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Mars, Incorporated

Mars, Incorporated
Private
Industry Food processing
Founded 1911; 106 years ago (1911)
Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Founder Franklin Clarence Mars
Headquarters 6885 Elm Street
McLean, Virginia, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Victoria B. Mars
(Chairman)
Grant F. Reid
(President and CEO)
Products Confectionery: Chocolate bars; gum; candy; mints; beverages; foodstuffs; pet food
Major brands in alphabetical order include: 3 Musketeers · 5 · Big Red · Bounty · Doublemint · Dove/Galaxy · Eclipse · Extra · Freedent · Hubba Bubba · Juicy Fruit · Life Savers · M&M's · Mars · Milky Way · Orbit · Pedigree · Skittles · Snickers · Starburst · Spearmint · Twix · Uncle Ben's Rice · Whiskas · Winterfresh · food · animal products
Services Animal care
Revenue IncreaseUS$33 billion (2014)
Owner Mars family
Number of employees
75,000+ (2014)
Subsidiaries Wrigley Company
Website www.mars.com

Mars is an American global manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products, and a provider of animal care services, with US$33 billion in annual sales in 2015, and is ranked as the 6th largest privately held company in the United States by Forbes. Headquartered in McLean, unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, US, the company is entirely owned by the Mars family. Mars operates in six business segments around the world: Chocolate (Hackettstown, New Jersey), Petcare (Brussels, Belgium, Poncitlán and Jalisco, Mexico), Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (Chicago, Illinois), Food (Rancho Dominguez, California), Drinks (West Chester, Pennsylvania), and Symbioscience (Germantown, Maryland), the company's life sciences division.

Mars is a company known for the confectionery items that it creates, such as Mars bars, Milky Way bars, M&M's, Skittles, Snickers, and Twix. They also produce non-confectionery snacks, such as Combos, and other foods, including Uncle Ben's Rice and pasta sauce brand Dolmio, as well as pet foods, such as Pedigree and Whiskas brands.


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