The Coca-Cola Company
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iCrossing Extends Toyota Mobile Site to Include Certified Used Vehicles [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 48 days 2 minutes ago
...connect with their customers. The company blends best-in-class digital...Fortune 500 companies, including The Coca-Cola Company and Office Depot. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the company has 550 employees in 12...
SABMiller and Molson Coors Report Double-Digit Quarterly Earnings Growth for MillerCoors [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 18 days 19 hours 35 minutes ago
LONDON and DENVER, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Driven by strong revenue growth, cost management and continued synergy delivery, SABMiller plc (SAB.L) and Molson Coors Brewing Company
Numero Uno To Set Up New Manufacturing Facility
Financial Express (India), The | 12 days 23 hours 2 minutes ago
Denimwear maker Numero Uno is expanding its operations to tap new export opportunities. The company is setting up a new stitching plant with a capacity of three lakh pieces a month at Selaqui near Dehradun in Uttranchal.
Coca-Cola pins hopes on future of new, rising middle class in countries like China, India -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | 6 days 15 hours 56 minutes ago
ATLANTA (AP) — Coca-Cola Co. seeks to double its business in the next decade as it caters to the expected billion people worldwide who will join the middle class by 2020.
Former New York Times distributor sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for fraud
Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) | 9 days 15 hours 36 minutes ago
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former New York Times distributor has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for defrauding the newspaper company out of $334,000.
General Electric Strives For Greater Frankness In Its Citizenship Reports, Ethikos Reports [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 14 hours 31 minutes ago
...impacted employees. Of the disciplinary actions...percent occurred outside the United States." ...says Corcoran. But now the company feels positive about publishing...have included profiles of Coca Cola, Cisco, McDonald's...
Bringing creativity back to Coca-Cola Co.
ABA SmartBrief | 131 days 8 hours 35 minutes ago
...marketing strategy and creative communications at Coca-Cola Co., is the man behind such global concepts as "Open Happiness." He says the company has created a talent pool that works with agencies...
Autonomy Completes Integration of Idol Into Scrittura [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 95 days 5 hours 34 minutes ago
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, August 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc
Clorox CEO gets $7.5M in fiscal 2009 compensation
Seattle Times, The | 39 days 17 hours 28 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO Clorox Co. gave CEO Don Knauss compensation valued at $7.5 million, a 5 percent raise, as the company's profit rose despite the economic tumult of the past year. The Oakland, Calif.-based consumer products maker boosted Knauss' salary by 7 percent to $1.1 million for fiscal 2009, which ended in June. He was also awarded stock and options worth nearly $5 million at the time they were granted on Sept. 16, 2008, up 9.5 percent from the prior year, according to an Oct. 2 regulator...
Wire Business News
Sacramento Bee (Calif.), The | 39 days 17 hours 18 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO -- Clorox Co. gave CEO Don Knauss compensation valued at $7.5 million, a 5 percent raise, as the company's profit rose despite the economic tumult of the past year.
AP State Business News
Sacramento Bee (Calif.), The | 39 days 17 hours 18 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO -- Clorox Co. gave CEO Don Knauss compensation valued at $7.5 million, a 5 percent raise, as the company's profit rose despite the economic tumult of the past year.
Clorox CEO gets $7.5M in fiscal 2009 compensation
Forbes | 39 days 17 hours 23 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO -- Clorox Co. gave CEO Don Knauss compensation valued at $7.5 million, a 5 percent raise, as the company's profit rose despite the economic tumult of the past year.
Coca-Cola introduces bioplastic bottles
SmartBrief on Sustainability | 5 days 7 hours 35 minutes ago
Coca-Cola launched a line of bottles...will significantly reduce the amount of plastic used in...petroleum-based materials. The bottles will first appear...and Western Canada, though the company aims to move to worldwide...
ADDING MULTIMEDIA Las Vegas Resident Selected as Winner of Coca-Cola/Albertsons 2009 Dream Home Sweepstakes [Press Release]
Business Wire | 26 days 17 hours 6 minutes ago
This past summer Las Vegas resident Dana Stanley stopped by her neighborhood Albertsons to do some grocery shopping, which included picking up her favorite Coca-Cola products – Diet Coke with Lime for her and Coca-Cola and Sprite for her family. With her purchase, she was automatically entered to win a beautiful $250,000 Taylor Morrison home in Southern California. To her surprise, Stanley was selected as the winner of the 2009 Coca-Cola California Dream Home Giveaway promotion sponsored by A...
Ryan Seacrest to Host Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities Hearts and Hands Gala October 24th [Press Release]
Business Wire | 31 days 17 hours 13 minutes ago
Atlanta Ronald McDonald House Charities (ARMHC) announces its Hearts and Hands Gala at 7pm on Saturday, October 24, at the World of Coca-Cola. Atlanta’s own Ryan Seacrest of “American Idol” will serve as host of the sold out black-tie dinner which will feature a special performance by “American Idol” season six finalist, Melinda Doolittle and a silent auction. The Coca-Cola Company is the event’s presenting sponsor. The Event Chair is Javier Goizueta, Vice President, The Coca-Cola Company and...
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Company Overview
| Company: | The Coca-Cola Company |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Carbonated Beverages |
| Website: | http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com |
Coke is it -- it being the world's #1 soft-drink company. The Coca-Cola Company owns four of the top five soft-drink brands (Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, and Sprite). Its other brands include Barq's, Minute Maid, POWERade, and Dasani water. In North America it sells Groupe Danone's Evian. It also sells brands from Dr Pepper Snapple Group (Crush, Dr Pepper, and Schweppes) outside Australia, Europe, and North America. The firm makes or licenses more than 500 drink products in more than 200 nations. Although it does no bottling itself, Coke owns 35% of Coca-Cola Enterprises (the #1 Coke bottler in the world), 32% of Mexico's bottler Coca-Cola FEMSA, and 23% of European bottler Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 31,944 (2008) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | 10.7 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 5,807 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | -2.9 (2008) |
| Number of Employees | 92,400 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 2.1 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |