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How the Mars Family Built a Candy Empire With Total Privacy
Episode 81 of Family Business Stories with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dig into Mars Inc., one of the largest private companies in the world, run by the Mars family for over a century. They explore how three generations — from Frank Mars making candy in his kitchen to Forrest Mars Sr. expanding globally, to John, Forrest Jr., and Jacqueline in the 1980s and 1990s — kept the business private, secretive, and enormously profitable. Topics include the family's strict no-interview policy, the 1988 'Mars Plan' that restructured the company, the near-breakup in the 1990s, and how the…
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