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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (575)	5/22/2002 11:34:12 AM
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General Mills Has Named HP Its Preferred IT Vendor in Multi-year Contract; HP to Provide All IT Hardware in 70 Countries Worldwide PALO ALTO, Calif., May 22, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HP (HPQ) today announced that General Mills, a $13 billion global manufacturer and marketer of consumer food products, has signed a three-year, multi-million dollar agreement making HP its preferred IT vendor. The worldwide agreement covers all of the General Mills divisions in the 70 countries in which it operates. FRONT PAGE NEWS U.S. stocks muster a gain after early dip Nikkei at 9-month high; yen drops as BOJ steps in Mutual fund group urges tougher disclosure rules EMC shareholder activist scores post-Enron victory Sign up to receive FREE e-newsletters: Get the latest news 24 hours a day from our 100-person news team. "We went through the standard RFP process, accepting bids from a number of vendors," said Gary Carlson, director of IT, General Mills. "HP not only had the most competitive pricing, but also had the most breadth in products and services to offer." HP is now able to provide all of General Mills' IT hardware needs. This latest agreement covers notebooks, desktop PCs and industry-standard HP ProLiant servers. General Mills uses ProLiant servers for all of its Windows(R) 2000 applications as well as its Web servers, file and print servers and e-mail servers. Prior to this agreement, the company was already using HP's UNIX servers for its SAP applications. "Partners and customers choose to work with HP with increasing frequency because of the breadth of our technologies and services, and because we are intimately familiar with the challenges and needs facing business and IT executives today," said Jim Milton, senior vice president and Americas managing director, HP. "The new HP is focused on customers and their needs with laser-like precision and as a result we're already demonstrating tremendous momentum in the marketplace."