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General Mills's corporate campus in Golden Valley, Minnesota. In the 1930s, General Mills engineer, Thomas R. James, created the puffing gun, which inflated or distorted cereal pieces into puffed-up shapes. This new technology was used in 1937 to create Kix cereal and in 1941 to create Cheerioats (known today as Cheerios). In 1939, General ...
Mill City Museum is located in the ruins of the Washburn "A" Mill next to Mill Ruins Park on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.The museum, an entity of the Minnesota Historical Society that opened in 2003, focuses on the founding and growth of Minneapolis, especially flour milling and the other industries that used hydropower from Saint Anthony Falls.
Minnesota United FC – headquarters for the Major League Soccer franchise [22] Bluestone Garden [23] Room & Board; USFamily.net [24] Golden Valley's population is around 22,000, but more than 30,000 people work there, [25] because of the presence of large employers including General Mills, Honeywell, and Pentair.
In 2001 Pillsbury Company was purchased by General Mills (also located in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area). Parts of Pillsbury were sold to International Multifoods Corporation [5] which was later purchased by The J.M. Smucker Company of Orrville, Ohio, in 2004.
Business Without Boundary: The Story of General Mills. University of Minnesota Press. LCCN 54-10286. Hofsommer, Don L. (2009). "'Temples of Mammon and Hives of Industry': Railroads and the Minneapolis Milling District". Minnesota History. 61 (6): 248–259. JSTOR 40543907. Hofsommer, Don (2012). Minneapolis and the Age of Railways. University ...
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.
The Betty Crocker Kitchens is a division and part of the test kitchens at the world headquarters of General Mills in Golden Valley, Minnesota, operator of the Betty Crocker brand. They are modeled after and equipped like a kitchen that would be found in an American home, since the company's products and recipes tested are intended for home use. [1]
Railways at Northwestern (left) and General Mills, (center right) Loading flour in a boxcar, 1939. Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company was an American flour milling company that operated about one-quarter of the mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when the city was the flour milling capital of the world. [1]