CHEWING GUM FACTORY

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22877, 25 November 1939, Page 12

CHEWING GUM FACTORY

ESTABLISHMENT AT AUCKLAND

AMERICAN CAPITAL TO IB EMPLOYED (pstn uioeußoi mxnuU AUCKLAND, November 24. Chewing gum is shortly to be manufactured in Auckland on a large scale. This will be undertaken by a new private company, which has been formed with a capital of £IOO,OOO. The company is called Wrigley Products (New Zealand), Ltd. The whole of the capital, which is in shares of £lO each, has been subscribed by American interests. Subscribers are:—William Wrigley. jun. Company. Chicago, 9997 shares; P. K. Wrigley, W. H. Stanley, and J. C. Cox, of Chicago, one share each. The company will occupy premises in the city. Mr B. E. Wrigley, jun, of Chicago, who is at present visiting Auckland, said that the company had been formed because of restrictions upon the import of chewing gum into New Zealand. In the past supplies had come from the American company’s Australian factory. . The new Auckland factory. Mr Wrigley said, would manufacture chewing gum for the whole of the Dominion. Most of the raw materials would be bought here, although chicle would have to be imported from overseas. The factory, which would employ 15 to 20 hands, would be in production at the end of February or the beginning of March of next year.