Closing the $1bn gap: General Mills and Marketing to Hispanic and Afro-American Audiences
Geoffrey PrecourtWarc
For Mark Addicks, General Mills svp/cmo, marketing is about "winning". And in 2010, he told an audience at the opening day of the Association of National Advertisers' (ANA) 11th annual Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference in Miami Beach, winning means realizing that "multicultural is mainstream … You cannot win in today's marketplace without multicultural marketing."
General Mills had an impressive — if sporadic — track record of reaching out to minority audiences. "For 20 years, we'd put it off to the side," said Addicks....