LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Britain's Cadbury Schweppes Plc is locking horns this week with chewing gum giant Wm Wrigley Jr Co as it launches major new products to try and break Wrigley's near-monopoly ...

Up in a lab in Mars Wrigley’s Goose Island innovation center, a machine mimics how people chew gum. Chewbacca, as it is affectionately called, spurts green liquid into its chambers to imitate saliva, ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- William Wrigley Jr.'s family spent more than 115 years building the soap salesman's fledging company into a massive corporation that made chewing gum a mass-market product. But Monday, ...

(Crain’s) — Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.’s advertising claims that its Eclipse gum kills germs that cause bad breath has caused a stink with rival Cadbury and the Council of Better Business Bureaus. A division ...

"I guess people chew harder when they are sad," William Wrigley Jr. said during the Great Depression, as his gum empire kept ...

The now-ubiquitous bar code started out 40 years ago when a pack of Wrigley's gum was scanned. How's the barcode evolving in the age of mobile technology? GS1 U.S. president and CEO Bob Carpenter ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. will overhaul the packaging and flavor of its ubiquitous stick gums, including Doublemint, Juicy Fruit, Big Red and Extra brands, as part of an effort to revive ...

CHICAGO — The Oracle of Omaha is betting that the country's candy jar is recession-proof. With financing from Warren Buffett, candy maker Mars Inc. on Monday said it is buying confectioner Wm. Wrigley ...