The CEO of General Mills is Kendall J. Powell. Kendall Powell went to Harvard University where he got his bachelor’s degree in 1976. Kendall Powell also went to Stanford University where he got his master’s degree in 1979. The past positions that Kendall Powell held within the company as well as outside of the company is he spent more than a third of his career outside of the United States. In 1979, Powell joined the company General Mills and progressed through various positions in the company. He has helped Cereal Partners Worldwide in 1990. In 1996 he returned back to the United States where he became the president Yoplait USA and in 1997 he became the president of General Mills Big G cereal division. He then returned back to Switzerland in 1999 to become the chief executive officer of Cereal Partners Worldwide to help grow the joint venture. In 2006, the CEO Kendall Powell was elected president and chief operating officer of General Mills. The CEO was then elected chief executive officer in September 2007 and in May 2008 he became the chairman (http://www.generalmills.com/Company/Leadership/LeadershipDetails/?Lid=5c5f255d-b2c5-4e35-b7e4-52337a28d44c). The company was established in 1866 on the banks of Mississippi river where a man named Cadwallader Washburn built his first flour mill. This was the beginning of the company General Mills, the beginning of the milling industry with flour of superior baking properties. The company then took over the Midwestern region of the United States and it was also built in Minneapolis, Minnesota. No one didn’t believe that Washburn could supply the demand for flour from the Midwestern spring wheat. In 1856 Washburn formed the Minneapolis Milling Company to lease power rights to mill operators. And in 1866 is when Washburn built his first flour mills near the falls of St. Anthony on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Charles Pillsbury along with his father and uncle enter the flour business buying in a Minneapolis flour mill and that happened in 1869. In 1872 Charles Pillsbury began using four “X’s” and the best trademark on packaging and that signified the high quality of his flour. In 1874 Washburn built a second and even bigger facility. The year 1877 Washburn then partnered with John Crosby to form the business Washburn Crosby Company. Five years later Washburn Crosby