General Mills plans to cut about 700 more jobs

General Mills Inc. said Thursday that it will begin a new round of cost-cutting, chiefly in its international division, that will result in the elimination of 675 to 725 jobs over the next year.

The process will affect about 20 jobs in Minnesota, a company spokeswoman said. General Mills employs about 5,000 in the Twin Cities, though a round of cost-cutting announced last year led to the reduction of several hundred white-collar jobs here.

The international job cuts primarily affect salaried and administrative positions, company spokeswoman Kirstie Foster said in an e-mail. About half of General Mills’ 42,000 employees worldwide are outside of the United States.

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