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The 'Wrigley Company' () was founded on April 1, 1891 originally selling products such as soap and baking powder. In 1892, William Wrigley, Jr., the company's founder, began offering chewing gum with each can of baking powder. The chewing gum eventually became more popular than the baking powder itself and Wrigley's reoriented the company to produce the popular chewing gum.
The corporate headquarters Wrigley Building is a well-known landmark on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
The company currently sells its products in more than 180 countries and maintains 14 factories in various countries, including the United States, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, New Zealand, the Philippines, France, Kenya, Taiwan, China, India, Poland, and Russia.
In 2004, Wrigley purchased the Life Savers and Altoids businesses from Kraft Foods for US$1.48 billion. On January 23, 2007 Wrigley signed a purchase agreement to acquire an 80 percent initial interest in A. Korkunov for $300 million with the remaining 20 percent to be acquired over time.

Contents

Corporate Leadership

Subsidiaries

Brands

Gum (US)

Gum (Canada)

Gum (Made by The Wrigley Company Ltd., Estover, Plymouth, UK)

See also

External links

Data

Corporate Leadership

On October 23, 2006, William D. Perez succeeded Bill Wrigley Jr., who will remain in the post as executive chairman, as CEO of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the world's largest chewing-gum manufacturer. He is the first person outside the Wrigley family to head the 114-year-old company. He will also join Wrigley's board of directors.

★ 1891-1932 - William Wrigley Jr. (1861-1932)

★ 1932-1961 - Philip K. Wrigley (1894-1977)

★ 1961-1999 - William Wrigley III (1933-1999)

★ 1999-2006 - William Wrigley, Jr. II (1964-)

★ 2006-current - William Perez

Subsidiaries

★ The Wrigley Company Limited

★ Amurol Confections Company

★ Northwestern Flavors, LLC

Brands

Gum (US)

★ Juicy Fruit (1893)

★ Wrigley's Spearmint (1893)

★ Doublemint (1914)

★ Freedent (1975)

★ Big Red (1975)

★ Extra (1984)

★ Winterfresh (1994)

★ Surpass (2001)

★ Orbit (reintroduced 2001)

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★ Orbit White

★ Eclipse (2001)

★ 5 (2007)

Gum (Canada)

★ Excel

★ Juicy Fruit

Gum (Made by The Wrigley Company Ltd., Estover, Plymouth, UK)

★ Active8 (discontinued)

★ Airwaves

★ Big Red (discontinued in 1998)

★ Doublemint

★ Extra

★ Freedent (discontinued)

★ Ice White - Later re-branded as Orbit Ice White

★ Juicy Fruit

★ Orbit

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★ Orbit Professional

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★ Orbit Complete

★ P.K (discontinued)

★ Wrigley's Spearmint
Products

★ Alpine Throat Relief

★ Altoids

★ Big League Chew

★ Bubble Tape

★ Cool Air

★ Eclipse

★ Excel

★ Hubba Bubba

★ Life Savers

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★ Gummi Savers

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★ Life Saver Minis

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★ Life Saver Fusions

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★ Creme Savers

See also

★ Wrigley Building

★ Wrigley Field—Chicago

★ Wrigley Field—Los Angeles

★ Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies—Catalina Island

★ Wrigley Roof

★ Wrigley Square

★ Wrigleyville

External links

★ Official site

★ Wrigley Candystand

★ Wrigley's press release

Data

★ Yahoo! — Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Company Profile