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William Wrigley Jr. has left Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., 15 months after the venerable Chicago firm was officially sold to Mars Inc. for $23 billion.<\/p>\nWilliam Wrigley Jr. has left Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., 15 months after the venerable Chicago firm was officially sold to Mars Inc. for $23 billion.<\/p>\n
Wrigley, who had stayed on as chairman of Mars’ Chicago-based Wrigley subsidiary, informed Wrigley workers of his departure on Jan. 4, the company confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n
Wrigley, whose great-grandfather founded the gum empire, will focus on several business and philanthropic initiatives in Chicago and around the world, the company said. <\/span><\/p>\n He was Wrigley’s executive chairman in April 2008 when the sale to Mars was unveiled.<\/p>\n After the deal was completed in October 2008, Wrigley was made chairman of the Wrigley subsidiary and William Perez stayed on as its chief executive.<\/p>\n But Perez left just two weeks after the deal closed, and Dushan “Duke” Petrovich took over as the subsidiary’s president, reporting directly to Paul Michaels, chief executive of privately-held Mars.<\/p>\n There are no plans to appoint a new chairman of Wrigley, the company said.<\/p>\n mhughlett@tribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n William Wrigley Jr. has left Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., 15 months after the venerable Chicago firm was officially sold to Mars Inc. for $23 billion. Wrigley, who had stayed on as chairman of Mars’ Chicago-based Wrigley subsidiary, informed Wrigley workers of his departure on Jan. 4, the company confirmed Friday. Wrigley, whose great-grandfather founded the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2FZM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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