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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.
Asa Griggs "Buddie" Candler Jr. (August 27, 1880 – January 11, 1953) was an American businessman and the son of Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company. Candler Jr. helped build his father's business into an empire.
Williams Mill Road would be renamed Briarcliff Road in the 1920s after the estate that Asa Jr. would build there. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1] Asa Jr. was the eccentric son of Asa Griggs Candler, co-founder of Coca-Cola. Candler Jr. helped build his father's business into an empire.
That's why, several years after the famous drink's invention, Atlanta businessman Asa G. Candler incorporated Coca-Cola in Atlanta on Jan. 29, 1892. Candler had taken full control of the Coke name ...
The first Coca-Cola was incorporated in Georgia on March 24, 1888. This is never part of the official Coke story, as today's Coke traces its origins its incorporation by Asa G. Candler in 1892 ...
Before his death in 1888, Pemberton sold a majority of his company to businessman Asa G. Candler, who expanded to soda fountains beyond Atlanta and allowed a trio of entrepreneurs to bring Coca ...
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 ...
Beginning in January of 1891, Grier's almanac advertised that Coca-Cola was available in large bottles for 25 cents. Asa Candler eventually saw no advantage to selling his product in and eventually sold off the bottling rights to Coca-Cola for a $1.00 to two enterprising lawyers from Tennessee a few years later.