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Mars, Incorporated
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American global food company and manufacturer
Key facts
- Company type
- Private
- Industry
- Food Veterinary services
- Founded
- June 23, 1911 ; 114 years ago ( 1911-06-23 ) in Tacoma, Washington , U.S.
- Founder
- Franklin Clarence Mars
- Headquarters
- McLean, Virginia , U.S.
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- John Franklyn Mars ( chairman ) Poul Weihrauch, ( president and CEO )
- Products
- Confectionery Gum Candy Mints Beverages Foodstuffs Cereals (outside North America) Crackers Toaster pastries Pet food and supplies
- Brands
- List of Mars Inc. brands
- Services
- Manufacturing , Veterinary
- Revenue
- US$ 50 billion (2024)
- Owner
- Mars family
- Number of employees
- 150,000 (2024)
- Divisions
- Mars Snacking Mars Petcare Mars Food Mars Edge
- Subsidiaries
- VCA Animal Hospitals
- Website
- mars.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1911
- Location
- McLean, United States
- Status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- chocolaterie
- Named after
- John Franklyn Mars
- Official name
- Mars, Incorporated
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Franklin Clarence Mars
- Headquarters
- United States
- Subsidiary
- Royal Canin
- Chairperson
- John Franklyn Mars
- Industry
- food processing
- Employees
- 80000
- Revenue
- 35000000000
- Legal form
- privately held company
- Official website
- www.mars.com
- Image
- Mars Incorporated, Veghel, Netherlands, 2013.jpg
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- inception
- 1911-06-23
- Commons category
- Mars, Incorporated
- topic's main category
- Category:Mars, Incorporated
- product or material produced
- Twix
- location of formation
- Minneapolis
- organizational division
- Wrigley Company
- social media followers
- 33904
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- different from
- Mars
- short name
- Mars
- partnership with
- International Fund for Agricultural Development
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Encyclopedic overview
Mars, Incorporated (doing business as Mars Inc.) is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services founded on June 23, 1911. Mars is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington metropolitan area, and is entirely owned by the Mars family. The company had US$45 billion in annual sales in 2022; that year Forbes ranked the company as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States.
Mars operates in four subsidiaries around the world: Snacking (headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with U.S. headquarters in Hackettstown and Newark, New Jersey), Petcare (Zaventem, Belgium; Poncitlán, Jalisco, Mexico; Querétaro, Mexico), Food (Rancho Dominguez, California) and Mars Edge (Germantown, Maryland), the company's life sciences division.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mars, Incorporated” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.