General Mills has licensed the Yoplait brand from Yoplait since 1977, and operates the Yoplait business in the United States. Today, General Mills Yoplait USA business holds the No. 1 brand position in the U.S. yogurt category.
The new structure is expected to allow for a more efficient rollout of increasingly bigger and more scalable innovations, and the optimization of resources behind strategic priorities.
With the addition of Kohinoor in India and Kamis in Poland, the company expects its percentage of sales from emerging markets to exceed 12 percent in 2012.
During his eight years at Unilever, Michael Polk is credited with transforming the company's business in the Americas and sharpening Unilever's portfolio strategy and creating a more competitive, faster growing, innovation-driven organization.
