Mars and Buffett Team Up to Buy Wrigley

April 27, 2008

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M & M;’s candy maker Mars Inc. has teamed up with billionaire Warren Buffett to buy Wm Wrigley Jr Co., the world’s largest chewing gum maker, for $23 billion, creating the world’s largest confectionary company.

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