Mars News
What cats really want - Whiskas Little Big Cat Campaign
April saw the launch of a new campaign for Whiskas from Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. Entitled “Little Big Cat,” and based around the slogan...
Royal visit to the Slough Chocolate factory
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the Mars Slough chocolate factory last month. The royal couple toured the research plant in Dundee Road, Slough,...
Historic S&F Meeting in McLean 17/18 April 2013
Ralf Lotterman writes: "In April Dieter Sarodnik and I organized a reunion of retired Senior S&F Corporate Staff at McLean. 22 Staff officers came together...
Andrew Hobday to retire from Mars
Andrew Hobday will retire from Mars on April 26th, after a long and distinguished career.Andrew joined Mars via the Drinks business in 1988, and since then has...
Mars co-hosts meeting of cocoa flavanol experts
On 24 January, Mars and partners convened over 50 leading experts in Brussels to discuss recent breakthroughs in the field of cocoa flavanol research and the...
Mars’ Tweetshop a world's first in graduate recruitment?
The Mars Twitter-operated vending and recruitment machine is nearly half way through its tour of UK universities. And so far students in Durham, Leeds...
John D. Baker, former Mars Vice-President, dies aged 90.
John D. Baker, 90, former Vice President at Mars, died aged 90 on December 9th at his daughter Annette Jackson’s home in Lexington Park, Maryland. ...
Paul Jackson - on the Importance of Happy Meals
A while ago John Murray had said to me, "life is a game of Snakes and Ladders". How right he has proved to be. My wife, Robin, and I have had a very...
Christine Tacon to be new Supermarket Watchdog
Christine Tacon is the newly appointed (and long hoped-for) Groceries Code Adjudicator in the UK. The role - effectively the supermarket watchdog, (or...
Mars in the Fortune100 Best Companies to Work For
For the first time, Mars has made it onto Fortune's annual U.S. list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, coming in at no 95. Fortune’s article on...
Mars IS 2013 Retirees Gathering in Mount Olive
Steve Fraebel, President of Mars IS Retirees, writes:Over 25 Mars IS retirees attended the 2013 Retirees Gathering in Mount Olive, New Jersey, on January 17,...
Lisa Foley's MAP project in Russia
Fast and furious. That’s how Lisa Foley describes the pace of her recent Mars Ambassador Program (MAP) assignment in Russia and the Ukraine to analyze...
Petcare UK team in the Guinness Book of Records
100 Petcare associates in Waltham became Guinness World Record holders during their annual Customer Development and Marketing Conference as the company set the...
Opening of Yonghe Factory is Wrigley's first LEED Gold
The Yonghe Factory in China's Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development District, officially opened recently with more than 200 guests including Pamela...
Mars 25th in World’s Best Multinational Workplaces
Mars has been ranked 25 in www.greatplacetowork.com’s World’s Best Multinational Workplaces of 2012. The list was announced recently at a ceremony...
John Tripodi a visiting professor at RMIT Melbourne
John Tripodi, formerly of Mars Snackfood in Ballarat, has been appointed an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s School of Economics, Finance and...
Paul Hayes and Gordon Jones complete world's longest marathon
Paul Hayes writes: On September 8th, two ex-Martians fulfilled a long-standing dream by successfully completing the Medoc Marathon in South-West France,...
John Stinson, Product Development Scientist, Wrigley
John Stinson is a Product Development Scientist based at the Wrigley Global Innovation Center in Chicago, Illinois. Here he talks about his...
Creating a Sustainable Cocoa Industry for Farmers will need Billions
Creating a cocoa sector that can meet the industry’s long-term demand for cocoa and give economic opportunities to the world’s five to six million...
Miracoli Acquisition Complete
Mars Food completed the acquisition of the Miracoli brand on October 2, 2012 and has taken full control of the Miracoli product range. Mars Food welcomes this...
Mars publishes its inaugural Principles in Action summary
Last month Mars published its Principles in Action Summary 2011. Designed to be shared with associates and other interested parties, the document...
Mars Polska celebrates 20 years
Jaroslaw Kutelski writes: In the summer of 1992, when Master Foods Poland (Mars Polska since 2007) was established in Sochaczew in central Poland, no one...
Mars GCC cover story vision
Mars GCC features on the front cover of this month's issue of H20 Magazine, a leading environment and sustainability magazine published in the Middle East...
Physics Masterclass: A Universe of Possibilities
On Thursday October 11, science journal Nature in partnership with Mars published a supplement entitled ‘Physics Masterclass: A Universe of...
Mars India associates give clean water
The global drinking water crisis, which affects one billion people across the world, seems insurmountable. What could any of us possibly do to make a...
Tessa McDonald at the Olympic village
I can’t believe it’s all over. I first applied to be a volunteer (later rebranded “Games Maker”) at London 2012 in September 2010. I...
Three cheers for the volunteers! Gillian White
Like many, I vividly remember the day that London was awarded the 2012 Olympics. The tragic events that followed overshadowed the excitement and euphoria...
Martians at the Olympics - Ruth Carling's experiences
I have spent the past 2 weeks having the experience of my life as part of the Event Services Team (essentially front of house) at Eton Dorney. I was at...
David Wilkins on Olympic Sailing
David Wilkins is an experienced Olympic sailor, having competed at five Olympics, won silver once and narrowly missed a medal more than once too. This year he...
Cocoa Flavanol consumption improves Brain Power
A study conducted by Mars, Incorporated and researchers from the University of L’Aquila in Italy and Mars offers compelling new evidence that the...
Marc Turcan Appointed VP, Global Supply Chain for Wrigley
Marc Turcan has been appointed VP, Global Supply Chain for Wrigley, effective January 1, 2013. Marc will succeed Joan Parrott-Sheffer, who will be retiring in...
Antoine Mangin to be P&O VP for Asia-Pac Chocolate Business
Antoine Mangin has been appointed to the newly created position of Vice President People & Organization for Mars Chocolate Asia-Pacific. The...
Denis Winkler appointed VP, Global Supply Chain for Food
The existing Global Food VP, Technology role is to be split into two distinct roles: Global Food VP, Supply Chain and Global Food VP, R&D, both based in...
Banfield Pet health report shows scope for improvement
The Banfield Pet Hospital State of Pet Health 2012 Report offers the only meaningful available data to examine and sum up overall pet health across the USA....
Andy Hobday at the Rio Summit
Andy Hobday, Mars Chief Sustainability Officer, recently participated in the Responsible Business Summit in New York and in the Rio+20 Summit, which brought...
Matthew Amigh to be the new Drinks S&F Global VP
Matt Amigh joins Mars as the Global Vice President of S&F for Mars Drinks on August 20. Matt will be a member of the Drinks Leadership Team, based in West...
Twix's olympic rivalry
BBDO Worldwide have begun the global rollout of a highly anticipated Twix advertising campaign. The innovative campaign taps into a universal insight about...
Ives de Busser heads children's Rice School
Two years in the making, the community “Rice School for Kids” project was successfully launched when two classes recently visited the Olen site...
The Kitchen as Laboratory - Reflections on the Science of Food
The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food & Cooking has been published this year by César Vega, Research Manager in Mars...
Mars at the Smithsonian Museum of American History
Mars announced recently that it is the principal sponsor of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s “American Enterprise”...
When disaster strikes, Mars helps protect America’s cats and dogs
Mars Petcare US is to sponsor the American Humane Association’s Red Star™ Rescue Services to save animals in emergencies. The $200,000 Mars...
Clean water & electric light for Indonesian cocoa farmers
In 2010 Mars Canada launched the Cocoa Sustainability Campaign (CCSC) as a contribution to protecting the future cocoa supply while improving the lives of...
Rodolfo Spielmann to be Nutro Global President
On July 30, Rodolfo Spielmann, currently General Manager of Mars Caribbean and Central America, will take on the position of Global President of The Nutro...
Ben's Beginners Campaign Winner Announced
Ben’s Beginners™ is a US-wide cooking competition designed to encourage parents to share mealtimes with their children.More than 700 parents...
Mars at Clinton's first Global Impact Economy Forum
For two days in April, U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, assembled more than 400 experts to lead the first-ever “Global Impact Economy...
The woof-meow car: pet rescue in Japan
Since last year's huge earthquake and tsunami shattered Japan’s eastern coast, people haven’t been the only ones coping with devastation. Thousands...
Waltham-inspired Nashville Petcare Innovation Center
Mars Petcare and the Nutro Company are building an $87 million Regional Innovation Center in Thompson's Station, Tennessee. Ulf Hahnemann, Acting GM of Mars...
Mars to be the world’s largest user of Certified Cocoa by end 2012
In April 2009, Mars Chocolate made a pledge to buy its entire cocoa supply from certified sources by 2020. Three years later, Mars Chocolate has stayed true to...
Mars as Advertiser of the Year 2012 at Cannes Lions
The organizers of the 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the world's largest global annual awards celebrating creative excellence in...
How do great companies attract and nurture talent?
The Fortune/AON Hewitt's 2011 Top Companies for Leaders was published at the end of last year and is still being actively discussed online. It is distinctive...
Eva Longoria is the face of the new Sheba global campaign
Eva Longoria, internationally acclaimed Desperate Housewives star, is the face of the new Sheba global campaign ‘Follow Your Passion’ which focuses...
Mars Drinks announces its first 100% recyclable Freshpack
Product innovation is crucial to Mars Drinks “Path to Sustainability” and has resulted in the development of 100% recyclable freshpacks. The...
New Petcare Marketing Director UK
Miranda Sambles has joined Mars Petcare as its new UK Marketing Director.She takes over from Gareth Helm, who left Mars Petcare last year and now works as a...
Orbit & 5 Gum Go Micro
The Wrigley team is introducing micro-packs for Orbit and 5 Gum into North America. The new six-tab Micro-Pack envelopes are ultra-portable to fit into the...
Mars at TEDMED last week
TEDMED 2012 saw an audience of 1,500 influential and high-profile leaders, academics, scientists and visionaries in Washington DC last week (April 10-13), to...
Andy Parton promotion
Andy Parton has been named to the newly created role of Commercial Vice-President Petcare. Andy will report directly to Todd Lachman, President of Global...
A day in the life of Ed Seguine - a Mars Chocolate Fellow.
A day in the life of Ed Seguine - a Mars Chocolate Fellow. Anyone think they eat a lot of chocolate? Ed Seguine beats us all. As a Mars Chocolate...
Mars GCC Wins Dubai Quality Award
Mars GCC has just been awarded the 2012 Dubai Quality Award. This prestigious award acknowledges and celebrates the success of organizations that demonstrate...
Current Organisation Changes
Samson Suen, President of Wrigley Asia Pacific, has decided to retire at the end of June after 33 years of service. Samson began his career as a Marketing...
Low(er) calorie Mars products?
Mars will stop making chocolate products with more than 250 calories by the end of next year.The company may not have to make radical changes in all areas to...
Jamie Oliver’s TED talk inspired ‘Begin with Ben' campaign in US
Childhood obesity is a massive problem right across the developed world. In the U.S, one in every three children is overweight and children’s life...
Mars Chocolate France leads in Voluntary Nutritional Improvement
In February Mars Chocolate was France’s first chocolate company to sign the Charter of Voluntary Nutritional Progress with the Ministry of Health, as...
New Mars Factory in Saudi Arabia
On Wednesday, Feb. 15, the ground was broken on a new, state-of-the-art Mars Chocolate factory in King Abdullah City, Saudi Arabia. The factory will begin...
More changes at the top
Promotions for Reuben Gamoran to Mars CFO and Florence Naviner (now CFO for Wrigley) and more details on Olivier Goudet and Aileen Richards, first announced in...
Ms Brown steps out from the shadows
Following the successful launch of products like M&M’S Pretzel Chocolate Candies, as well as witnessing the admiration her fellow characters enjoy...
Leadership changes
A number of significant movements of people will be taking place over the next few weeks. As of March 1, 2012: Pierre Laubies, Global Petcare President, has...
The Nutro Company Establishes Nutro Japan
At the beginning of the year, The Nutro Company officially welcomed the establishment of Nutro Japan. This was an exciting step in the expansion of The Nutro...
Reflections on working at Mars from our 4000th member
I spent 10 life-changing years working for Mars IS, based in South Africa. I joined straight from university, started off on the helpdesk, did applications...
Changes in senior roles in Mclean
Mars has announced that Olivier Goudet will be leaving his role as Executive Vice President and CFO to become a partner, shareholder and CEO of an investment...
Brian Chambers appointed to Commercial VP, Drinks Segment
Brian joined Wrigley in 2002 from Kraft/Nabisco as a Purchasing Manager in the Americas Regional Supply Chain group and was promoted into the Worldwide...
A Wallop of WOHP
Targeting dentists, hygienists and their patients in 47 countries with information about the oral care benefits of chewing sugar-free gum, the WOHP is a key...
School children in North America “count their blessings”
Data shows that one out of every six children in the U.S. is at risk of hunger, making it very difficult for them to learn and develop. Hungry children are...
Seeds of Change® organic seeds to be sold in Walmart in the U.S.A.
“We firmly believe the world will be a better place with more organic gardeners,” said Will Righeimer, Global General Manager, Seeds of...
Mars Information Systems Retirees (US) Christmas Gathering
Steve Fraebel writes: About 20 retirees attended the Gathering in Mount Olive on December 20, 2011, and several more dialed in for the live conference call....
Martians Reunited in Moscow
Antonio Gutierres writes:The only thing missing was the paparazzi and the red carpet! What was this stellar event? Celebrating the 20th Anniversary...
Alper Yuksel joins Mars as Turkey General Manager
Alper Yuksel joined on November 25th as the new General Manager for Turkey. Alper is Turkish and has a BA in Industrial Engineering and an MBA and is...
Roula Kamhawi to retire from Mars
No-one has embodied the Mars Chocolate vision and the Five Principles more than Roula Kamhawi and the business is sad to announce her plan to retire from...
MTD Global Winners 2011
Members of the Mars Family and leaders from across the business honoured Make The Difference Global Finalists and Winners at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Air and...
Trinidad Farmers try chocolate made from their own cocoa beans
Farmers in Trinidad and Tobago have been growing cocoa beans for many generations. In July 2011, 58 farmers tried the taste of chocolate made from their own...
Belgian GM spearheads Horn of Africa relief project
According to recent news reports, the UN says tens of thousands of people have died after what is said to be East Africa's worst drought for 60 years and as...
Mark Johnson to be President Mars Petcare Russia
Mark Johnson has been appointed Regional President, Mars Petcare Russia reporting to Pierre Laubies, Global President of Mars Petcare. In this role Mark will...
New senior appointments in Wrigley
Hamish Thomson to be General Manager, Wrigley UK & Ireland In recognition of the unprecedented period of growth, innovation and heightened engagement that...
Mars.com relaunch
Mars has recently updated its global corporate website, Mars.com. While it covers broadly the same areas as before, the new site is much more informative and...
Mars and Fairtrade International announce collaboration
Mars Chocolate and Fairtrade International recently announced a new agreement to work together to help farmers build sustainable livelihoods and substantially...
Blessings in a Backpack
Through the Blessings in a Backpack program, Mars Food North America is helping to provide backpacks full of food to more than 4,000 elementary school children...
Waltham research featured in prestigious journal
In a special supplement, the British Journal of Nutrition (BJN) has published a series of research papers first presented at the Waltham International...
Would you live like a cat?
Judging by the reaction to Whiskas’ latest and highly engaging UK campaign, called A Cat Would, the answer seems to be a resounding ‘yes’! ...
Ghana's Champion Cocoa Farmer visits M&M’S World London
Samuel Awuni is Ghana's 2011 Champion, recognised as the country’s best cocoa farmer in terms of quality and quantity. His grand prize included a two...
All in the Family!
In 1970, young Hans Verhoeven landed a job at the local Mars chocolate factory in Veghel. A few years later, brothers Peter and Henry followed suit. Soon,...
Taking the Lead in the Use of Hybrid Technology
To date, Mercedes-Benz has delivered only 50 hybrid trucks in Europe and three of these environmentally-friendly vehicles are now on the road for Mars in the...
Nutro Donates $1 Million to the SDF
When disaster strikes, the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation (SDF) responds by providing professionally trained dogs to help firefighters and other first...
Mars Chocolate to distribute 9 million Random Acts of Chocolate
Mars Chocolate North America recently coordinated 50,000 Mars Random Acts of Chocolate by delivering free samples to New Yorkers in Manhattan via bike...
Chewing gum helps people to lose weight.
A recent research study has shown that chewing gum is not only good for your teeth (some of it, anyway) but also reduces cravings for snacks between meals. The...
Cocoa reduces the risk of heart attack
Chocolate, on the other hand, can reduce the risk of heart attack by a third. And, if you've got the habit of snacking under control (see the news item about...
Wrigley Chattanooga Factory goes solar
Earlier this year the Chattanooga Factory became the first Wrigley manufacturing plant in North America to go live with a solar-powered electric system,...
Wrigley’s to leave the Building
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company announced last week that it will be relocating its global headquarters from the Wrigley Building in Chicago to the company’s...
M&M’S commemorates 30-year relationship with NASA
M&M’S® marked the final mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis in July by providing personalized M&M’S for the crew and for NASA personnel...
Bountyful coconut harvests? Calling all creative engineers
A labour shortage in the state of Kerala in southern India has meant that while they have the best coconut trees, the crop is declining because it is difficult...
Ian Burton to be Europe Regional President, Wrigley
Last month we posted a notice about Poul Weihrauch’s appointment to the role of Global President of Food.He has been succeeded as Wrigley’s Europe...
Europe’s first M&M’S World store opens in London
The world’s biggest chocolate brand, M&M’S, opened its London store in Leicester Square this month. This is the first M&M’s store in...
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