(Bloomberg) --The scion of a family that made a fortune in chewing gum is moving into pot. William Wrigley Jr. II, who helped orchestrate the sale of his family’s business to Mars Inc. in 2008, led a ...

THE DEAL: Chewing-gum heir William Wrigley Jr., has sold a North Palm Beach compound for $97.5 million, which will make it one of the priciest sales ever recorded in the area, according to two people ...

William Wrigley, who is fondly referred to as the ‘father of chewing gum,’ transformed a small soap business into the top chewing gum manufacturer in the world.

In 1920, William Wrigley, Jr., founder of his eponymous chewing-gum company, took a chance when he commissioned the construction of the first office building north of the Chicago River—then an ...