product lines from a single location or single supplier
“10-K Item 1A: 'Many of our product lines are manufactured at a single location or sourced from a single supplier.'”
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The most significant concentration General Mills discloses is product lines from a single location or single supplier, classified HIGH by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.
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Source: General Mills’s SEC Form 10-K filed — view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).
“10-K Item 1A: 'Many of our product lines are manufactured at a single location or sourced from a single supplier.'”
“10-K Item 1: 'Walmart Inc. and its affiliates (Walmart) accounted for 22 percent of our consolidated net sales and 31 percent of net sales of our North America Retail segment'”
General Mills' disclosed concentration risks pair a customer exposure with an operating one. Walmart and its affiliates accounted for 22% of consolidated net sales and 31% of North America Retail segment net sales, a low-share exposure at the company level that is noticeably larger inside the segment where the relationship matters most. This is a dependency on a single retail counterparty rather than a structural feature of the end market. The more consequential idiosyncratic risk sits on the supply side. The filing states that many product lines are manufactured at a single location or sourced from a single supplier, a high-share exposure with dependency character. A disruption at one plant or vendor could interrupt a whole product line regardless of how healthy demand or the Walmart relationship is. Netting these out, the customer exposure is a negotiating-leverage and shelf-space issue that moves gradually, while the single-site and single-supplier exposure is an event risk that could hit supply abruptly. Both are clearly disclosed in the filing, and the supply-side item is the one more likely to move the verdict.
For the engine’s reasoning on GIS’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.
| Symbol | Name | HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENT | Central Garden & Pet Company | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| CENTA | Central Garden & Pet Company | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| CPB | The Campbell's Company | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GIS● | General Mills, Inc. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| CAG | ConAgra Brands, Inc. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| BRBR | BellRing Brands, Inc. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.