Interbrand to lead design, packaging initiatives for Wrigley

CINCINNATI Interbrand today announced that its Cincinnati arm will lead the design and packaging initiatives for chewing gum giant Wm. Wrigley Co. of Chicago.

Ronny Kastner, executive director of the Cincinnati account management team, will serve as the Wrigley global relationship manager for the new account.

Wrigley Co., with global sales of $4 billion, produces and distributes 16 international brands and owns such chewing gum brands as Doublemint, Big Red, Winterfresh, Extra, Eclipse, Orbit and Excel, as well as confections that include mints, breath strips and candies. The company had 2007 revenues of $4.6 billion and an average two-year revenue growth of 13.3 percent, according to Bloomberg.

The Cincinnati office of Interbrand, which employs more than 100 at offices in Norwood at the Smith Road exit of I-71, expects the account to bring new jobs to its local division. Kastner led the pitch to be the single global packaging design agency for the Wrigley account.

“We are thrilled, as more than 12 agencies were at the start of the process,” Kastner said.