Getty Images A former Mars Wrigley employee convicted of scamming the confectionery company out of more than $1.2 million is headed to prison, according to federal prosecutors in Georgia.

The Mars Wrigley factory in the city of Elizabethtown was fined more than $14,500 (£12,000) by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The workers were contractors who did not work ...

Warren Buffett laid out $6.5 billion to help Mars acquire Wrigley in October 2008, cementing one of the few mega-mergers during the financial crisis and creating a global confectionery giant.

The company was acquired by Mars in 2008 for $23 billion. The Wrigley's gum brand is the world's most popular gum brand with sales more than twice as much as the No. 2 brand, Kraft Foods' Trident ...