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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.
Keystone Light beer: 2009–present: Colonel Sanders: KFC restaurants: 1952–present: Colonel Harland Sanders founded Kentucky Fried Chicken and eventually became its mascot; a later cartoon version was voiced by Randy Quaid. Foghorn Leghorn: 1986–1988 One of the Looney Tunes in form of the commercials along with Henery Hawk, Egghead Jr ...
Coca-Cola Enterprises was a marketer, producer, and distributor of Coca-Cola products. It was formerly the anchor bottler for Western Europe and most of North America.. Coca-Cola Enterprises' products included Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Fanta, Capri-Sun, Dr Pepper, Chaudfontaine, Schweppes, [6] Monster and Relentless.
That soda, of course, was Dr Pepper, which was created in 1885 — one year before Coca-Cola came along. (The two brands have had a somewhat contentious history that included multiple lawsuits ...
The last family-held Louisiana Barq's was sold by Robinson's heirs to Coca-Cola in 2000. The world's largest root beer float was created in 1990, when Barq's Root Beer cooperated with a Pick N Save grocery store in Dekalb, Illinois by mixing 1,500 U.S. gallons (5,700 L) of Barq’s root beer with 1,000 U.S. gallons (3,800 L) of vanilla ice ...
Then in 1985, Coca-Cola made one of its most controversial moves when it launched “New Coke,” boasting a new, sweeter recipe more similar to Pepsi’s. ... The commercial declared that Pepsi ...
And the man who found what he believes to be the formula thought for an instant he'd sold it for $15 million. It turns out, in an unfortunate bit of publicity for eBay, the "buyer" was a 15 year ...
The only national products the character promoted were The Coca-Cola Company's sodas, [4] Chex cereals, and Taco John's. [5] The first Ernest commercial, filmed in 1980, advertised an appearance by the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders at Beech Bend Park , an amusement park near Bowling Green, Kentucky .