Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company

About

The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, also known as the Wrigley Company, is an American confectionery and chewing gum company founded in Chicago on 1 April 1891 by William Wrigley Jr. and based since 2012 in the Global Innovation Center on Goose Island, Chicago; it is the largest manufacturer and marketer of chewing gum in the world, selling in 184 countries and districts and operating 21 production facilities in 14 countries.^[1] It bought Life Savers and Altoids from Kraft Foods in 2005, became a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated in 2008, and was merged with Mars Chocolate North America in 2016 to form Mars Wrigley Confectionery.^[1]

Relations

• Owned by Mars, Incorporated since 2008^[1] sourced
  Mars announced the acquisition in April 2008; Berkshire Hathaway held a minority equity investment until October 2016, when Mars took full control

Referenced by

• Brand owner at point of sale for Skittles Berry Bite Size Candies 191 g in Canada printed
  "Skittles is a registered trademark of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. ..." printed under the importer line; the end of the sentence is cut off at the photo edge. Wikipedia names the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars, as producer and marketer of Skittles (^wp-skittles)
• Brand owner at point of sale for Skittles Berry Bite Sized Candies 61 g in Canada printed
  "Skittles is a registered trademark of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company or its subsidiaries" printed under the ingredient list; Wikipedia names the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars, as producer and marketer of Skittles (^wp-skittles)
• Brand owner at point of sale for Skittles Original Bite Size Candies 191 g in Canada sourced
  Wikipedia: Skittles are produced and marketed by the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars; the 2017 back photo prints "Skittles is a registered trademark of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company or its subsidiaries" (^off-2017)
• Brand owner at point of sale for Skittles Original Bite Size Candies 61 g in Canada verified
  Older pack: "Skittles is a registered trademark of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company or its subsidiaries"; Wikipedia names the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars, as producer and marketer of Skittles (^wp-skittles). The trademark line of the 2023 pack is not visible in the photos
• Brand owner at point of sale for Skittles Sour Bite Size Candies 51 g in Canada sourced
  Wikipedia names the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars, as producer and marketer of Skittles; the photos of this pack do not show a trademark line
• Brand owner at point of sale for Wrigley's Extra Peppermint Sugarfree Gum 27 g sourced
  The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, known as the Wrigley Company or Wrigley's, owns the Wrigley gum brands; a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated since 2008
• Brand owner at point of sale for Wrigley's Extra Peppermint Sugarfree Gum 35 g sourced
  Extra is a Wrigley Company gum brand (^wp-extra); the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated since 2008, owns the Wrigley's gum brands
• Owns Skittles since 2008 verified
  Wikipedia: Mars' Wrigley division acquired the Skittles company in 2008 and produces and markets the candies; Canadian packs print "Skittles is a registered trademark of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company or its subsidiaries" (^off-back-2019)
• Inferred: Owns The Wrigley Company derived
  The Australian Business Register holds the Wrigley brand names Extra White, Juicy Fruit and Wrigley Hubba Bubba as business names of this company; no source read states the shareholding, so the group ownership is inferred from the brands and the pack
• Owns Wrigley's sourced
  Wikipedia: the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company is "also known as the Wrigley Company or simply Wrigley's"

Also known as

• Wrigley Company en

References

1. ↑ Wrigley Company Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-12. CC BY-SA. Wikipedia contributors.