Study reveals why chewing gum might actually help with focus and stress relief

Brain imaging studies shed light on why humans have chewed gum for 8,000 years with research showing chewing activates ...
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The mysterious cognitive effects of chewing gum

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

Mars buying gum maker Wrigley with financing from Buffett

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, ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Wrigley to make over gum packaging, flavor

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 ...
The Roanoke Times

Wrigley sales down

The name Wrigley is synonymous with a baseball field and a very tall building in Chicago, but when most people think of Wrigley, they think of chewing gum. For more than a century, Wrigley has been ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Wrigley granted patent to put Viagra in chewing gum

Two years ago an investor in Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. stood up at the company's annual meeting and asked a favor of Chairman Bill Wrigley Jr.