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1 April, 1891

Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois, by William Wrigley Jr. on 1st April 1891. A Wrigley’s gum bar was the first product to be scanned using barcodes on 26th June 1974 at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.