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    "project": "gumdemo",
    "origin_vote": 182,
    "budget_usd": 350,
    "updated": "2026-06-11",
    "schema_version": 1,
    "source": "Mike's handwritten haul list, 2026-06-10 (bullet journal). Enriched from general knowledge 2026-06-11; fields listed in needs_verification are unconfirmed.",
    "notes": "Partial inventory — haul stops 3-6 (H Mart, Tokyo Central, Northgate, drugstore sweep) not yet cataloged. Prices/stores fill in from the receipt stack. Packaging specifics fill in with the physical pack in hand.",
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      "ownership": "Division of Mars, Incorporated (private, family-owned)",
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      "ownership": "Public (NASDAQ: MDLZ)",
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      "founded": 2012,
      "notes": "Trident lineage: American Chicle Co. → Warner-Lambert → Pfizer → Cadbury Adams (2003) → Kraft (2010) → Mondelēz spinoff (2012).",
      "needs_verification": ["founded-as-lineage-detail"]
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    {
      "id": "perfetti-van-melle",
      "name": "Perfetti Van Melle",
      "ownership": "Private (Italian-Dutch family company)",
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      "founded": 2001,
      "notes": "2001 merger of Perfetti (Italy, 1946) and Van Melle (Netherlands, 1900). Owns Mentos and Airheads.",
      "needs_verification": []
    },
    {
      "id": "ford-gum",
      "name": "Ford Gum & Machine Co.",
      "ownership": "Private",
      "hq": "Akron, NY, USA",
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      "notes": "Started in gumball machines. Makes Big League Chew under license since ~2010. BLC was invented in 1980 by Portland Mavericks pitcher Rob Nelson with Jim Bouton — a Portland artifact.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "bazooka-companies",
      "name": "The Bazooka Companies",
      "ownership": "Private equity (Apax Partners, 2022) — formerly the Topps candy division",
      "hq": "New York, NY, USA",
      "founded": 1947,
      "notes": "Bazooka launched 1947 by Topps in Brooklyn. When Fanatics bought Topps' card business (2022), the candy side spun out as The Bazooka Companies.",
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      "name": "Gerrit J. Verburg Co. (Gerrit's)",
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      "notes": "Small company keeping the 19th-century Adams-lineage heritage gums alive: Black Jack, Beemans, Clove, Teaberry. The four 'different' nostalgia gums on the shelf are all one company.",
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      "id": "chowards",
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