Gum giant Wrigley buys up Kraft's candies.

Publication: The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Joan Verdon

Nov. 16--The Wrigley's gum company has agreed to buy Life Savers, Altoids and three other candy brands from Kraft Foods Inc. for about $1.5 billion, in a deal that could affect 100 Kraft employees based in East Hanover.

Those affected employees work out of the Nabisco North America corporate offices in East Hanover. "Wrigley will be determining their staffing following the acquisition," and will decide which employees will be retained, Kraft...

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