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Mars, Inc. is an American global manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products with US$33 billion in annual sales in 2013, and is ranked as the 6th largest privately held company in the United States by Forbes. Headquartered in McLean, unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, US,〔"(McLean CDP, Virginia )." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on September 1, 2009.〕〔"(Locations )." Mars, Incorporated. Retrieved on September 1, 2009.〕 the company is entirely owned by the Mars family. Mars operates in six business segments in the US: Chocolate (Hackettstown, New Jersey), Petcare (Franklin, Tennessee), Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (Chicago, Illinois), Food (Rancho Dominguez, California), Drinks (West Chester, Pennsylvania), and Symbioscience (Germantown, Maryland), the company's life sciences division.〔(Mars Global Brands )〕〔(Mars Symbioscience )〕 ==History== Mars, founded by Franklin Clarence Mars, is a company known for the confectionery items that it creates,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Mars )〕 such as Mars bars, Milky Way bars, M&M's, Skittles, Snickers, and Twix. They also produce non-confectionery snacks, such as Combos, and other foods, including Uncle Ben's Rice and pasta sauce brand Dolmio, as well as pet foods, such as Pedigree and Whiskas brands. Orbit gum is among the most popular brands, managed by the Mars subsidiary brand Wrigley. During World War II, Wrigley was selling their eponymous gum only to soldiers, while Orbit was sold to the public. Though abandoned shortly after the war, about 30 years later Orbit made a comeback in America during the chewing gum craze.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Wrigley.com )〕 Mars, whose mother taught him to hand dip candy, sold candy by age 19.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mars.com/global/Who+We+Are/History.htm )〕 He started the Mars Candy Factory in 1911 with Ethel V. Mars, his second wife, in Tacoma, Washington.〔 This factory produced and sold fresh candy wholesale,〔 but ultimately the venture failed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/encyclopaedia!openframeset&frame=Right&Src=/edible.nsf/pages/marsfamily!opendocument )〕 By 1920, Mars had returned to his home state, Minnesota, where the earliest incarnation of the present day Mars company was founded that year as Mar-O-Bar Co., in Minneapolis〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.oprf.com/oprfhist/marsf.htm )〕 and later incorporated there as Mars, Incorporated.〔 Forrest Mars, Sr., son of Frank and his first wife, who was also named Ethel, was inspired by a popular type of milkshake in 1923, to introduce the Milky Way bar, advertised as a "chocolate malted milk in a candy bar", which became the best-selling candy bar.〔 In 1929, Frank moved the company to Chicago, Illinois and started full production in a plant which still exists today.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mars.com/global/about-mars/history.aspx )〕 In 1930, Frank Mars created the Snickers Bar and first sold it in US markets. In 1932, Forrest started Mars Limited in the United Kingdom and launched the Mars bar. Mars is still a family business owned by the Mars family. The company is famous for its secrecy. A 1993 ''Washington Post Magazine'' article was a rare raising of the veil, as the reporter was able to see the "M"s being applied to the M&M's, something that "no out-sider had ever before been invited to observe." In 1999, for example, the company did not acknowledge that Forrest Mars, Sr., had died or that he had worked for the company. The company published its Principles in Action communication in September 2011. This communication outlines the history of Mars, its legacy as a business committed to its Five Principles, and the company’s goal of putting its Principles into action to make a difference to people and the planet through performance. Encompassing themes of Health and Nutrition, Supply Chain, Operations, Products, and Working at Mars, the Principles in Action communication outlines Mars Incorporated’s targets, progress, and ongoing challenges. It also describes its businesses, including Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks, Symbioscience.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Mars.com )〕 Mars, Incorporated has developed a reputation across its leading markets to be an excellent training ground for managers. In the United Kingdom for instance, many CEOs of large companies learned their trade at Mars, Inc., including former Mars executives Justin King, the former appointed CEO of the supermarket chain Asda and then the British postal service Royal Mail, and Allan Leighton, former CEO of the retailer Sainsbury's. Recently, the company caught on to that and re-branded their employer brand "Mars — The Ultimate Business School". Moving into the fourth generation of family ownership, the company recently passed from family leadership into non-family leadership; however, the business is still owned by the Mars family. The global CEO of Mars, Inc. is Paul Michaels. Michaels is part of a new group of non-family management that has taken over since the retirement of John and Forrest Mars, Jr.. The family now oversees the business as a council or board of directors. In the United States, the company has manufacturing facilities in Hackettstown, New Jersey; Albany, Georgia; Burr Ridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chicago and Mattoon, Illinois; Cleveland, Tennessee; Columbia, South Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; Greenville, Mississippi; Greenville and Waco, Texas; Henderson and Reno, Nevada; Fort Smith, Arkansas; Joplin, Missouri; Miami, Oklahoma; and Galena, Kansas. And their newest facility in Topeka, KansasTheir Canadian facilities are located in Bolton and Newmarket, Ontario.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Mars, Inc. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mars, Incorporated」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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