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American Chicle Company

TheAmerican Chicle Company was a chewing gum trust founded by Thomas Adams, Jr., with Edward E. Beeman and Jonathan Primle.[1]

Beeman's Pepsin Gum from the American Chicle Company

Thomas Adams

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Adams Pepsin Tutti Frutti Gum
 
An advertisement of Adams chewing gum

Thomas Adams (May 4, 1818 – February 7, 1905) was a 19th-century Americanscientist andinventor who is regarded as a founder of thechewing gum industry. Adams conceived the idea while working as asecretary to formerMexican leaderAntonio López de Santa Anna, who chewed a natural gum calledchicle. Adams first tried to formulate the gum into a rubber which was suitable for makingtires. When that didn't work, he turned the chicle into a chewing gum called New York Chewing Gum.[2][3]

In 1870, Adams created the first flavored gum, black licorice, which he namedBlack Jack. In 1871, Adams patented the first chewing gum making machine. In 1888, his gum was the first to be sold in vending machines.

Company history

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Two women operating gum-wrapping machine at the American Chicle Company Plant in Brooklyn, New York, 1923

The company was incorporated inTrenton, New Jersey, on June 2, 1899.[1] Its market capitalization was $9,000,000 with one third issued aspreferred stock and 6% with cumulative dividends. The business was composed of the chewing gum concerns inBrooklyn, New York (Adams Sons & Company);Cleveland, Ohio (W. J. White & Sons);Chicago (J. P. Primley);Louisville, Kentucky (Kis-Me Gum Company);andToronto (S. T. Britten & Co.).[4] The corporation operated factories and gum forests inYucatan.[5]

In 1915, the company introducedChiclets.

On January 8, 1920, Don Ricardo Moreira, ofSan Salvador of the Coldwell & Moreira firm, registered American Chicle Co. trademarks inEl Salvador.[6]

American Chicle utilizedDancer Fitzgerald Sample in 1950 to promote its products via radio, newspapers, and television.[7] American Chicle was acquired by the pharmaceutical company Warner-Lambert in 1962; Warner-Lambert was acquired byPfizer in 2000.

The American Chicle Company was renamedAdams in 1997;Cadbury purchased Pfizer's candy brands in 2003. Kraft Foods (nowMondelez International) purchased Cadbury in 2010. Many of American Chicle's brands are out of production. Its best known product was probablyChiclets chewing gum which was discontinued in 2016.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ab"Chewing Gum Has Stuck Around For A Long Time".Deseret News. April 24, 1988. Retrieved2010-12-14.Adams and other chewing gum giants of the 19th century Dr Edward E Beeman and Jonathan Primley founded American Chicle in 1899 ...
  2. ^"Thomas Adams Dead"(PDF).The New York Times. February 8, 1905. RetrievedAugust 14, 2017.
  3. ^"Staten Island on the Web: Famous Staten Islanders". New York Public Library. Archived fromthe original on February 10, 2009.
  4. ^"The Chewing Gum Trust".The New York Times. June 3, 1899. p. 3. RetrievedFebruary 26, 2025.
  5. ^"American Chicle".The Wall Street Journal. December 16, 1901. p. 3.
  6. ^"Registro de Marcas de Fábrica" [Registry of Trademarks](PDF).Diario Oficial (in Spanish). San Salvador, El Salvador. 13 January 1919. Retrieved18 November 2020.
  7. ^"Advertising News and Notes".The New York Times. July 25, 1950. p. 42.

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