Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: version 1

Saved 2026-09-12 15:50 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Wrigley's Extra Peppermint Sugarfree Gum 27 g**, EAN-8 93613910 (GTIN-14 00000093613910), from the wanted list (old title "extra sugarfree chewing gum 14 piece pack"). The Australian/New Zeala. This is the current version.

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# Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
legal_name: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
country: US
founded: 1891-04-01
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                    | market | from | until | ended | status  | source      | note                                                                                                                                               |
| -------- | ------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/mars-incorporated | global | 2008 |       |       | sourced | ^wp-wrigley | Mars announced the acquisition in April 2008; Berkshire Hathaway held a minority equity investment until October 2016, when Mars took full control |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name            | type   | locale | from | until |
| --------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Wrigley Company | name   | en     |      |       |
| Wrigley's       | search | en     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref        | url                                           | title           | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator | licence  | attribution            | upstream |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------------- | --------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | -------- | ---------------------- | -------- |
| wp-wrigley | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Company | Wrigley Company | 2026-09-12 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           |         | CC BY-SA | Wikipedia contributors |          |
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## About <!--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.[^wp-wrigley] 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.[^wp-wrigley]
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