Mars Confectionery
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| Private | |
| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | 1911 Tacoma, Washington, U.S. |
| Founder | Franklin Clarence Mars |
| Headquarters | 6885 Elm Street McLean, Virginia, U.S. |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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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 |
 US$33 billion (2014)
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| Owner | Mars family |
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Number of employees
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80,000 (2017) |
| Subsidiaries | Wrigley Company |
| Website | www |
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: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (Chicago, Illinois), Chocolate (Hackettstown, New Jersey; to be integrated with Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company and based in Chicago, Illinois from 2017), Petcare (Brussels, Belgium, Poncitlán and Jalisco, Mexico), 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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