“We are tremendously encouraged by the success and industry interest we’ve seen from our G-WIN open innovation program,” says Peter Erickson, senior vice president of Innovation, Technology and Quality at General Mills. “Not only have we seen a 300% increase in the number of innovation concepts submitted to us since we initiated G-WIN, but we are also seeing a higher percentage of high-quality, potentially game-changing technologies with broad application across our businesses.”
Owned by ProLogis and leased to Kraft, the building has achieved USGBC’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification and is the largest facility of its kind in the world to achieve this certification. The building was completed in the first half of 2007.