under the Electronics Group, which included Electronic and Mechanical Defense Products, Balloon and Aerospace Systems, Automatic Handling Equipment and Research. Richard A. Wilson directed the operation of the Group. Subsidiaries of the Group included Magnaflux Corporation (Chicago), and the Daven Co. (with operation in NJ and NH). *October 1961 General Mills delivered the AD/ECS-37 computer to NASA for use in the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory Program. A different version, the AD/ECS-20, was used in a classified military program. *January 25, 1962 Richard A. Wilson announced a step-up on the company's computer production. Irving Cohen, formerly of Burroughs Corporation, was named manager of computer development; Richard Quinn was named assistant manager of the Computer Development Laboratory; and George Grayson was project manager of the AD/ECS-37. <br> Sources: Upper Midwest Investor, (November 1961) 17-18. General Mills Corporation press releases. Computer Product Literature Collection (CBI 12), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. General Mills Corporation product literature. Computer Product Literature Collection (CBI 12), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. --[[User:24.144.69.95|24.144.69.95]] 00:21, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite

This article really needs to be re-written. Clearly written by a corporate shill looking for free advertising. Parts of it are even written in first person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.232.69 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 11 May 2007

This page is definitely in need of a rewrite. The important dates given are not in any logical order, which makes it difficult to follow the history of the company. There are also important pieces of information that are not present in the history section, and some of the information could even be taken out. Secondly, the marketing section needs some serious revisions. This section currently names the Millsbury advergame as the only marketing strategy. The company uses many other strategies such as using characters on boxes to attract children or clearly marking health benefits of their products on the packaging to attract more adults. Much of the Millsbury information on the page needs to be deleted because it really does not have a lot of relevance to the company and the wide variety of their products. I think it is important to cover the broad spectrum of business ventures this company covers instead of just focusing on the cereals they are known for. More pictures would be beneficial as well. cjhurlbu —Preceding comment was added at 17:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ingredients from China

how many of your products are made or have ingreediantsmade in china? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.140.250 (talk • contribs) 23:32, 1 July 2007

[edit] Photo request

Why not show a picture of the Geneneral Mills headquarter, like the one at http://www.citynoise.org/upload/14733.jpg. It is kind of special.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.101.33.142 (talk) 01:07, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Pillsbury.jpg

Image:Pillsbury.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:31, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Neutrality

The article read as a promotion for General Mills, which, given the sources, was not surprising. I renamed “History and Accomplishments” to the neutral “History” and removed the “Customer Satisfaction” section; the contents thereof were either deleted (first paragraph violated NOR and NPOV) or appended to history. The remaining paragraph appears to still violate NPOV. A rewrite is also needed to remove peacock words, etc. Ɛƚƈơƅƅơƚɑ talk 14:33, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Puffing Gun

The puffing gun was invented by Lester Borchardt, not Thomas R. James Gungasdindin (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)