The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is a publicly-traded (sold on the stock market) company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its stock symbol is KO. It is on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and makes up a large portion of the holdings of Berkshire Hathaway.
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NYSE: KO Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Beverage |
| Founded | 1886 |
| Founder | Asa Griggs Candler |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Muhtar Kent (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products | List of The Coca-Cola Company products |
| Revenue |  US $48.01 billion (2012)[1] |
| US $10.84 billion (2012)[1] | |
| US $9.01 billion (2012)[1] | |
| Total assets | US $86.17 billion (2012)[1] |
| Total equity | US $32.79 billion (2012)[1] |
Number of employees | 146,200 (Dec 2011)[2] |
| Subsidiaries | List of The Coca-Cola Company subsidiaries |
| Website | Coca-ColaCompany.com |
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Soft drinks
The company is most known for making the drink Coca-Cola, the most drank soft drink in the world. It also makes other soft drinks, including:
- Barq's
- Diet Coke
- Coca-Cola Cherry (Cherry Coke)
- Fanta
- Sprite
- Tab
- Mr. Pibb
- Mello Yellow
- Vault
Business
The company offers 500 different brands and sells more than a billion drinks each day. Most of this is sold in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan and the UK.
Besides soft drinks, the company also makes Minute Maid and Odwalla fruit juices, Powerade, and Dasani bottled water. At one time, the company owned Columbia Pictures, but they are now owned by Sony and also Rockstar energy drink now owned by PepsiCo.
The Coca-Cola Company Media
The Coca-Cola Company's Minute Maid group North America offices in Sugar Land Town Square, Sugar Land, Texas, United States
Certificate of Purchase Class A Stock for 20 Shares of the Coca-Cola Company, issued February 20, 1929
Houston Coca-Cola Bottling Company
A Chevrolet Express van bearing the logo of the Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola Company's office building in Madrid (Spain)
Vendor machine in Berlin, Germany
Coca-Cola bottles as pollution in water
Discussion about plastic waste with Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey
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Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Coca-Cola Company, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Feb 12, 2013" (PDF). secdatabase.com. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Coca-Cola Company, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Feb 23, 2012" (PDF). secdatabase.com. Retrieved February 9, 2013.