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Pillsbury
Pillsbury may refer to: Business * Pillsbury Company, a former producer of grain and other foodstuffs, a brand only after being bought in 2001 * Pillsbury Chemical and Oil, a defunct specialty chemical manufacturer * Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, an international law firm Places United States * Pillsbury, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Pillsbury, North Dakota, a city * Lake Pillsbury, an artificial lake in the Mendocino National Forest, California * Pillsbury Crossing, a natural limestone crossing and waterfall in Riley County, Kansas * Pillsbury Formation, a geologic formation in Kansas * Pillsbury Lake, located northwest of Sled Harbor, New York * Pillsbury Shale, a geologic formation in Kansas * Pillsbury State Forest, Minnesota * Pillsbury State Park, located mainly in Washington and partially in Goshen, New Hampshire Elsewhere * Pilsbury, a hamlet in the English county of Derbyshire Other uses * Pillsbury (surname), a list of people named Pillsbury or Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pillsbury Company
The Pillsbury Company is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company that was one of the world's largest producers of cereal, grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought by General Mills in 2001. General Mills brands consist of Annie's, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, Yoplait, Haagen-Dazs, and Blue Buffalo. It also has ownership in various cereal products including Cheerios, Chex, Lucky Charms, Trix, and Cocoa Puffs. Antitrust law required General Mills to sell off some of the products, so the company kept the rights to refrigerated and frozen Pillsbury branded products, while dry baking products and frosting were sold to the Orrville, Ohio–based The J.M. Smucker Company, Smucker company under license. Brynwood Partners agreed to purchase Pillsbury from Smuckers for 375 million in July 2018. In September 2018, the sale was completed along with other brands including Martha White and Hungry Jack. Advertising company Leo Burnett Worldwide created Pillsbury's Pillsbury Doughboy, Dough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pillsbury Chemical And Oil
Pillsbury Oil and Chemical is now a defunct manufacturer of industrial lubricants and coolants. The company was located at 139 Summit Street in Southwest Detroit, south of the Mexican Village, between Fort Street and Jefferson Avenue, and near the Detroit Marine Terminal. Shortly after being acquired by Novamax, Inc., in 1992, the site had been used solely for subcontracted manufacturing, under the name of Tolling Specialties, Inc., of ex-Pillsbury’s main brand product lines which by then were marketed from Novamax, Inc. Livonia facility. According to one of the ex-employees, Pillsbury Oil and Chemical started when Henry Ford set George Pillsbury up in business to make a heavy duty drawing/stamping compound (Drawco P-10, the flagship of the company's famed Drawco product line) for his River Rouge Plant. According to another account, George Pillsbury was a relative of the Pillsbury's of cake and pastry fame. Summit Street was not its original location, and it originally h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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