The William Wrigley Jr. Company was founded in 1891 to sell soap and baking powder. It started packaging gum with its baking powder the following year and the company reorganized itself as the gum ...
"Leaving aside chewing gum, in which Wrigley is dominant ... Buffett agreed to purchase $2.1 billion of Wrigley's preferred stock, which paid a 5% annual dividend and gave him a 10% stake in ...