The
William Wrigley Jr. Company is a company headquartered in the GIC (Global Innovation Center) in
Goose Island,
Chicago,
Illinois. The company was founded on April 1, 1891, originally selling products such as
soap and
baking powder. In 1892,
William Wrigley, Jr., the company's founder, began packaging
chewing gum with each can of baking powder. The chewing gum eventually became more popular than the baking powder and Wrigley's reoriented the company to produce the gum.