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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · General Mills (GIS)

General Mills names Dana McNabb CEO effective January 1, 2027

Neutral Impact 4 of 5 leadership Written later

General Mills' board elected Chief Operating Officer Dana McNabb as chief executive, succeeding Jeffrey Harmening, who is retiring as CEO and will serve as Executive Chair of the board. Both appointments take effect January 1, 2027, and the board also set new pay levels for each executive.

Key points

  • McNabb's CEO base salary will be $1,350,000, with an annual cash incentive target of 180% of base salary, plus an incremental long-term incentive award of $2,100,000.
  • Harmening's base salary as Executive Chair will be reduced to $1,100,000, and his annual cash incentive target will decrease to 125% of base salary.
  • McNabb has been Chief Operating Officer since June 2026 and joined General Mills in 1999.

The filing

CompanyGeneral Mills (GIS)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECSep 30, 2026, 7:33 AM ET
Accession number0001628280-26-063892

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 12:42 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on September 30, 2026.

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