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coca-cola.com. Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a cola soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings each day. [1] Coca-Cola ranked No. 94 in the 2024 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States ...
Earl R. Dean (March 19, 1890 – January 8, 1972) [1] designed the famous contour Coca-Cola bottle. [2] In 1914, Harold Hirsch, a lawyer for the Coca-Cola Company, came up with a plan [3] to launch a national competition in which bottle manufactures across the country would be asked to design a distinctive bottle – a bottle which a person ...
Coca-Cola sponsored Walt Disney's first television show "One Hour in Wonderland" broadcast on Christmas Day 1950. [159] Coca-Cola sponsored the 1965 airing of the television special "A Charlie Brown Christmas". [160] Coca-Cola also sponsored the popular Fox singing-competition series American Idol from 2002 until 2014. [161]
John Stith Pemberton. John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola. On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold the rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888.
Victim of torture murder. Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her ...
Nationality. Cuban. American. Known for. CEO/Chairman of Coca-Cola (1980–1997) Roberto Críspulo Goizueta Cantera (November 18, 1931 – October 18, 1997) was a Cuban-born American business executive who served as the chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980 until his death in October 1997.
Known for. Founder of the Coca-Cola Company and philanthropist. Asa Griggs Candler Sr. (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 [1] from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed ...
Joseph A. Biedenharn. Joseph Augustus Biedenharn (December 13, 1866 – October 9, 1952) was an American businessman and confectioner credited in the summer of 1894 with having first bottled the soda fountain drink, Coca-Cola, at his wholesale candy company building in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As he expanded this business, he created a model of ...