16 Facts About Wrigley Company

Company, known as the Wrigley Company, is an American multinational chewing gum company, based in the Global Innovation Center in Goose Island, Chicago, Illinois.

Wrigley Company's is wholly owned by Mars, Incorporated, and, along with Mars chocolate bars and other candy products, makes up Mars Wrigley Company Confectionery.

Wrigley Company currently sells its products in over 180 countries and districts, operates in over 50 countries, and has 21 production facilities in 14 countries including the United States, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, Colombia, Poland, Russia, China, India, Japan, Kenya, Australia, and New Zealand.

Wrigley Company's gum was traditionally made out of chicle, sourced largely from Latin America.

Wrigley Company's announced the closure of its Santa Cruz, California manufacturing plant in April 1996.

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In 2005, Wrigley Company purchased Life Savers and Altoids from Kraft Foods for US$1.

In 2016, Mars announced that Wrigley Company would be merged with its chocolate segment to form a new subsidiary, Mars Wrigley Company Confectionery.

Wrigley Company offered premiums as an incentive to buy his soap, such as baking powder.

Wrigley Company became the majority owner of the Chicago Cubs in 1921.

Wrigley Company launched the "Remember this Wrapper" ad campaign to keep the Wrigley Company brands on the minds of the customers during times of wartime rationing.

Wrigley Company led a strategic global expansion by establishing Wrigley Company facilities in nine new countries.

Wrigley Company assumed control of the Chicago Cubs after his father's death in 1977, and sold the team to the Chicago Tribune in 1981.

William "Beau" Wrigley Company IV, following the death of Wrigley Company III, led the sugar-free gum campaign across Europe, Australia, Spain, India, and China.

Wrigley Company helped establish the Wrigley Company Science Institute in 2006 to study the oral health benefits of gum chewing.

Wrigley Company is responsible for the company's worldwide strategy, operations, and business performance.

In 2013, Wrigley Company temporarily halted production and sales of its new Alert energy gum after the US Food and Drug Administration said it would investigate the safety of added caffeine in food products.