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Fun Facts on Coca-Cola
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Fun Facts on Coca-Cola
Dr. John Styth Pemberton, a pharmacist, produced what was to become the Coca-Cola syrup, in a three legged brass pot.
Dr. John Pemberton's partner and bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, suggested the name Coca-Cola, and designed the famous flowing script distinguishing the famous trademark.
On January 31, 1893 the trademark "Coca-Cola" was registered in the United States Patent Office, and by 1895 it was drunk in every state and territory in the United States. Today, Coca-Cola can be found virtually every city in the world.
The Coca-Cola bottling system is the largest, most widespread production and distribution network in the world.
Coca-Cola is sold in 195 countries around the world, and requested in more than 80 languages.
Coca-Cola is enjoyed more than 773,000,000 times a day around the world.
Coca-Cola is the largest selling soft drink in the world, and the taste is the same wherever consumed.
The contour bottle for Coca-Cola is recognized by 90% of the people on earth.
More than one billion cans and bottles of Coca-Cola were sold in South Africa alone in 1994.
If placed end to end, flat on the ground, the line of Coca-Cola cases would go around the earths's equatorial circumference 6,75 times.
The total content of all these bottles would fill more than 3,5 million bath tubs.
The price of Coca-Cola first exceeded 5¢ per serving in 1946 in Los Angeles.
In 1969, the code name, "Project Arden," was used for the introduction of a new graphic look for
The Coca-Cola Company. The result? A consistent identity for packaging, advertising -- everything --
incorporating the signature Dynamic Ribbon.
Coca-Cola syrup was first shipped in used whiskey kegs and barrels -- but they were repainted
red to give them a distinctive mark.
The greater Mexico City bottler produces the greatest volume of any Coca-Cola bottler on the
globe.
The consumption of Coca-Cola classic in the United States exceeds each of the following: bottled
water, juices, powdered drinks, wine and distilled spirits.
It took 58 years -- until 1944 -- to sell the first billion gallons of Coca-Cola syrup. Today, that
billion gallon mark falls every 7-1/2 months.
Cuba and Panama were the first two countries to bottle Coca-Cola outside the United States.
If the Coca-Cola company constructed a sign like the ones McDonald's uses to count their
millions of customers, by 1983 it would have read "over 1 trillion served."
Coca-Cola trucks travel over 1,000,000 miles a day to supply consumers with soft drinks.
200 billion servings of Coca-Cola would fill 213,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
John Pemberton walked the first gallon of Coca-Cola syrup to Jacob's Pharmacy on May 8, 1886.
In the rain. Uphill. Both ways. allright... allright... Today, the company and its bottlers rely on the
largest commercial fleet in the world.
In 1894, the first syrup plant outside of Atlanta was opened in Dallas.
If all the Coca-Cola vending machines in the U.S. were stacked one on top of another, the pile
would be over 450 miles high.
In 1928, sales of bottled Coca-Cola surpassed fountain sales for the first time.
If all of the Coca-Cola sold in 1994 were in 8-ounce bottles laid end-to-end, those bottles would
reach to the moon and back 76 times.
If all of The Coca-Cola Company products sold in 1994 were flowing over Niagara Falls at its
normal rate of 1.5 billion gallons per second, the falls would flow for 3 hours.
During 1886, sales averaged nine drinks per day (total -- not per person). Most recently, sales of
Company products were more than 411 million drinks per day (total -- not per person).
25 gallons of syrup were sold in 1886, compared to 1.6 billion gallons in 1985.
In 1886, Frank Robinson used his own pen and ink to script the first Coca-Cola trademark. Today,
Coca-Cola is the most recognized trademark in the world, spoken in 80 languages.
If one bottle could be made large enough to contain all the Coca-Cola ever produced, it would be
6,365 feet high and 1,930 feet wide. A person of proportionate size to the bottle would be a giant 10.9
miles tall and weigh over two million pounds.
If all the Coca-Cola ever produced was in normal bottles placed end-to-end, they would wrap the
earth 4,712 times.
Coca-Cola is the world's most recognizable trademark...recognized by 94% of the world's
population.
There are about 7,000 soft drinks from the Coca-Cola Company consumed every second of every day.
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