{"id":226090,"date":"2026-03-05T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mars-wrigley-scales-up-sugar-free-gum-exports-from-kenya\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:32:59","slug":"kenya-mars-wrigley-scales-up-sugar-free-gum-exports-from-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mars-wrigley-scales-up-sugar-free-gum-exports-from-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mars Wrigley Scales Up Sugar-Free Gum Exports From Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Athi River \u2014 <em>Mars Wrigley Kenya has ramped up production of sugar-free gum at its Athi River plant, boosting exports to markets across Africa and the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The company said the facility, which is its only sugar-free gum manufacturing site in Africa, has become a strategic export hub following the launch of a dedicated production line in November 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Exports from the Athi River plant are currently reaching Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, with plans to expand into Libya,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050278.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athi River \u2014 Mars Wrigley Kenya has ramped up production of sugar-free gum at its Athi River plant, boosting exports to markets across Africa and the Middle East. The company said the facility, which is its only sugar-free gum manufacturing site in Africa, has become a strategic export hub following the launch of a dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":226091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7085,37983,4688,430,21395,257,16686,254,53823,53822],"class_list":["post-226090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exports","tag-gum","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mars","tag-news","tag-scales","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sugarfree","tag-wrigley"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}