Gum chewing independently arose across different cultures and regions at different times, says Jennifer Mathews, an ...

Chewing Gum Owes Its Global Popularity To William Wrigley Jr. The biggest chewing gum empire started with soap. Having peddled his father's soap since he was 13, William Wrigley Jr. added a side ...

As Jones explained, a 2014 chemical analysis by the University of Arkansas revealed what Wrigley and other gum-makers would not: that sticks of chewing gum can contain everything from styrene ...

Wrigley’s Extra gum, known variously as Orbit ... in play that can still be flexed creatively to meet any markets’ needs.” For a long time, chewing gum has had a fairly bad image in terms of tooth ...

The gum became so popular that Wrigley gave up the baking powder business and went into chewing gum production. It turned out to be a good decision. By 1920, the average American was chewing 105 ...