5 Biggest Chewing Gum Companies in the World

1. Mars Wrigley

Annual Revenue: $45 billion

Mars Wrigley is an American confectionery manufacturer and the biggest chewing gum company in the world. It accounts for 35% of the entire chewing gum global market.

Its iconic DoubleMint, as we’ve already mentioned previously, was the 2019’s most popular chewing gum in the world, generating $100 million in sales. Its other chewing gum brands include Wrigley’s SpearMint, Winterfresh, BigRed and Orbit. The gums also come in functional versions like zero-sugar.

Mars Wrigley sells its product in over a whopping 180 countries. The company directly operates in more than 50 countries and has 21 production houses in 14 countries. In addition to the United States, some of the prominent of these countries include Russia, China, France and India. It made $45 billion in sales in the fiscal year 2021.

Mars Incorporated has well over 130,000 employees as of 2021 and its Wrigley subsidiary employs roughly 16,000 people out of those. The company has an optimistic outlook in leading the industry through innovation. In the summer of 2022, it announced an investment of $40 million for its new global R&D hub in Chicago, whose construction is set to be completed sometime in 2023. 

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