Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola logo, the logo is famous, The logo was first used in 1941.

World of Coca-Cola building

Coca-Cola bottling factory. January 8, 1941,Montreal,Canada.

Coca-Colais acarbonated,sweetenedsoft drinkand is the world's best-selling soda. A popularnicknamefor Coca-Cola is Coke.The Coca-Cola Companyclaims that the beverage is sold in more than 200 countries.Coca-Cola was first made inColumbus, Georgia.The company's headquarters are inAtlanta,Georgia.Coca-Cola's main rival isPepsibecause of the similar taste of their main product. Coca-Cola has 7 cubes ofsugar,whereas Pepsi has 8 cubes of sugar. The Coca-Cola Company is proud to have a long history of sponsoring major events, organizations and projects around the world. Among their most well known sponsorships areAmerican Idol,Apple iTunes,BET Network,NASCAR,NBA,NCAA,Marveland theOlympic Games.After their products were put back on sale inMyanmarin 2012, the only countries that Coca-Cola cannot be bought officially areCubaandNorth Korea,due to trade bans with the US.

History

Coca-Cola was first made in the 1800s byJohn Pemberton.The first sales were at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. They sold it there for five cents a glass, it was very strong tasting because they did not mix it with water. Coca-Cola was first made the way it is now inColumbus, Georgia.It was called Pemberton's FrenchWineCoca at first and was sold as a medicine to help cure colds and give people more energy. The drink used to be sold atsoda fountainsin the United States. It was also created to stop addictions to morphine.

Coca-Cola was first sold inbottlesinAtlantaon March 12, 1894 with actual cocaine content. It was first sold incansin 1955. During the first year, sales were about only nine drinks per day. Dr. Pemberton did not think he could make a lot of money with the drink he invented, so he sold parts of his business to different people. Just before he died in 1888, he sold the rest of his Coca-Cola business to Asa G. Candler. Mr. Candler, together with some other businessmen, started the Coca-Cola Company.

Candler became mayor of Atlanta and gave most of his shares of Coca-Cola to his children. In 1919 the family sold control of Coca-Cola to Ernest Woodruff. In 1923 Woodruff's son Robert Winship Woodruff became president of Coca-Cola, replacing Asa Candler's son Charles Howard Candler.

How Coca-Cola was named

The drink is called "Coca-Cola" because of the coca leaf andkola fruitsthat were used to add flavor. Dr. Pemberton's partner and bookkeeper,Frank Robinson,suggested the name "Coca-Cola" because he thought using the letter C twice would look better than if they used a K in the word "Cola". He then wrote down the name to use as a logo that is now very famous. The recipe was altered after a short while, after the cocaine/cocaleaf reportedly caused cases of hallucinations. Coca has not been used in the formula since 1903.

Coca-Cola's advertising

Coca-Cola was the first eversponsorof theOlympic Games.This was for the 1928 Olympic Games inAmsterdam.

• In 2018, the company spent a whopping $5.8 billion on global advertising, dwarfing its next rival PepsiCo by nearly $2 billion in spending.
• From 1886 to 1959, the price of Coca-Cola was fixed at five cents, in part due to an advertising campaign.

Other products

A glass of Classic Coca-Cola

The company sells many other products, including other sorts of Coca-Cola, such as Diet Coke (1981),Cherry Coke(1985), Diet Cherry Coke (1986), Diet/Coke with Lemon (2001), Diet Vanilla Coke (2002), Diet/ Coke with Lime (2004), Coke Zero (2006), Coca-Cola with Orange (2007), Diet Coke Citrus Zest (2007). Based on Interbrand's best global brand 2011, Coca-Cola was the world's most valuable brand.

Related pages

• Pepsi
• Fanta
• Cola,a generic type of drink
• World of Coca-Colamuseum of Coke history.