TUESDAY U.S. Commerce Department will release current account trade deficit for the second quarter. National Association of Home Builders will report on the housing market index for September. Earnings report for FedEx, Schiff Nutrition International and Versar. WEDNESDAY Commerce Department will report on housing starts for August. National Association of Realtors will release existing home [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — An accident Wednesday at the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids resulted in the death of an employee from a contract firm. Emergency responders were dispatched around 3:15 p.m. to the plant at 4800 Edgewood Rd. SW for a report of a traumatic injury. A caller indicated a man was trapped between [...]
continue »MONDAY U.S. Commerce Department will report on new-home sales for May. Apollo Group earnings report. TUESDAY Standard & Poor’s will release the S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for April. The Conference Board will unveil its Consumer Confidence Index for June. H&R Block, Walgreen Co. and Sealy Corp. earnings reports. WEDNESDAY U.S. Commerce Department will report [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — It will likely be some time before employees of the General Mills plant in southwest Cedar Rapids learn if they will be affected by job cuts announced Tuesday by the Minnespolis-based company. In a move to slash costs, improve efficiencies and focus on key growth strategies, General Mills said it will eliminate [...]
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National corporate giveback programs raised more than $100,000 for local schools last year, but some programs disproportionately benefit schools with wealthier students, a Gazette analysis shows. Target has donated $324 million to schools across the nation since 1997 under its Take Charge of Education program, which provides 1 percent of purchases made with a Target [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS– The 2011 Especially For You® Race Against Breast Cancer, on Sun., Oct. 2, turned out to be the largest in the event’s 21-year history, with 15,792 people registering. That compares to the previous high of 15,464 in 2010. Proceeds from race registrations go to the Especially for You fund. This year more than [...]
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General Mills’ net income fell 14 percent in the first quarter, a fact that did not disappoint Wall Street. Shares of the food giant were up $1.97, or 5.2 percent shortly after noon as the company’s results beat analysts’ expectations. Strong new products, consumer demand and increased prices also gave the company’s shares a lift. [...]
continue »A truckload of food departed today from Cedar Rapids to feed children in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The truck, filled with 58 pallets of donated cereal, oatmeal, granola bars and fruit snacks from General Mills, Quaker Oats and Ralston Foods, will be driven to Miami. It will be loaded on a ship destined for Port Au Prince, [...]
continue »A chance at 20 job openings at a Cedar Rapids cereal factory overwhelmed General Mills with about 2,400 applicants over the weekend. Job applicants waited in line, at times for hours, at Prairie High School’s Concert Hall on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The massive turnout was not a problem for the company, spokeswoman Heidi Geller [...]
continue »Today’s article here: 2,400 job-seekers apply for 20 General Mills jobs Text of General Mills ad which appeared in The Gazette on Sunday, January 3, 2010 (and other days). Image is at bottom: GENERAL MILLS PRODUCTION EMPLOYEES General Mills is recruiting production employees for its Cedar Rapids plant. As a production worker, you will have [...]
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