Bazooka Candy Brands, which includes the popular bubble gum and candies, just sold for $700 million. The Wall Street Journal reports that private equity firm Apax Partners will buy the company from ...

In 1947, Topps created a bright pink bubble gum square with an initially tough chew, a sweet smell and powerful sugary taste of fruit and cotton candy. A few years later, the company added to its ...

Chewing gum, originally made of chicle from sapodilla trees, has a surprisingly ancient history. Society has been smacking on gum for centuries, starting with the Mayans and the Aztecs before the ...