Company
General Mills Sales
US subsidiary of General Mills named as distributor on Pillsbury retail packs and holder of GS1 company prefix 0016000.
- Registered in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Owned by
- General Mills
- Products here
- 13
Who owns General Mills Sales
Every company above General Mills Sales, the top of the group first, each tie from a cited source.
No company above it
owns
What the sources say about these ties
- General Mills owns
- Exhibit 21.1 to General Mills, Inc.'s fiscal 2026 Form 10-K lists it as a subsidiary of the registrant without naming the direct shareholder
Barcodes that start with General Mills Sales's number
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About General Mills Sales
General Mills Sales, Inc. is the General Mills group company named as the distributor on United States retail packaging: a Pillsbury refrigerated cinnamon roll can photographed in a store prints "DIST. BY GENERAL MILLS SALES, INC. • MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55440 USA" under the allergen sentence.[1] Exhibit 21.1 to General Mills, Inc.'s fiscal 2026 Form 10-K lists it among the subsidiaries of the registrant, beside The Pillsbury Company, LLC.[2] It is the group's GDSN trading partner for the United States: GS1's own list of GDSN member companies gives it GLN 0016000110007, which is issued out of GS1 company prefix 0016000.[3]
Prefix 0018000, the block that carries the Pillsbury dough, cookie and Toaster Strudel barcodes, is attributed to this company by inference. USDA FoodData Central, fed by GDSN, names General Mills Sales as brand owner of Pillsbury barcodes inside it,[4] and of the first 100 of the 326 Open Food Facts packs in the block read on 17 September 2026, 80 named Pillsbury and 16 more were unbranded Pillsbury or General Mills articles.[5] The prefix is the six-digit United States UPC manufacturer code 018000 in its 13-digit form. Those 100 rows hold no retail flour or dry cake mix, the Pillsbury lines that antitrust review kept out of General Mills' 2001 purchase of The Pillsbury Company and that Hometown Food Company now markets, so the block reads as the General Mills side of the brand.[6]
GS1 company prefix 0042800 is inferred, not sourced: USDA Branded Foods (GDSN) names GENERAL MILLS SALES INC. as brand owner of 0042800008831 (fdc 1456947), 0042800417527 (fdc 760564), 0042800289773 (fdc 761150) and 0042800428769 (fdc 2519311); of the first 30 Open Food Facts packs under 0042800* read on 2026-09-27, all are Totino's or Pappalo's General Mills articles. 0042800 is the six-digit US UPC company prefix 042800 in 13-digit form.
Sells under its name 11
The pack names General Mills Sales as the company the product is made for or marketed by.
Totino's Cheese Pizza Rolls 15 CountBrand owner Totino's, 7.5 oz 🇺🇸 042800005809
Totino's Cheese Pizza Rolls 48.8 ozBrand owner Totino's, 48.8 oz 🇺🇸 042800118394
Totino's Cheese Pizza Rolls 50 Count 24.8 ozBrand owner Totino's, 24.8 oz 🇺🇸 042800109217
Totino's Pepperoni and Bacon Pizza Rolls 24.8 ozBrand owner Totino's, 24.8 oz 🇺🇸 042800109545
Totino's Pepperoni Pizza Rolls 19.8 ozBrand owner Totino's, 19.8 oz 🇺🇸 042800008831
Totino's Pepperoni Pizza Rolls 24.8 ozBrand owner Totino's, 24.8 oz 🇺🇸 042800109538
Totino's Pepperoni Pizza Rolls 63.5 ozBrand owner Totino's, 63.5 oz 🇺🇸 042800118462
Totino's Pepperoni Pizza Rolls 7.5 ozBrand owner Totino's, 7.5 oz 🇺🇸 042800005830
All 11
Distributes 2
General Mills Sales brings these to a market; someone else makes them.
References
- ↑ Back of a Pillsbury cinnamon rolls can (5 rolls with icing) photographed in store: Nutrition Facts panel, full ingredient statement, allergen sentence and the "Dist. by General Mills Sales, Inc." line Open Food Facts. pack. Published 2020-02-22. Accessed 2026-09-17. Record: 0000001815900. imgid 1, 3036 x 4048 px, uploaded 2020-02-22; filed on Open Food Facts record 0000001815900, a Pillsbury cinnamon rolls entry whose barcode is not this article's. CC BY-SA 3.0. Open Food Facts contributors. Upstream: off.
- ↑ General Mills, Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal 2026, Exhibit 21.1: Subsidiaries of the Registrant U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. registry. Published 2026-07-01. Accessed 2026-09-23. Record: 0001628280-26-046466. Lists GENERAL MILLS SALES, INC. and THE PILLSBURY COMPANY, LLC, both United States.
- ↑ GS1 GDSN trading partners list GS1. registry. Accessed 2026-09-17. Entry "0016000110007 GENERAL MILLS SALES INC.".
- ↑ USDA FoodData Central, Branded Foods (GDSN), fdc_id 2753740, version 2026-02-19 U.S. Department of Agriculture. catalogue. Published 2026-02-19. Accessed 2026-09-23. Record: 2753740. GTIN 0018000001590; brand owner GENERAL MILLS SALES INC., brand Pillsbury; record modified 2026-01-29. CC0. Upstream: GDSN.
- ↑ Open Food Facts barcode block 0018000: 326 packs Open Food Facts. catalogue. Accessed 2026-09-17. 326 hits, read 2026-09-17; of the first 100 rows read that day, 80 name Pillsbury, 16 are unbranded rows whose names are Pillsbury or General Mills articles and 4 name other brands. ODbL. Open Food Facts contributors.
- ↑ Pillsbury Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-17. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia contributors.
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