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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 inventor John Pemberton is known to have shared his original formula with at least four people before his death in 1888. [1] In 1891, Asa Candler purchased the rights to the formula from Pemberton's estate, founded the Coca-Cola Company, and instituted the shroud of secrecy that has since enveloped the formula. He also made changes to ...
Coca-Cola Advertisement, 1886. In the 1880s, a pharmacist in Georgia, John Pemberton, took caffeine extracted from kola nuts and cocaine-containing extracts from coca leaves and mixed them with sugar, other flavorings, and carbonated water to invent Coca-Cola, the first widely popular cola soft drink. [1]
Coke (KO) is the real thing, at least as far as American consumers are concerned. A fixture on the cultural scene almost since its 1886 introduction, the brown, caffeinated soda shows up in every ...
Does Coca-Cola really have the gall to play the environmental card? When SeaWorld Entertainment opens the new Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin ride at SeaWorld Orlando on Friday, it will do so ...
Though Coca-Cola has delivered stock appreciation for the past three years, it has consistently underperformed PepsiCo in the same time frame. For instance, while Coca-Cola has seen stock ...
In 1903, Coca-Cola had already stopped using spent coca leaves (which only carried trace amounts of cocaine) and had dropped the claim that it cured headaches. [1] But to compensate, the company had increased the amount of caffeine, and Wiley believed that even small amounts of caffeine in beverages was harmful to people. [2]
Shares of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO ) hit a 52-week high yesterday. Let's take a look at how the company got there to find out whether clear skies remain on the horizon. How it got hereThere's something ...