Appointment · 30 September 2026
GENERAL MILLS INC
GIS · Listed
Key facts
- How the CEO left
- Retirement
- Planned or abrupt
- Planned
- Successor
- Internal (a current executive)
- Outgoing CEO stays as
- Chair
- Signs it was forced
- None stated
- Other news alongside
- None
- Effective
- 1 January 2027
- Reason given
- retiring
Read from the filing and press release by a language model (Google Gemini), told to use only that text. It can make mistakes; the quotes below are the source.
The announcement
On September 29, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of General Mills, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Dana M. McNabb Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective January 1, 2027.
Ms. McNabb succeeds Jeffrey L. Harmening who is retiring as Chief Executive Officer and will remain Executive Chair of the Board.
On September 29, 2026, the Board approved adjusted compensation levels for Ms. McNabb to reflect her promotion to Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective January 1, 2027.
Sentences matched by our CEO change rules, from the first filing. Read the 8-K on SEC EDGAR ↗
Share price reaction
The filing reached SEC EDGAR on 30 September 2026 at 11:33 New York time, during trading hours, so day 0 is that same day. Day 0 is marked by the vertical line.
| Window | GIS | S&P 500 | Abnormal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days 0 to +1 | −6.4% | −0.0% | −6.2% |
| Days 0 to +3 | −6.3% | +1.4% | −5.5% |
| 1 month (days 0 to +21)so far, 20 of 22 days | +0.8% | +0.7% | +3.8% |
| 3 months (days 0 to +63)so far, 20 of 64 days | +0.8% | +0.7% | +3.8% |
The abnormal return is the stock's return beyond what its usual relationship with the market (beta -0.38) predicts. A single stock's move can reflect other news on the same days, so it describes what happened rather than measuring the effect of the CEO change; averages across many events are on the Research design page as they are completed.
News coverage
- General Mills names Dana McNabb as CEO ↗
cnbc.com · 30 September 2026 · Tone: neutral
- Cheerios maker General Mills names company veteran as CEO ↗
fooddive.com · 30 September 2026 · Tone: neutral
- General Mills names Dana McNabb as CEO, succeeding Jeff Harmening ↗
nypost.com · 30 September 2026 · Tone: neutral
Headlines from the day before the filing to three days after, found in the GDELT news index by company name, so an occasional match may be about something else. Tone is FinBERT's reading of the headline alone, a language model trained on financial news; it is not our view of the change.