it is the second largest public company in the United States
Its headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
It operates in almost 200 countries
It ships nearly 13 billion cases each year
it has 8 million wholesale customers
It's biggest customer is McDonalds
Here you will find a brief summary of the Coca-Cola
company, I hope you find it usefull.
THE BEGINNING OF COCA-COLA
Coca-Cola was invented in 1886 by a pharmacist called John Styth Pemberton
which makes it over a century old. John owned a drug store in Atlanta, where
he sold cough mixtures and other medicines.
In 1885 Pemberton mixed up a French Wine Cola and sold his new product as a
cure for headaches. On Saturday 8 May 1886 John took his new product to another
drugstore to do a test.
This particular pharmacy had their own soda fountain which adds carbon dioxide
to water to give it a fizz, and then mixes it with a syrup to make a fizzy
refreshing drink. Everybody who tried this so called "headache cure" said it was
excellent. At this stage it still did not have a name. Then one of Johns partners
came up with the name Coca-Cola Syrup and Extract, Coca-Cola for short.
After this Coca-Cola went on sale immediately for five cents a glass.
Biblography: Business in action Coca-Cola, William Gould
