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ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Here is an interesting way to travel back and time and try coffee, tea and chocolate the way people experienced it in colonial America in the 18th century. Mars, Incorporated announced that its American Heritage line of chocolate, coffee and tea is available in the only 18th century coffeehouse in the United States. R. Charlton's Coffeehouse has been reconstructed as Colonial Williamsburg's newest...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- To help preserve pre-Revolutionary history of food and drink, Mars, Incorporated announced that its American Heritage line of Chocolate, Coffee & Tea is available in the only 18th century coffeehouse in the United States. R. Charlton's Coffeehouse has been reconstructed as Colonial Williamsburg's newest exhibition and provides guests with the opportunity...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
BANGKOK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- As thousands of experts around the world converge to discuss the state of global health and nutrition at the International Congress of Nutrition (ICN), top experts from the University of California, Davis and Mars, Incorporated are acknowledging the important impact of cocoa on human health. During a session entitled "Cocoa Science - Flavanols and Sustainability,"...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
BANGKOK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- As thousands of experts around the world converge to discuss the state of global health and nutrition at the International Congress of Nutrition (ICN), top experts from the University of California, Davis and Mars, Incorporated are acknowl...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Cocoa Foundation today announced a public-private partnership for rural education with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Africa Education Initiative and its members Kraft Foods; The Hershey Company; Mars, Incorporated; Starbucks Coffee Company; Fazer Confectionery; Olam International Ltd.; The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.'s SunSpire brand;...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Mars, Incorporated is a private, family-owned company founded in 1911 and employing over 65,000 associates at more than 230 sites, including 135 factories, in 68 countries worldwide. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, U.S.A., Mars, Incorporated is one of the world's largest food companies, generating global revenues of more than $30 billion annually and operating in six business segments: Chocolate,...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The WALTHAM(R) Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars, Incorporated, has committed more than $2 million to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to help fund comprehensive research over the next four years on various aspects associated with...
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Infectious Greed (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
With sugar spiking to all-time highs, there is a potential behavioral upside. Much as happened with higher oil prices, which changed driving behavior, higher sugar prices could materially change people’s behavior, steering them away from sweets and refined sugar products, which wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Here is what the WSJ has to say: In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack,...
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
South Barrington business says consumers still need a treat When Mars Inc. pulled the plug on its short-lived Ethel's Chocolate Lounges in the Chicago area this spring, some read it as a sign that recession-weary consumers have little appetite for reclining in plush purple chairs, eating hand-painted truffles and dipping strawberries in gooey, hot chocolate fondue.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
HARRISBURG, Pa. The nation's largest candymakers can appeal a federal judge's decision sustaining a civil lawsuit that accuses them of fixing prices. U.S. District Judge Christopher C. Conner issued a memorandum Wednesday allowing the Hershey Co., Mars Inc. and others to appeal his decision. Last month, Conner denied the companies' requests to dismiss the case. The manufacturers control 75 percent...
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Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/21/2009
Cuts may trim 100 from Chicago office; reductions come 5 months after sale to Mars Inc. Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. this week began laying off up to 10 percent of its corporate workforce, cuts that could lead to roughly 100 lost jobs in Chicago.
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findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., the manufacturer of such chewing gum brands as Orbit and Juicy Fruit, now is officially a subsidiary of privately owned candy conglomerate Mars Inc.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Yonhap) - South Korea's food watchdog said Saturday it has detected quantities of melamine, an industrial chemical, in chocolate products from foodstuff giants Nestle SA and Mars Inc.
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