{"id":212989,"date":"2010-01-22T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=12349"},"modified":"2010-01-22T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T18:55:44","slug":"william-wrigley-jr-leaves-gum-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212989","title":{"rendered":"William Wrigley Jr. leaves gum giant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"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>\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

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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. 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":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}