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Franklin Clarence Mars (/ ˈmɑːrz /; September 24, 1883 – April 8, 1935) was an American business magnate who founded the food company Mars, Incorporated, which mostly makes chocolate candy. Mars' son Forrest Edward Mars developed M&M's and the Mars bar and founded the Ethel M Chocolate Factory.
Franklin Clarence Mars (September 24, 1883 – April 8, 1935) – founder of Mars, Inc. Invented the Milky Way bar. Ethel G. Kissack (September 29, 1882 – April 11, 1980) [9] – first wife of Frank C. Mars (married 1902, divorced) Forrest Edward Mars Sr. (March 21, 1904 – July 1, 1999) – son of Frank C. Mars and Ethel G. Mars. Invented M&M's.
Franklin Clarence Mars, whose mother taught him to hand dip candy, sold candy by age 19. [ 17 ] He started the Mars Candy Factory in 1911 with Ethel V. Mars, his second wife, in Tacoma, Washington. [ 18 ] This factory produced and sold fresh candy wholesale, [ 17 ] but ultimately the venture failed [ 19 ][ 20 ] because there was a better established business, Brown & Haley, also operating in ...
Spearheading this expansion through acquisitions over the last three decades has been Valerie Mars, the 65-year-old great-granddaughter of Franklin Clarence Mars, who started the company as a ...
Milky Way Farm in Giles County, Tennessee, is the former estate of Franklin C. Mars, founder of Mars Candies. The property is named for the company's Milky Way candy bar. [2] During the Great Depression, the estate was the largest employer in Giles county. [2][3] The estate is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an historic district; [2][3] the farm and manor house are now ...
Founder Franklin Clarence Mars started the company in his Tacoma, Washington kitchen. The company is owned by the grandchildren of Frank Mars and employs 130000 people in over 80 countries.
Early life and career Mars was born March 21, 1904, in Wadena, Minnesota, the only child of Franklin Clarence Mars, the founder of the Mars Candy Company, and his first wife Ethel Gale Mars (née Kissack; 1882-1980).
John Franklyn Mars was born on October 15, 1935. He is the son of Audrey Ruth (Meyer) and Forrest Mars, Sr., and grandson of Frank C. Mars, founders of the American candy company Mars, Incorporated. Mars graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1953 [1] and Yale University.