How a Candy Company Bought the Pet Industry

你以为它只卖巧克力?全球宠物医院都是它的!

History of Everything

2026-10-26

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  • Well, hello, my friends.

  • Today, we're going to be talking about probably the most unique consumer goods company

  • to ever exist in, well, I mean, all of existence.

  • From a small candy operation to a family-controlled conglomerate

  • with well over $50 billion a year in profit.

  • Yes.

  • Yeah, that that that's a lot.

  • We're going to be covering the rise of an industry giant

  • that is still, weirdly enough, privately owned.

  • Something that is almost unheard of in today's corporation-filled global economy.

  • In a world of massive corporate entities waging product combat against each other

  • like the Roman gods of legend,

  • in order to tell the story, we're going to need to be drizzling

  • like a flow of chocolate across the river Twix,

  • which is absolutely an awful joke here in the first place,

  • but I didn't really misspeak because we're talking about the god of snack food war, Mars.

  • Yes.

  • Yes, there are so many different layers to that joke,

  • kind of like the layers of a candy bar.

  • But first, in order to be able to understand that,