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Since age-old times citizenry accept chewed on timberline sap, beeswax, parafin wax, bandbox wax and chicle, the sap from the Sapodilla tree. Chewing Gum, the moden day equivalent, may accept still been a almost tasteless confectionery had it not been for one actual acute salesman.

William Wrigley Jr. came to Chicago in the bounce of 1891. He was 29 years old, had in his pocket, and bedevilled absolute activity and abundant aptitude as a salesman. He started out affairs soap. As an added allurement to merchants to backpack Wrigley's soap, he offered them chargeless baking powder. When baking crumb accepted to be added accepted than soap, he switched to the baking crumb business. One day, Mr. Wrigley got the abstraction to action merchants chargeless chewing gum with anniversary can of baking powder. The chewing gum accepted added accepted than the baking crumb and the blow is history.

Wrigley\'s Chewing Gum

In 1893 Wrigley's appear Juicy Fruit followed a few months afterwards by Spearmint gum.

By 1920 architecture began on the Wrigley Building. A attribute of Chicago featured in endless articles, books, films, and television programs, the Wrigley Building and its characteristic building are an architectural admired amid Chicago's association and visitors.

During World War II, aggregation admiral Philip Wrigley led an abnormal move to abutment U.S. troops and and took Wrigley's Spearmint, Doublemint and Juicy Fruit off the noncombatant bazaar and committed the absolute achievement to the U.S. Armed Forces. Thanks to a able "remember the wrapper" announcement campaign, sales soared afresh afterwards the war ended.

In 1984 Extra Sugarfree Gum was alien as consumers became added anxious with the amoroso agreeable in foods and abnormally confectionery.

When argument on the ground, chewing gum will stick durably and can alone be removed with abundant difficulty. For this reason, the auction of chewing gum has been banned in Singapore back 1992.

In 2004, Wrigley's purchased the Life Savers and Altoids businesses from Kraft Foods and it now sells its articles in added than 180 countries and maintains 14 factories in assorted countries, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, France, Kenya, Taiwan, China, India, Poland, and Russia.

Today, Australians now chew added than 120 actor packs of Wrigley's gum per year. The newest flavours Juicy Fruit Citronic and Strappleberrry complete added like cyberbanking genitalia than gum.

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