---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-127594"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GIS"
cik: "0000040704"
company_name: "GENERAL MILLS INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T11:58:33.589113+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# General Mills approves global transformation plan with $130M charges, $70M expected in Q4 FY2025

## Summary
- Board approved multi-year global transformation initiative to drive productivity through process enhancements and organizational actions.
- Total anticipated charges of ~$130M, of which ~$120M are cash; ~$70M to be recorded in Q4 FY2025, primarily severance.
- Transformation expected to be substantially completed by end of fiscal 2028.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-127594
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GIS
- cik: 0000040704
- company_name: GENERAL MILLS INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40704/000119312525127594/0001193125-25-127594-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40704/000119312525127594/d908212d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-127594
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-127594.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-127594.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  GENERAL MILLS INC announced a restructuring with charges of approximately $130 million affecting global business processes.
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: approximately $130 million
  - Affected area: global business processes
  source text: On May 20, 2025, General Mills, Inc. (the “Company”) approved a multi-year global transformation initiative intended to drive increased productivity by enhancing end-to-end business processes, enabled by targeted organizational actions. The Company anticipates that the series of actions related to the transformation initiative will be substantially completed by the end of fiscal 2028 and will result in total charges of approximately $130 million, of which approximately $120 million will be cash.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40704/000119312525127594/0001193125-25-127594-index.htm

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