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The Mars family is an American family that owns the confectionery company Mars Inc. In 1988, the family was ranked as the richest family in the United States of America by Fortune magazine. It has since been surpassed by the Walton family and the Koch family, and was ranked as the third richest family in America in 2016. [1]
7 lip 2021 · Press-shy and limelight-avoidant, the Mars family remains a bit of a mystery. They’ve been known to keep the company “notoriously private”, according to Business Insider, while The Guardian ...
When Forrest Sr. died in 1999, his children — Jacqueline, John, and Forrest Jr. Mars — inherited a stake in the company. Currently, Jacqueline and John co-own, but don't actively manage, Mars...
20 maj 2024 · Forrest Mars Jr. died in 2016 at the age of 84, leaving his stake to be split among his four daughters: Victoria Mars, Marijke Mars, Valerie Mars, and Pamela Mars-Wright. Each of his daughters has an estimated net worth of $11.6 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
Press-shy and limelight-avoidant, the Mars family remains a bit of a mystery. They've been known to keep the company "notoriously private," in the words of Business Insider's Cadie Thompson .
30 mar 2019 · The Mars family's fortune is rooted in its family-owned chocolate empire, Mars Inc. Founder Frank Mars learned to hand-dip chocolates at a young age; in 1911, he began selling chocolate from his kitchen in Tacoma, Washington.
Mars died at age 95 on July 1, 1999, in Miami, Florida, having amassed a fortune of $4 billion. Forbes magazine ranked him as the 30th richest American (Forrest Jr. and John were 29th and 31st, respectively) and as the 103rd wealthiest person in the world.
