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The Wm. Wrigley Jr. 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 in Chicago, Illinois.
The company currently sells its products in more than 180 countries and maintains 14 factories in various countries, including 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 States dollar|US$" target="_blank" >*1.48 billion.
Subsidiaries
Brands
Gum (US)
- Juicy Fruit (1893)
- Wrigley's Spearmint (1893)
- Doublemint (1914)
- Freedent (1975)
- Big Red (1975)
- Extra (1984)
- Winterfresh (1994)
- Surpass (2001)
- Orbit (2001)
- Orbit White
- Eclipse (2001)
Gum (Canada)
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
- Orbit Professional
- P.K. (discontinued)
- Wrigley's Spearmint
Bubble Gum & Candy
See also
- Wrigley Field—Chicago
- Wrigley Field—Los Angeles
- Wrigleyville
- Wrigley Roof
- Wrigley Square
- Wrigley Building
- Catalina Island
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Data
1891 establishments | Food companies of the United States | Gum | Companies based in Illinois | Wrigley Brands | Fortune 1000
"Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company"