Mars, Incorporated
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Key facts
- Company type
- Private
- Industry
- Food Veterinary services
- Founded
- June 23, 1911 ; 114 years ago ( 1911-06-23 ) in Tacoma, Washington , U.S.
- Founder
- Franklin Clarence Mars
- Headquarters
- McLean, Virginia , U.S.
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- John Franklyn Mars ( chairman ) Poul Weihrauch, ( president and CEO )
- Products
- Confectionery Gum Candy Mints Beverages Foodstuffs Cereals (outside North America) Crackers Toaster pastries Pet food and supplies
- Brands
- List of Mars Inc. brands
- Services
- Manufacturing , Veterinary
- Revenue
- US$ 50 billion (2024)
- Owner
- Mars family
- Number of employees
- 150,000 (2024)
- Divisions
- Mars Snacking Mars Petcare Mars Food Mars Edge
- Subsidiaries
- VCA Animal Hospitals
- Website
- mars.com
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Mars, Incorporated (doing business as Mars Inc.) is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services founded on June 23, 1911. Mars is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington metropolitan area, and is entirely owned by the Mars family. The company had US$45 billion in annual sales in 2022; that year Forbes ranked the company as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States.
Mars operates in four subsidiaries around the world: Snacking (headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with U.S. headquarters in Hackettstown and Newark, New Jersey), Petcare (Zaventem, Belgium; Poncitlán, Jalisco, Mexico; Querétaro, Mexico), Food (Rancho Dominguez, California) and Mars Edge (Germantown, Maryland), the company's life sciences division.
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