Family owned values are becoming less and less important as company tries to drive "shareholder" earnings increases. - Mitarbeiter (anonym) bei Mars: Mitarbeiterbewertung

The acquisition of Wrigley has put a lot of short term pressures on Mars to cut costs and return a certain bottomline at all costs. This would often mean senseless hiring freezes and travel bans when all logic and economic conditions in the marketplace would tell you otherwise. The company is extremely short term focused.