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General Mills itself was created on June 20, 1928, [8] when Washburn-Crosby President James Ford Bell merged Washburn-Crosby with three other mills. [9] In the same year, General Mills acquired the Wichita Mill and Elevator Company of the industrialist Frank Kell of Wichita Falls , Texas .
James Ford Bell (August 16, 1879 – May 7, 1961), was an American business leader and philanthropist, was the founder of General Mills in 1928. He served as president of General Mills from 1928 to 1934 and as chairman from 1934 to 1948. He remained a board member until his death in 1961.
Giuseppe Uddo, who had already established a national canning operation, brought the Taorminas on board to form a new merged company. The resultant company was "The Uddo and Taormina Corporation" and they created the Progresso label, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] specializing in canned Italian food products, which became mostly soup , olive oil , tomatoes ...
General Mills (NYS: GIS) carries $12.9 billion of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. ... The $128 billion of goodwill in this case was created when AOL and Time Warner merged in ...
General Mills revives a long-discontinued cereal called Twinkles from the 1960s, plus introducing a new 'Friends' themed cereal. ... it will have vintage-inspired packaging — including a board ...
Rating Action: Moody's affirms General Mills Baa2/P-2 ratings; outlook stableGlobal Credit Research - 30 Aug 2022New York, August 30, 2022 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") today affirmed ...
The brand is owned by General Mills. Pillsbury acquired it in 1995, when its then-parent company Grand Metropolitan bought Pet, Inc., which had itself taken over the brand in 1968 from the Mountain Pass Canning Company. [1] The name is a reference to the city of El Paso, Texas, and the historical "Old" period when Texas was a part of Mexico.
In 1966, General Mills acquired Tom's for $75 million, and changed the name to "Tom's Foods". In the 1970s, General Mills attempted to launch Tom's chips into national supermarkets and branched off a new vending office snack service. By 1983, Tom's had changed ownership again.