General Mills: announces selling of Forno de Minas

Minneapolis / MN. (gm) General Mills Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to sell the Forno De Minas business to Laticínios Condessa, a supplier of food ingredients in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The sale includes the Forno De Minas brand, its production facility in Contagem (Minas Gerais) and other assets associated with the Brazilian bread business. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. The company restructured in April and stopped producing the bread products to focus on its faster growing businesses in Brazil. General Mills acquired Forno De Minas and Frescarini with its acquisition of the Pillsbury Company in 2001.