General Mills used SAP CRM 7.0 along with the Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) in its deployment, which enabled 200 bakery and food service salespeople to access customer data in the field using their iPads, said Kerry Gustafson, the IS manager at General Mills in charge of the CRM rollout.
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General Mills (NYSE:GIS) is up 2.5% pre-market after reporting fiscal first quarter profit rose 35%.
As it turned out, General Mills blew everyone else out of the water this year.
Kellogg is now a percentage point ahead of General Mills in dollar market share.
Sometimes we bring bloggers into General Mills and we let them spend a couple of days.
General Mills' ( GIS - news - people ) Yoplait, and others followed.
"Under General Mills, you'd go in to eat and never see a bar, " says Lee.
On the earnings front, General Mills (GIS) beat earnings expectations and reiterated its full year guidance.
Founded in 1928, Minneapolis-based General Mills can credibly claim ownership of the family kitchen table.
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Other junk food producers, including Coca-Cola and General Mills, have adapted and thrived.
General Mills began a similar highly profitable transition in its product portfolio in 2005.
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Three days earlier, General Mills warned of weak North American sales and cuts its 2012 guidance.
Analysts expect General Mills to produce 8% EPS growth into 2014 on a 4.5% increase in revenue.
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Louis Park, Minnesota was formerly the office for the descendants of James Ford Bell, founder of General Mills.
General Mills earned its No. 1 rank by performing strongly in all of the dimensions that influence reputation.
Another one in the consumer staple area would be General Mills, which has a yield of 3%.
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Even as they are a big growth area for companies like General Mills, Pepsi, Nestle, Unilever and Coca-Cola.
Over the last 30 years, General Mills has never missed a quarterly dividend and never cut the dividend.
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It does face intense competition, though, from the likes of PepsiCo, General Mills and Kellogg.
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Excluding acquisition costs, General Mills reported net profit of 76 cents per share.
General Mills is putting the Wal- Mart FLW Tour's angler of the year on a Wheaties box this fall.
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General Mills (GIS) also posted a decline in fiscal second quarter earnings today.
Pepsi also competes with packaged-food companies like Mondelez International, Kellogg and General Mills.
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Before that he held management positions at Kraft and General Mills and was president of the Nabisco Foods Company.
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After General Mills pulled out of the animation business, Biggers became vice president of promotion and creative services at NBC.
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