On this Pillsbury halloween cookies the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Pillsbury Company is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company that was one of the world’s largest producers of grain and other foodstuffs until it was bought by General Mills in 2001. Advertising company Leo Burnett Worldwide created Pillsbury’s Doughboy and Jolly Green Giant, which are two of the agency’s top brand icons.

Pillsbury and Company” was founded in 1869 by Charles Alfred Pillsbury and his uncle John S. In 1889, Pillsbury and its five mills on the banks of the Mississippi River were purchased by a British company. In 1923, the Pillsbury family reacquired “Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company, Limited” which subsequently was incorporated in 1935 as “Pillsbury Flour Mills Company”. Only seven products used the Pillsbury name in 1950, but the company began adding to its product line.