Companies that have Produced or Distributed Life Savers™️

Details: Written by Karen Smith-Will; Parent Category: Research; Category: Life Savers: 100+ Years of Sweetness

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Life Savers™️ have been manufactured by the following parent companies, varying by product and country:

United States

1912 - Queen Victoria Chocolate Co., Ohio - This is the name of Clarence Crane's chocolates; Clarence Crane later sold as Mary Garden chocolates, the latter being a vocalist of some renown.)

1913 - Mint Products Co., NYC - This is the name of the company started by Edward Noble and J. Roy Allen.

1920 - Life Savers, Inc. (starting in 1920, per Modern)

Life Savers Corp. Mfr., Port Chester, N.Y. link
Cola,

1929 Drug Inc. merger, per New York Times.

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Beech-Nut Life Savers, Canajoharie, New York - Arkell Museum houses their corporate history. Retrieved from https://www.arkellmuseum.org/museum-collections

Beech-Nut, Inc., (Life Savers Div.) Canajoharie, N.Y. 13317 U.S.A. link, Five Flavor
Beech-Nut, Inc., New York, N.Y. 10016 U.S.A.

Planters Life Savers, Winston Salem, NC

Nestlé (Australia)

Nabisco

This buyer is quite ironic--amazing that one of their former employees invented a product that was quite iconic for Nabisco. When Clarence Crane left Allegheny College in Pennsylvania (in about 1894), "he took a job as a traveling salesman, selling cookies for the National Biscuit Company [later known as Nabisco], based out of Akron [Ohio]. (Esposito)

RJ Reynolds Nabisco

Kraft - link

Kraft Foods North America Inc., East Hanover, NJ 07936

E. R. Squibb Beech-Nut

Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company

Mars Wrigley Confectionery

Spangler

Source

Esposito, G. "Clarence Crane," Trumbull County History, retrieved from https://www.trumbullcountyhistory.com/crane-clarence-1875-1931/

https://www.nytimes.com/1929/01/01/archives/bonus-of-40-a-share-on-life-savers-stock-exchange-in-merger-with.html

Modern Packaging 1951-12: Volume 25, Issue 4. Digitized from IA1643112-05. pp. 92-98, 180-185.

"Nabisco re-enters South Africa," 5 October 1995, UPI. Retrieved from https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/10/05/Nabisco-re-enters-South-Africa/8958812865600/

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Life Savers™️ is a trademarked name currently owned in the US by Mars Wrigley Confectionery, having been owned and/or licensed by many previous companies, varying by country.