Bazooka Candy Brands, maker of the popular bubblegum, has been sold for $700 million to a private equity firm.

Just because: The 1975 MLB Bazooka bubble-blowing contest In 1975, the otherwise affable Joe Garagiola pitted ballplayer against ballplayer in a remorseless duel. The weaponry of choice? Bubble gum.

After 16-years, Bazooka bubble gum is returning to America’s televisions with new commercials in support of the gum’s re-launch.

After a 16-year absence from television, Bazooka bubble gum is back on the air with new commercials beginning this week, as the re-launched gum simultaneously rolls onto store shelves. With an ...

How Bazooka Gum uses nostalgia to drive sweet success More than 75 years after the iconic pink bubble gum first launched, it’s still popular for the flavor, texture and comics that made it famous — ...

Kashawn Williams intercepted a check meant for the bubble-gum manufacturer and then created a phony company called Bazooka 1 in order to deposit it, prosecutors said.

DEL MAR – Some were big, some were little, and in the end, manyof them popped. But the Bazooka gum bubbles blown by the several dozen kids whoclambered onto the Plaza de Mexico stage Tuesday got ...

Like Bob Greene, I too could succumb to Proustian nostalgia by reacquainting my jaws with bubble gum after going decades without it (“Bazooka Joe, We Meet Again,” op-ed, July 31). But if you ...

So, for the kid in us all, pause for a moment today -- or anytime this week -- to pucker up and blow a bubble. Indulge your children and make this an annual celebration in your house; your kids ...

A tiny comic strip has wrapped each piece of gum since 1953. But the company says it's redesigning its packaging to be more relevant to today's bubble-blowing kids. Instead of comics, there will ...

Bazooka bubble gum. (Design by Grace Yagel/ via JTA) The Nosher via JTA — Chew on this: One of America’s most iconic gum brands was originally a Jewish-owned tobacco business.

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 ...