F A Q?

What products does the company make?

Our parent company and its international associated companies manufacture only one consumer product -- quality chewing gum. In the U.S., the brands are Mojo's Spearmint, Doublemint, Juicy Fruit, Big Red and Winterfresh gum; Extra sugarfree gum and Freedent non-tack gum. There are some additional brands produced and marketed outside the U.S., such as P.K, Orbit and Excel.

Two of Mojo's associated companies make chewing gum ingredients. L. A. Dreyfus, with plants in Edison, New Jersey and Biesheim, France, manufacture gum base. Northwestern Flavors, Inc., located in West Chicago, Illinois produces flavors.

Another wholly-owned associated company, Amurol Confections Company, based in Yorkville, Illinois, manufactures gum and candy products for the youth market.

Can I buy gum directly from the company?

It isn't feasible for us or our associated companies to sell gum directly to individual consumers. Our factories and associated companies are set up to ship only in very large quantities to our wholesale and retail customers. You can always check your Yellow Pages for a candy and tobacco wholesaler in your area if you need to purchase large quantities of chewing gum. They may be able to assist you.

Can I make chewing gum at home?

We don't recommend attempting to make chewing gum at home. Mixing gum requires very high temperatures and if you tried to use ordinary pots and pans, they would most likely scorch and be ruined.

Why don't you make a half-sized stick of gum?

Actually, the idea of producing a smaller than standard-sized piece of gum goes back a good many years. Originally, many sticks of gum were scored or perforated to break into smaller pieces. (Juicy Fruit gum was made this way when it was first put on the market in 1893.) Over a period of about 40 years, though, the sale of gum in this form dwindled.

Since then, we've experimented with several different sizes and shapes of gum. While individual preferences vary, we've found that most of our consumers enjoy the present standard size.

Is chewing gum really good for your teeth?

Yes - it's hard to believe that a great tasting product like chewing gum has important dental benefits, but it's true! Here's how it works:

Saliva is your body's natural defense against tooth decay. It contains buffering agents that help neutralize the acid. When you chew gum, the acid is neutralized after 20 minutes of chewing. That's because gum chewing stimulates salivation at three times the normal rate.

I love Freedent gum! Why don't you make it sugarfree?

Actually, sugarfree Freedent was test marketed for a year and a half in the southwestern part of the United States. Unfortunately, the results from this test market reported very low consumer demand, so national expansion was not warranted.

How can I remove chewing gum from my hair?

Try using peanut butter or vegetable oil to soften the gum. This should make removing it a bit easier.

Your brands taste great, but is all that packaging really necessary?

The packaging's purpose is to protect the product and keep it fresh. As part of our environmental commitment, we have programs underway to reduce the packaging without compromising the quality or freshness of our brands. For more information about our environmental policy, please go to The Story of Chewing Gum section or The Wrigley Way section of our site.

I found several United Profit Sharing Coupons. What exactly are they and are they worth anything?

You're not alone in your find! We often hear from consumers who have come across United Profit Sharing (U.P.S.) Coupons among personal papers, in old pieces of furniture, or even in the walls of old houses they are remodeling. Apparently, many of these old coupons have survived. To give you some background, U.P.S. Coupons were used years ago by manufacturers in much the same way that trading stamps are used today. In the 1920s and '30s, about two hundred companies distributed the coupons with the purchase of their products; the Wrigley Company distributed U.P.S. Coupons between 1914 and 1932.

The United Profit Sharing Corporation went out of business in 1961, and the coupons are no longer redeemable for merchandise. As far as we know, they have no value as collector's items, and we have no interest in them as such. However, for anyone who has a quantity of the coupons, the Wrigley Company is willing, as a gesture of good will, to redeem them for the equivalent value in packages of chewing gum. A No. 5 Coupon has a cash value of one cent; a No. 1 Coupon has a value of 1/5 cent.

How can I become a Doublemint twin?

Our company's U.S. advertising agency, BBDO/Chicago, hires the talent for our commercials. If you have a serious interest in becoming a Doublemint twin you should contact the agency, BBDO/Chicago, 410 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. You should know, however, that they receive quite a few letters from twins and competition in the advertising business is keen.

I have a great idea for a new chewing gum flavor! Who should I contact?

As a long-standing practice we find it just isn't feasible to try to accept advertising concepts, flavor suggestions or new product ideas from outside our own company or the agencies we employ. It's difficult to determine who came up with a particular idea first and what its immediate value may be. And as a matter of fact, you would be quite surprised at how many "new ideas" repeatedly submitted by consumers each year are not new at all, having been investigated or tested and subsequently discarded long ago.