Pillsbury: version 1
Saved 2026-09-17 11:43 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **product/00018000001590 — Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls with Original Icing 17.5 oz**, from the wanted-queue row for UPC-E `01815900` ("grands sweet rolls", 2007 capture). **Identity settle. This is the current version.
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# Pillsbury <!--brand-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Pillsbury
disambiguation: American baking and dough brand, marketed in the United States by General Mills and Hometown Food Company
website: https://www.pillsbury.com
founded: 1869
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | --------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/general-mills | | 2001 | | | sourced | ^pillsburywiki | General Mills bought The Pillsbury Company from Diageo in 2001 and markets the refrigerated and frozen dough lines. Antitrust conditions kept the flour and cake-mix lines out of the deal; those were spun off and are marketed by Hometown Food Company, which uses the same round blue logo |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Pillsbury Doughboy | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| pillsbury | https://www.pillsbury.com/products/cinnamon-rolls/grands-original-cinnamon-rolls-with-icing | Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls with Original Icing (5 count) | 2026-09-17 | General Mills | manufacturer | | | Product Description, Prep Instructions, Ingredients, Product Allergens, Nutrition Facts | | | |
| pillsburywiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_Company | Pillsbury | 2026-09-17 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
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## About <!--about-->
Pillsbury is an American brand of baking and dough products that began in Minneapolis in 1869, when Charles Alfred Pillsbury and his uncle John S. Pillsbury founded C. A. Pillsbury and Company, a flour mill on the banks of the Mississippi.[^pillsburywiki] The Pillsbury Company later moved into restaurants and frozen foods and introduced the Doughboy mascot in 1965; Grand Metropolitan bought it in 1989 and sold it to General Mills in 2001.[^pillsburywiki] Today the round blue logo is used by two owners: General Mills markets the refrigerated and frozen dough, including canned biscuits, crescent rolls and the Grands! cinnamon rolls, while the shelf-stable flour and baking mixes passed to Smucker's in 2004 and to Brynwood Partners in 2018 and are sold by Hometown Food Company.[^pillsburywiki][^pillsbury]
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