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Reyes Holdings merged a second subsidiary, Great Lakes Coca-Cola, into Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling effective January 1, 2022. [8] Reyes Coca-Cola has 59 facilities [ 9 ] servicing Chicago, Illinois , Northwest Indiana , Michigan , Wisconsin , southern Minnesota , California , Las Vegas, Nevada , and portions of Tennessee and Kentucky .
Alsip is home to the international headquarters of Griffith Laboratories. [21] One of the two Chicago area Coca-Cola bottling plants is located in Alsip. Alsip is home to Alsip MiniMill, a producer of corrugating medium using Old Corrugated Containers (OCC) as the primary raw material.
The business eventually grew into The Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, which became one of the largest privately held corporations in the United States. After Skakel's death in a plane crash in 1955, his sons George Jr. (who also died in a plane crash, in 1966) [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and James III took over the business.
The 1937 Tifton Coca-Cola Bottling Plant is located at 820 Love Avenue. The building is a two-story, brick, commercial Beaux Arts -style building with tile roof, heavy modillions under the cornice, metal factory sash-windows, leaded-glass transoms over plate glass display windows, and decorative cast-concrete door surround.
Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc., headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the United States. [ 3 ] The company makes, sells and distributes Coca-Cola products along with other beverages, distributing to a market of 65 million people in 14 states. [ 4 ]
Coca-Cola is not required to report how much water it processes and bottles at these plants. [17] Bottled water is an exception to the rule about how much water can be taken out of the Great Lakes Basin. [17] Bottled water takes extra energy to produce from filtration, production of bottles, and transportation costs. [19]
A loaf of bread went for 10 cents in 1919 and today Wonder Bread goes for $3.50 a loaf, while a modern cotton farmer gets less money per pound than his great-grandfather did a century ago.
That family had a long-term association with Coca-Cola as they started Brennan's Vend Works, which had been selling Coke products since its founding in 1950. [6] After two years of renovations led by James Brennan, the building reopened in 2023 as "The Coke Plant", a wedding venue with a 500-person capacity.