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 ...

William Wrigley, who is fondly referred to as the ‘father of chewing gum,’ transformed a small soap business into the top chewing gum manufacturer in the world. Although he did not invent ...

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 ...

"We're providing more reasons why consumers should chew," said Gil Leveille, Ph.D., executive director of the Wrigley Science Institute. But medical experts agree that gum chewing may be a tool ...

Procter & Gamble is already planning a rival gum carrying the Crest toothpaste name. Brands such as Orbit, which is made by Wrigley's, have already benefited from the idea that chewing sugar-free ...

While still in elementary school, he would buy packs of Wrigley’s chewing gum and bottles of Coca-Cola from his grandfather’s Nebraska grocery store and sell them around his neighborhood for a ...