LONDON: Mars Inc, the maker of its namesake chocolate bar and Wrigley’s chewing gum, is spending US$1bil on sustainability with a strategy to make greener practices increase profits.
“There is a very concrete business case to this,” Barry Parkin, chief procurement and sustainability officer at Mars, said in a phone interview. “We’re going to get a payback on that billion several times over.”
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