New Candy King: Mars-Wrigley

[kstar]

$23B deal will create the world's largest candy company. Buffett apparently helped with some of the financing and will end up with a minority interest in the new company.

I'm more interested in some of the possible new treats.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90AVGF00&show_article=1

FYI.

[kstar]

Here are the Mars labels (from Wikipedia):

*edit: I never knew about the pet foods!*


3 Musketeers
Aquarium Pharmaceuticals (recently renamed to Mars Fish Care)
Bounty
Buckeye Nutrition
Celebrations
Cesar (Dog Food)
Dove Chocolate
Fling
Flyte
Galaxy
Greenies
Kudos
Lockets
M&M's
Maltesers
Mars Bar
Mars Delight
Mars Planets (newly introduced in the UK)
M-Azing
Medi-Cal (Prescription Pet Food)
Milky Way
Minstrels
Nutro
Pedigree
Pill Pockets
Promite
Revels
Royal Canin (Pet Food)
Schmackos
Seeds of Change
Sheba (cat food)
Skittles
Snickers Marathon Energy Bar
Snickers
Spillers
Starburst
Techni-Cal
Topic
Tracker
Twix
Whiskas
Winergy

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Here are the Wrigley labels (from Wikipedia):

Gum (US)

Juicy Fruit (1893)
Wrigley's Spearmint (1893)
Doublemint (1914)
Freedent (1975)
Big Red (1975)
Extra (1984)
Winterfresh (1994)
Surpass (2001)
Orbit (reintroduced 2001)
Orbit White
Eclipse (2001)
5 (2007)

Gum (Canada)

Excel
Juicy Fruit
Extra
5 gum

Gum (Made by The Wrigley Company Ltd., Estover, Plymouth, UK)

Airwaves
Doublemint
Extra
Ice White - Later re-branded as Orbit Ice White
Juicy Fruit
Orbit
Orbit Professional
Orbit Complete

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[the]

Originally Posted by kstarnes

Here are the Mars labels (from Wikipedia):

*edit: I never knew about the pet foods!*



Schmackos


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That one is great. Hopefully it comes in a can. "I'm gonna open up a can of Schmackos on you!"

[gassy]

That's better than Whoop Ass if you ask me.
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[URY914]

Looks like a sweet deal.