Mars Inc. has the right balance of purpose and profit
Mars, based in McLean, Virginia, since 1974, is now the world's largest confectioner thanks to brands like m&ms Image Source Slough, a sleepy hamlet near London's Heathrow Airport , is Mars Inc's mystical spiritual home. It's not the kind of place where you'd want to spend your sweetest dreams. It is the setting for Ricky Gervais' "The Office" in the United Kingdom. Also in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, Forrest Mars developed two business concepts and a management philosophy that continue to have an impact on the world today. The Mars Bar's origin story is well-known While sipping on a malted milk with his father in Chicago in the 1920s, Forrest Sr. came up with the idea of pouring malted milk chocolate filling into a chocolate bar. As a result, the Milky Way galaxy formed. Slough, a small town in the flight path to Heathrow Airport, is the headquarters of Mars Inc. It's not the kind of place you'd imagine in your dreams. It ...