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Business Overview

Mars Chocolate

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Bite-sized facts:

  • More than 13,000 Associates
  • Twenty-eight manufacturing sites
  • Four billion-dollar global brands — M&M'S®, SNICKERS®, DOVE®/GALAXY® and MARS®/MILKY WAY®
  • THIRTY-SIX brands in total, and four — MARS®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS® and M&M'S® — are more than 50 years old

Headquartered in Mount Olive, New Jersey, U.S., Mars Chocolate is one of the world's leading chocolate manufacturers and employs more than 13,000 people across 110 sites worldwide. Our iconic brands include M&M'S®, SNICKERS®, DOVE®, GALAXY®, MARS®, MILKY WAY® and TWIX®.

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Our global headquarters are in Mount Olive, New Jersey, U.S.

Being a market leader is as much about how we do things as it is about sales volumes. Mars Chocolate is committed to leading the industry in areas such as health and nutrition and sustainability. At the end of 2007, Mars became the first chocolate company to voluntarily stop advertising and marketing directly to children under age 12 worldwide. We are also the first global chocolate company to commit to annually sourcing all of our cocoa from certified sources by 2020. We currently have contracts in place to source 100,000 tonnes from each of the leading third-party cocoa certifiers — Rainforest Alliance and UTZ — by 2020.

Since Frank C. Mars and his wife, Ethel, started making candy in their Tacoma, Washington, kitchen 100 years ago, we have learned a lot about cocoa. Yet, we do not know all the facts surrounding its origins. Mars, Incorporated is leading efforts to identify the true history of chocolate and has published a book called "Chocolate: History, Culture and Heritage." Learn more about the history of chocolate making in America by visiting www.americanheritagechocolate.com.

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