SPECIMEN - The Pillsbury Company Stock Certificate

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SPECIMEN - The Pillsbury Company Stock Certificate
SPECIMEN - The Pillsbury Company Stock Certificate
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SPECIMEN - The Pillsbury Company Stock Certificate. Nice eagle vignette! Unissued!
Key Dates and company history
1869: Charles A. Pillsbury establishes the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company.
1872: Pillsbury's Best XXXX becomes a registered trademark.
1889: The company is purchased by an English financial syndicate, merges with a competitor, and is renamed the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Co. Ltd.
1923: Pillsbury severs all ties with its English parent.
1951: Ballard & Ballard Company is acquired.
1965: Poppin' Fresh, the Pillsbury Doughboy, makes his first appearance.
1967: Pillsbury purchases fast-food chain Burger King.
1979: Frozen vegetable brand Green Giant is added to the company's arsenal.
1989: Pillsbury is acquired by Grand Metropolitan plc.
2001: General Mills Inc. acquires Pillsbury.
The Pillsbury Company is one of the oldest and most recognized firms in American food retailing. From its beginnings in flour milling in the late 1800s, Pillsbury has grown into the leading refrigerated dough brand in the United States, with a product arsenal that includes a variety of biscuits, breadsticks, cookies, pie crusts, crescent rolls, and bread. Pillsbury also manufactures and sells frozen breakfast pastries, frozen pancakes and waffles, and the Jeno's and Totino's brands of frozen pizza products. In 1989, Pillsbury was acquired by Grand Metropolitan plc, a diversified British beverage company. General Mills Inc. became one of the largest food companies in the world after buying Pillsbury for .4 billion in 2001.
No certificates are accepted unseen from a printer. No matter how much checking has been done, there is always the chance of a typographical error creeping in and causing untold financial damage to the issuer. For this reason, prior to final printing a small quantity of "specimen" certificates will be produced by the printer for final verification. These items will usually be clearly marked "specimens" either by means of overprint or perforated cancellations holes. In some cases they can be further identified by a "0000" serial number.
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