General Mills (GIS)

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column; 0 means it reported zero. Figures are as printed in the filing, without adjustment.

Three-year trend — total compensation per named executive

Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.

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Every insider equity transaction reported on Form 4 after the 2026 proxy statement — acquisitions, dispositions, exercises, and withholdings — and therefore not reflected in any table in that document.

Transaction codes per Form 4: A acquisition · S open-market sale · F tax withholding · M option exercise · G gift. Value = shares × price as reported. Dividend-equivalent and fractional-share accrual rows (derivative Class A, under $10,000 and under 2,000 shares) are aggregated per date; every row appears in full below.

Our compensation program is designed to attract, motivate, reward, and retain superior leaders who consistently pursue initiatives and execute strategies that contribute to strong company performance and total return to shareholders. The compensation and talent committee bases its compensation decisions on the following core principles: Compensation design supports our business strategy; Pay is performance-based; Compensation opportunities are competitive.

Rows are labeled by annual-meeting year, with the meeting date beside each; the vote held in a given year acts on the prior fiscal year's compensation.

Say-on-pay — history, company's computation

a. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

b. Approved under the standard stated in the filing — “Vote Required for Proposals How Votes are Counted Item Proposal Approval Standard Voting Choices Broker Discretion to Vote (1) Impact of Abstention Treatment of Broker Non-Vote Board Recommendation 1 ELECT AS DIRECTORS THE 11 NOMINEES NAMED IN THE PROXY STATEMENT Majority of votes cast (2) FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN No No effect No effect FOR 2 APPROVE ADVISORY VOTE ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION The Board will consider shareholders to have indicated their non-binding support for executive compensation if a majority of the votes cast are voted FOR the proposal FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN No No effect No effect FOR 3 RATIFY THE APPOINTMENT OF KPMG LLP AS GENERAL MILLS' INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR OUR FISCAL YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 2026 Majority of votes cast FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN Yes No effect No effect FOR 4-5 SHAREHOLDER PROPOSALS, IF PROPERLY PRESENTED Majority of votes cast FOR AGAINST ABSTAIN No No effect No effect AGAINST (1) If you hold your shares in street name and do not provide voting instructions to your broker, your broker may not vote your shares on any proposal except Proposal Number 3.”.

c. Approved under the standard stated in the filing — “Although abstentions are counted as present at the 2024 Annual Meeting for purposes of determining whether there is a quorum under our by-laws, they are not treated as votes cast on any proposal, and they will not have an effect on the vote.”.

Approval percentages are the company's own reported computations under its own stated standard, not recomputed by Velarion. Where a company does not state a standard, none is assumed.

Computed as the sum of the director compensation table rows above; inputs and formula shown in the register.

The compensation peer group as the company disclosed it in its own proxy — the reference set behind the percentile above.

Of the companies General Mills names as compensation peers, which name it back in their own disclosed peer groups. A peer set the market reciprocates reads differently from one selected in a single direction.

Reciprocity shown where the peer's own current proxy has been read — each mark is cited in the register to that peer's filing. A dash means the peer's current proxy was read and names no reciprocal group including General Mills.

Most recent fiscal-year chief executive compensation at each disclosed peer, taken from that company's own proxy statement.

Each peer's compensation is from its most recently filed proxy; fiscal years differ by company. Each peer's figures come from its own filings; the subject company is highlighted. Peers whose chief executive compensation is outside our coverage universe are stated as such, never left blank.

Read from each company's Compensation Discussion and Analysis: annual incentive payout as a percentage of target, the disclosed long-term vehicle mix, whether performance-share measures include a total shareholder return component, and the retained compensation consultant. “Not disclosed” appears only where the company's filing does not state the item.

Answers are drawn only from the figures disclosed in this brief and cited to their location in the source filing. Where a figure required for an answer is not disclosed, that is stated rather than estimated.

Each figure's location is given both for the eye (section · page · table · row · column) and for a script (table/row/column index and exact character span in the filed document). Any figure can be independently confirmed against the source.

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