General Mills reported lower second-quarter profit and sales as the company leans on price cuts to attract inflation-weary ...

Chris Richmond said in the 21 years his father, Chuck, worked at Pillsbury Mills in Springfield as a cooper and later as a plant painter and millwright, he never once set foot on the 18-acre property.

General Mills beat estimates for second-quarter sales and profit on Wednesday, as more consumers ate at home than dined out, ...

Former employees say the Doughboy was made before General Mills' origin story, which dates it at 1965. The sketched figure bears the brand mascot's familiar hat and scarf. Owners of the abandoned ...

The proposed demolition of one of Springfield's past economic drivers appears to be hand. The owners of the former Pillsbury Mills on the city's north end announced March 20 that they had secured ...

The Pillsbury Project has just taken a huge step forward in the safe demolition of the Pillsbury Mills, with over two million in funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency going toward ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — General Mills, Inc. is set to roll out three new Pillsbury products this summer. Pillsbury Filled Crescents are billed by General Mills as “the first refrigerated filled crescents on the ...

WASHINGTON — A business marriage of the Pillsbury Doughboy and Betty Crocker moved ahead Tuesday when the Federal Trade Commission deadlocked on approving General Mills Inc.’s $6.1 billion purchase of ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- It's generally not good news when two companies announce a major merger strategy, after which month after month is devoured by a protracted regulatory-review process. Indeed, some deals ...

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – It was the dog, stuck atop skyscraping grain silos on Springfield's northeast side in 2019, that forced Chris Richmond's hand. The stray had found its way to the top of the ...