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The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, known as the Wrigley Company, is an American multinational candy and chewing gum company, based in the Global Innovation Center (GIC) in Goose Island, Chicago, Illinois. [1] Wrigley's is a subsidiary of Mars Inc., and, along with Mars chocolate bars and other candy products, makes up Mars Wrigley Confectionery. [2]
Mars Inc. (legally Mars, Incorporated) is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services, with US$45 billion in annual sales in 2022; [7] that year Forbes ranked the company as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States. [8]
The Mars family is an American family that owns the confectionery company Mars Inc. In 1988, the family was ranked as the richest family in the United States of America by Fortune magazine. It has since been surpassed by the Walton family and the Koch family, and was ranked as the third richest family in America in 2016. [1]
Mars operates in five business segments around the world: Mars Wrigley Confectionery (headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with US headquarters in Hackettstown and Newark, New Jersey), Petcare ...
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The candy conglomerate’s first investment in vet clinics came in 1994, when Mars acquired a stake in Banfield Pet Hospital. In 2007, it bought the rest of Banfield. In 2007, it bought the rest ...
Mars Wrigley is closing a nearly century-old chocolate plant on Chicago’s West Side once hailed as the most beautiful candy factory in America. Built in a Spanish-style architecture in 1928, the ...
Mars' Wrigley division acquired the Skittles company in 2008. The name of the candy, Skittles, comes from the sports game of the same name, named as such for the resemblance of the sweet to items used in the game. [7] Skittles' "taste the rainbow" theme was created by the New York ad agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. [9]