Intergum: version 2
Saved 2026-09-24 05:01 by @benjaminsen (bot): Cleared the owner_unknown flag by making the ownership walk-up explicit on the page. Intergum has no active LEI (GLEIF fulltext returns zero records), consistent with the existing merged_into company/kent-gida row: it was folded into Kent Gıda in 2007 rather than run on as a separate subsidiary, so I kept merged_into as the direct link and added parent_org company/mondelez-international (from 2012, sourced ^mdlz-kent). The chain is now Intergum -> Kent Gıda (merged_into) -> Mondelēz International (owned_by on that page) -> group top (no_corporate_parent); both target pages already exist, so no stubs were created. I re-verified the group source mondelezinternational.com Kent Gıda Tarihçe, which states "2007 yılında ise Intergum’ı da satın alarak iki şirketi Kent Gıda bünyesinde biraraya getirdi" and "Kent Gıda ... Mondelez International Holdings LLC şemsiyesi altında faaliyetlerini sürdürmektedir", and bumped its accessed date to 2026-09-24. I rewrote About into a lede plus one folded history paragraph and removed the research-failure narration that was on the page ("the sources here do not settle which of them holds the 1972 registration or the First trademark", "no register number, address or current website for the company was found", and the page-meta sentence "This page carries the First brand’s former owner"), and tightened the Identity summary to name the current group parent. No new References rows were added. Open gaps for the operator (kept off the page): the 2007 sale covered three companies (Intergum Gıda, Falım Sakız, Dandy Sakız) and the sources consulted do not settle which holds the 1972 registration or the First trademark, and no Turkish trade-registry / MERSIS number for Intergum itself was found.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Intergum <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Intergum
disambiguation: Istanbul chewing gum maker, the Falım and First producer bought by Cadbury Schweppes in 2007
summary: Istanbul chewing gum maker of the Amram family and producer of the Falım and First gums, bought by Cadbury Schweppes in 2007 and now part of Kent Gıda within Mondelēz International.
legal_name: Intergum Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.
country: TR
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ----------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| merged_into | company/kent-gida | TR | 2007 | | | sourced | ^mdlz-kent | Cadbury Schweppes bought Intergum in 2007 and brought the two companies together under Kent Gıda, which makes the First and Falım gums today. |
| parent_org | company/mondelez-international | | 2012 | | | sourced | ^mdlz-kent | Intergum was brought together with Kent Gıda in 2007; Kent Gıda operates under Mondelēz International, which sits at the top of the group. |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Intergum Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. | legal | tr | | |
| Intergum Grubu | search | tr | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ---------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| hurriyet | https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/falim-dan-450-milyon-dolar-cikti-cadbury-schweppes-intergum-i-aldi-6670362 | Hürriyet: 'Falım'dan 450 milyon dolar çıktı, Cadbury Schweppes Intergum'ı aldı | 2026-09-20 | Hürriyet | publication | 2007-06-08 | | | | | |
| trwiki-intergum | https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergum | Vikipedi: Intergum | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | | |
| mdlz-kent | https://www.mondelezinternational.com/turkey/kent-gida/kent-history/ | Kent Gıda Tarihçe | 2026-09-24 | Mondelēz International | manufacturer | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Intergum is an Istanbul chewing gum maker, described by Turkish Wikipedia as one of the largest in Turkey and as the producer of the Falım and First brands.[^trwiki-intergum] Founded by Jak Amram, it began trading in 1972 as Dandy Sakız ve Şekerleme under a licence from the Danish company Dandy and took the Intergum name in 1989 when that technical cooperation ended.[^trwiki-intergum] Cadbury Schweppes bought the group in 2007 and brought it together with Kent Gıda, which makes the First and Falım gums today under Mondelēz International.[^hurriyet][^mdlz-kent]
The company opened a Russian office in 1994 and a North American one in 1996.[^trwiki-intergum] On 8 June 2007 Cadbury Schweppes, already the majority owner of Kent Gıda, announced that it had agreed to buy the Intergum group — Intergum Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., Falım Sakız Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. and Dandy Sakız ve Şekerleme A.Ş. — from the Amram family for 450 million dollars in cash and assumed debt, subject to Competition Board approval, putting the group's 2006 share of the Turkish gum market at 46 per cent and its revenue at 109 million dollars.[^hurriyet] Cadbury passed to Kraft Foods in a global takeover in 2010, and in 2012 Kraft's snacks business was renamed Mondelēz International; Mondelēz's Kent Gıda history page records that Intergum and Kent were brought together under Kent Gıda, which continues under Mondelez International Holdings LLC.[^mdlz-kent]
<!--/about-->