General Mills, Inc.

Minneapolis, MN United States

  (NYSE: GIS)

Company Description

General Mills gets its Kix trying to grab the biggest-bowl prize as the US's #1 breakfast cereal maker (wrangling for the top spot every year with über-rival Kellogg). But #1 or not, the company has supermarket aisles full of kid-friendly morning-meal products. Its Big G Cereals include the well-known brands Cheerios, Chex, and Wheaties. But breakfast isn't the last meal on the menu at General Mills. The company makes ice cream (Häagen-Dazs), canned soup (Progresso), frozen dough products (Pillsbury), and Green Giant brand veggies. General Mills, which produces yogurt under the Yoplait brand, bought a controlling stake in the world's second-largest yogurt maker for $1.2 billion in 2011.