About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Mars confectionery brands, Mars, Incorporated, M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, Pedigree Petfoods, Altoids, Starburst, Uncle Ben's Rice, Oxo, 3 Musketeers, Skittles, Galaxy, Dove, Royal Canin, Spangles, Maltesers, Promite, Bounty, Whiskas, CocoaVia, Revels, PB Max, Combos, Marathon, Topic, Ethel M Chocolate Factory, Balisto, M-Azing, Kudos, Celebrations, Treets, Minstrels, Munch, Sheba, Corn Quistos, Flyte, Tunes, Cookies &, Galaxy Bubbles, Tracker, Dolmio, Pacers, Mars Muffin. Excerpt: Mars, Incorporated is a worldwide manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products with US$30 billion in annual sales in 2008, and is ranked as the 5th largest privately-held company in the United States by Forbes. Headquartered in McLean, unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, USA, the company is entirely owned by the Mars family. Mars operates in six business segments in the U.S.: Chocolate (Hackettstown, New Jersey), Petcare (Franklin, Tennessee), Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (Chicago, Illinois), Food (Los Angeles, California), Drinks (West Chester, Pennsylvania), and Symbioscience (Rockville, Maryland). Mars is most famous for its eponymous Mars bar, as well as other confectionery such as Milky Way, M&M's, Twix, Skittles and Snickers. They also produce non-confectionery snacks (including Combos) and other foods (including Uncle Ben's and British pasta sauce brand Dolmio) as well as pet foods (such as Whiskas and Pedigree brands). Frank C. Mars, whose mother taught him to hand dip candy, sold candy by age 19. The Mars Candy Factory he started in 1911 with Ethel V. Mars, his second wife, in Tacoma, Washington, ultimately failed but it had already become a large employer, producing and selling fresh candy wholesale. By 1920, Frank Mars had returned to his home state, Minnesota, where the company was founded that year ...
