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barrons3	Cramer also recommended General Mills (GIS). He said this company raised its 2010 guidance and has always been an outperformer. "People don't cut back on food," he said, "not even when they're dieting!"	Love	November 05, 2009
barrons3	The program is to attempt to buy only the likes of Kimberly-Clark (KMB), Altria (MO), General Mills (GIS) and the higher-yielders.	Love	October 08, 2009
barrons3	As usual, the easiest way to make it back is to get on the horses that are leaders. What I did with 59 days left is figure out which companies were going to have the best quarters (e.g., Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Salesforce.com (CRM)) and which ones had already had the great quarters (e.g., Nike (NKE) and General Mills (GIS)), and I would buy gigantic positions in deep-in-the-money calls dated January. That way, I had the exposure I needed.	Love	October 08, 2009
barrons3	Dazzling earnings, here. Two days of dazzling earnings. General Mills (GIS) has put up numbers that were inconceivable a year ago, a true blow-away quarter that was bottom-line actual, as opposed to bottom-line subjective. For years the knock on GIS was that it was "manufacturing" the upside through nips and tucks and buybacks. Nobody can say that after this huge quarter. Commodity costs and fuel costs helped, but so did the ongoing restructuring that is the company's "holistic margin management." I know that the skeptics laughed at Ken Powell, the terrific CEO, about that term, but it is working. This stock's powering higher on this quarter even though it isn't a cyclical industrial. Good for Ken, good for General Mills, good for the shareholders.	Love	September 24, 2009
Valjean24601	Bought this under analysts' opinions (first mistake). Price was static. I sold mine when it was downgraded recently.	Hate	September 06, 2009
barrons3	In the latter theory the big durable good numbers and existing-home numbers are "in" the stock market. I say that because some of my hardest-hit names are directly linked to a stronger economy -- 3M (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), Deere (DE), Fluor (FLR) and General Electric (GE) -- while the recession stocks are rocking: Procter & Gamble (PG), Celgene (CELG), General Mills (GIS), Pepsi (PEP), Coca-Cola (KO) and Abbott Laboratories (ABT). Worse, Dollar Tree (DLTR) and Family Dollar (FDO) are on the move.	Love	August 27, 2009
barrons3	Could someone pound General Mills (GIS) and Pepsi (PEP) more?	Love	August 06, 2009
barrons3	Gartman likes playing aluminum and grains. He recommended long Alcoa (AA), long Kellogg (K) and long General Mills (GIS).	Love	July 22, 2009
High Dividends	increasing its quarterly dividend by 9.3 percent.	Love	July 18, 2009
Jbecerril	bellweather	Love	July 15, 2009
barrons3	Cramer said when he looks at the big picture, he sees a slow recovery coming, one that won't produce a lot of jobs or spending, but one that will produce a lot of profits from huge layoffs and falling commodity prices. This is good news for defensive names and high yielders like General Mills (GIS), and Yum! Brands (YUM), both of which he owns for his Action Alerts PLUS portfolio, he said.	Love	July 09, 2009
barrons3	General Mills (GIS) is trading right around $60, explains Guy Adami. I like this stock but $60 has been resistance. I would only be bullish if it closes above $60.	Love	July 08, 2009
High Dividends	declared a 9.3% increase amounting to a boost of 4-cents per share in the quarterly dividend rate to $0.47 per share, payable Aug. 3, 2009, to shareholders of record July 10, 2009.	Love	July 04, 2009
barrons3	Giant packaged-foods maker general mills dished up a 9% dividend boost last Monday, its largest increase in several years. "Strong and growing cash dividends are an important component of General Mills ' total return to our shareholders," declared Chief Executive Kendall J. Powell. He added that the payout enhancement reflects General Mills' "robust financial condition and excellent future-growth prospects." Powell also said, "Consumers are spending more of their food dollars for meals at home, and that trend is a tailwind for our U.S. retail and our international businesses."(Barron's wrote favorably about General Mills on April 27.) The new quarterly will be 47 cents a share, up from 43 cents, payable Aug. 3 to investors of record July 10. The stock goes ex-dividend July 8. This is General Mills' ninth payout increase in five years. Including predecessors, the Minneapolis company has paid dividends without interruption or reduction since 1898. During fiscal 2009, ended May 31, General Mills repurchased 20 million of its shares at an average price of $64 each. At a current Big Board price of 58, the new payout gives General Mills' shares (ticker: GIS) a 3.24% yield. Its 52-week range is 72.01 to 46.37. Arch rival Kellogg (K) trades near 47, pays a quarterly dividend of 34 cents and yields 2.91%.	Love	July 04, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"The defensives, the Pepsis (PEP) and General Mills (GIS), remain incrementally positive for the quarter, so I do not foresee a lot of profit-taking occurring." <a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=27edc152-3aac-4d3e-940f-9c3800c5daa7#" target="_blank">"The Post-Mark-Up Could Sting Industrials," 6-30-09</a>	Love	July 01, 2009
jsatter298	growth	Love	June 25, 2009
barrons3	Or are we going to challenge the lower strike levels once again because the data -- unemployment claims, horrible news out of the autos -- cannot support this level and because the rotation into the General Mills (GIS) cohort blinds us?	Love	May 14, 2009
barrons3	The $1.4 billion growth fund, holding 44 companies, is packed with Minnesota names like multinational manufacturer 3M (MMM), food giant General Mills (GIS), medical-device makers Medtronic (MDT) and St. Jude Medical (STJ), discount retailer Target (TGT), industrial-filter producer Donaldson (DCI), nuts-and-bolts distributor Fastenal (FAST), paint-sprayer supplier Graco (GGG), and water-cleaning-equipment firm Pentair (PNR). "The Minneapolis-St. Paul area has one of the highest concentrations of large, multinational industrial and financial companies in the U.S.," Frels observes. "Local surveys claim that Minnesota public companies consistently have outperformed the general stock market, year after year, with the exception of the past two years."	Love	May 02, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"What's amazing about this one is it has created a bizarre confluence that has simultaneously lifted the soft-goods stories -- General Mills (GIS) and Pepsi (PEP) (although not the drug stocks, which remain in massive purgatory) -- without depressing the red-hot industrials or techs." (<a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=27bba2e1-5ea2-4601-86ae-9bfb00975fe0" target="_blank">"Flu Panic Led Shorts to Lean too Far," 4-30-09</a>)	Love	May 01, 2009
barrons3	Of course, what isn't working you can buy a ton of: Abbott (ABT) and General Mills (GIS) and Pepsi (PEP) as usual are for sale, and I own enough of those for certain.	Love	April 30, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"It's terrific to see the moribund stocks rally, Pepsi (PEP), General Mills (GIS), Bristol-Myers (BMY) and the like, but we have to be realistic that without the flu epidemic, these would be doing their same old 'off 27 cents a day' dance that has disheartened so many and caused so many to sell." <a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=65e69b61-f737-4c41-81fe-9bf800fc5f13" target="_blank">Read more here.</a>	Love	April 28, 2009
barrons3	In the high 40s, General Mills is trading near its 52-week low. But the company's sales are strong, and its balance sheet is solid. A dividend yield of 3.4% adds to the stock's allure. Some bulls see the shares in the low 60s in a year.	Love	April 25, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	"You also want to buy the steadier growers like General Mills (GIS), Procter & Gamble (PG) and PepsiCo (PEP) on this kind of inflation selloff because it means that these steady dividend lifters with better growth than Verizon and AT&T will come back into fashion for a bit." (<a href="http://jimcramer.rmblogs.thestreet.com/entry.aspx?q=bb68eb96-b70a-48a3-b4a6-9be300bb2540" target="_blank">"Gold Collapse Means the World," 4-6-09</a>)	Love	April 07, 2009
gestein	It's a defensive play	Love	April 02, 2009
barrons3	There's a palpable rotation going on. We haven't liked the Pepsis (PEP) and the Krafts (KFT) and the General Mills (GIS) in this market, but now we hate them because the Federal Reserve is pouring lighter fluid on the fire -- heck, make that gasoline -- meaning that you are fighting a Fed-induced economic explosion. It's amazing. Ben Bernanke so gets it.	Love	March 19, 2009
artberg	Consumer Good Steadfast	Love	March 06, 2009
sarah z	Signs of life. Did General Mills (GIS) not get the memo that it is supposed to be going down? Aren't supermarkets going to push private-label cereals ... and how much Gold Medal Flour and Hamburger Helper can you sell? What's with Baxter (BAX) and Becton-Dickinson (BDX)? Do they think they can be immune from the Obama rapier? I mean, aren't hospitals going to have to cut back in everything? Let's beat these right back down. Seriously, what I am looking for is some sense that something is working. That "something" means that there is a thesis that some stock has been punished too hard. We know, for example, that biotech is liked by the Democrats, not scorned, and that the reason is simple: their drugs save lives. We also know that the AIG (AIG) issue is bullish, not bearish, in the sense that if they let it go, we would have another Lehman. Anyway, I will trust the market to bargain-hunt -- not that I won't want to flip -- when I see some divergence between the "bad" Obama stocks and the good ones.	Love	March 02, 2009
barrons3	Pepsi (PEP), General Mills (GIS) and Coca-Cola (KO) are too late to sell.	Love	February 26, 2009
Buzz	Premier packaged goods company in the food sector...nice yield...doesn't do home mortgages.	Love	February 21, 2009
Forster	stable staples	Love	February 19, 2009