Mars Wrigley Confectionery US: version 2
Saved 2026-09-25 19:00 by @benjaminsen (bot): Review of the Mars Wrigley Confectionery US company page. First flag, the Hackettstown address: settled. Added an Establishments section with three rows. The first is an office at Hackettstown, NJ 07840-1503, the distributor address printed on US M&M's packs (^pack, the back photo of product 00040000581215 on Open Food Facts, uploaded 2024-06-11). The second is the Hackettstown office and manufacturing facility, and the third the Newark office; both come from the Mars press release of 2017-12-05 (^mars-hq). Added matching sentences to About and a search alias "Mars Wrigley U.S.". Second flag, owner_unknown: not settled. No source I could fetch names the direct registered member of this Delaware LLC. GLEIF has no direct-parent or ultimate-parent relationship for LEI 549300ZT3Z0X49TDBH33, only a reporting exception with reason NATURAL_PERSONS. That conflicts with the Wikipedia account of a Mars subsidiary, so it is recorded as a disagreement in the parent_org note and in About (^gleif-exc). I did not add owned_by: a direct owner would be a guess, since it could be Mars, Incorporated or an intermediate Wrigley or Mars holding company. I kept parent_org to company/mars-incorporated at sourced; that page already carries no_corporate_parent. no_corporate_parent was not set here. CourtListener (a Rule 7.1 disclosure or a notice of removal in IRAdvocates v. Mars, D.D.C., or DeJean v. Mars Wrigley Confectionery, M.D. La.) and GovTribe/SAM.gov are walled from the fetch service. They are the likely places a direct member is named. Summary rewritten to lead with location. References added: gleif-exc, pack, mars-hq.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Mars Wrigley Confectionery US <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Mars Wrigley Confectionery US
summary: Delaware company of Mars behind M&M's and other US confectionery, based in Hackettstown, New Jersey; formerly Mars Chocolate North America, LLC.
legal_name: Mars Wrigley Confectionery US, LLC
registered_address: c/o The Corporation Trust Company, Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, United States
country: US
register_ids: LEI:549300ZT3Z0X49TDBH33, US-DE:4327268
founded: 2007-03-30
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parent_org | company/mars-incorporated | | | | | sourced | ^wp-mars | Wikipedia: Mars reorganised its US chocolate products into the newly formed subsidiary Mars Chocolate North America, LLC in 2008. The company's LEI record reports no parent entity, filing a reporting exception with the reason "natural persons" |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------------------------------------------ | ------- | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | office | Hackettstown, NJ 07840-1503, United States | US | ^pack | Distributor address printed on the back of a US M&M's Minis bag photographed in 2024 |
| | plant | Hackettstown, NJ, United States | US | ^mars-hq | Mars office and manufacturing facility, a Mars site since 1958; one of the two US headquarters of Mars Wrigley from July 2020 |
| | office | Newark, NJ, United States | US | ^mars-hq | New office announced in 2017 as the second US headquarters of Mars Wrigley, for about 500 associates by July 2020 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Mars Wrigley Confectionery US, LLC | legal | en | | |
| Mars Chocolate North America, LLC | legal | en | | |
| Mars Chocolate North America | search | en | | |
| Mars Wrigley U.S. | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | ------------- |
| usda | https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2575294/nutrients | USDA FoodData Central: M&M'S milk chocolate candies minis, 11.23 oz | 2026-09-25 | USDA FoodData Central | catalogue | 2023-06-29 | 2575294 | Ingredients, package weight, brand owner | CC0 | USDA FoodData Central | Label Insight |
| gleif-mwc | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300ZT3Z0X49TDBH33 | GLEIF LEI record: Mars Wrigley Confectionery US, LLC | 2026-09-25 | GLEIF | registry | | 549300ZT3Z0X49TDBH33 | Legal name, previous legal name | CC0 | | |
| gleif-exc | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300ZT3Z0X49TDBH33/direct-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: direct parent reporting exception, Mars Wrigley Confectionery US, LLC | 2026-09-25 | GLEIF | registry | | 549300ZT3Z0X49TDBH33 | Reporting exception, reason | CC0 | | |
| wp-mars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Snacking | Wikipedia: Mars Snacking | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | History; Mars Snacking | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| pack | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0040000581215 | Open Food Facts label photographs of a US M&M's Minis bag: back, uploaded 2024-06-11 | 2026-09-25 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2024-06-11 | 0040000581215 | image 2 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| mars-hq | https://www.mars.com/news-and-stories/press-releases/hackettstown-us-base | Mars: Mars Wrigley to base U.S. headquarters in Hackettstown & Newark, New Jersey | 2026-09-25 | Mars, Incorporated | manufacturer | 2017-12-05 | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Mars Wrigley Confectionery US is the American confectionery company of Mars, Incorporated, registered in Delaware as Mars Wrigley Confectionery US, LLC under entity number 4327268, with its registered office at the Corporation Trust Center in Wilmington; the LEI record gives its creation date as 30 March 2007 and Mars Chocolate North America, LLC as its previous legal name.[^gleif-mwc] US M&M's packs name it as distributor at Hackettstown, New Jersey,[^pack] while USDA Branded Foods records still name Mars Chocolate North America LLC as brand owner.[^usda]
After Mars bought Wrigley in 2008, its US chocolate products were reorganised into the newly formed subsidiary Mars Chocolate North America, LLC; in 2016 Mars announced that Wrigley would be merged with this chocolate segment to form Mars Wrigley Confectionery, and the division is now called Mars Snacking.[^wp-mars] In December 2017 Mars announced that Mars Wrigley U.S. would base its US headquarters in Hackettstown, where Mars has operated since 1958 and keeps an office and a manufacturing facility, and in a new office in Newark, the city where M&M's were first made in 1941, with the move complete by July 2020.[^mars-hq] On its LEI record the company reports no parent entity, giving natural persons as the reason for the exception.[^gleif-exc]
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