As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 24, 2003 Registration No. 33-62729 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 -------------------------- GENERAL MILLS, INC. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 41-0274440 (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification No.) -------------------------- Number One General Mills Boulevard Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426 (Address, including zip code, of principal executive offices) (763) 764-7600 (Registrant's telephone number, including area code) ------------------------- General Mills, Inc. 1995 Salary Replacement Stock Option Plan (Full title of the plan) ------------------------- SIRI S. MARSHALL, Esq. Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary Number One General Mills Blvd. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426 (763) 764-7230 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) -------------------------- This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is being filed to de-register 389,739 shares of Common Stock of General Mills, Inc. (the "Registrant"). Such shares were registered under a Registration Statement on Form S-8, Registration No. 33-62729, for purchase under the Registrant's 1995 Salary Replacement Stock Option Plan. The Plan has been terminated, and all rights to purchase shares under the Plan have been exercised or have expired. The Registrant intends to carry forward 260,000 of the deregistered shares to a new Registration Statement on Form S-8 covering a separate benefit plan of the Registrant. SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Golden Valley (Minneapolis), State of Minnesota, on the 24th day of January, 2003. GENERAL MILLS, INC. ) ) ) By Stephen W. Sanger ) /s/ Siri S. Marshall -------------------------------- ) --------------------------- Chairman of the Board and ) Siri S. Marshall Chief Executive Officer ) Attorney-in-fact Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated. Signature Title --------- ----- /s/ Kenneth L. Thome Senior Vice President, January 21, 2003 --------------------------- Financial Operations Kenneth L. Thome (Principal Accounting Officer) /s/ Stephen R. Demeritt Vice Chairman January 21, 2003 --------------------------- Stephen R. Demeritt /s/ Raymond G. Viault Vice Chairman January 21, 2003 --------------------------- Raymond G. Viault Stephen W. Sanger Chairman of the Board ) and Chief Executive Officer) L. D. DeSimone Director ) William T. Esrey Director )/s/ Siri S. Marshall Judith Richards Hope Director )---------------- A. Michael Spence Director )Siri S. Marshall Dorothy A. Terrell Director )Attorney-in-fact )January 24, 2003 Director --------------------------- Paul S. Walsh Director --------------------------- Raymond V. Gilmartin Director --------------------------- Robert L. Johnson Director --------------------------- John M. Keenan Director --------------------------- Heidi G. Miller Director --------------------------- Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg s8/1995 Salary Replacement SOP