Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company to Webcast Special Stockholders' Meeting

CHICAGO, Sept. 23  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (NYSE:WWY) will provide a live webcast of its Special Meeting of Stockholders to consider the proposed merger agreement with Mars, Incorporated on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time (10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time).

The "listen only" webcast is being provided by Thomson Financial and can be accessed at http://www.wrigley.com/ in the Investor section.

The webcast is also being distributed over Thomson Financial's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through Thomson Financial's individual investor center at http://www.earnings.com/ or by visiting any of the investor sites in Thomson Financial's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson Financial's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com/).

Interested investors not able to listen to the webcast live will be able to access an archived version via the Wrigley website at their convenience.

About Wrigley

The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company is a recognized leader in confections with a wide range of product offerings including gum, mints, hard and chewy candies, lollipops, and chocolate. The Company has global sales of $5.4 billion and distributes its world-famous brands in more than 180 countries. Three of these brands -- Wrigley's Spearmint(R), Juicy Fruit(R), and Altoids(R) -- have heritages stretching back more than a century. Other well-loved brands include Doublemint(R), Life Savers(R), Big Red(R), Boomer(R), Pim Pom(R), Winterfresh(R), Extra(R), Freedent(R), Hubba Bubba(R), Orbit(R), Excel(R), Creme Savers(R), Eclipse(R), Airwaves(R), Solano(R), Sugus(R), P.K.(R), Cool Air(R) and 5(TM). 

DATASOURCE: Wm. Wrigley Jr.



CONTACT:  Christopher Perille, Senior Director - External Relations of

Wm. Wrigley Jr., [phone]



Web site:  http://www.wrigley.com/ 

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