The Coca-Cola Company
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Coca-Cola packaging redesign spearheads global strategy
DairyReporter.com | 5 days 18 hours 40 minutes ago
Coca-Cola is to create a single global packaging design for its key juice brands as part of a bid to cement its market leadership in the sector, the company has announced.
Coca-Cola net rises, helped by emerging markets - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 34 days 20 hours 27 minutes ago
Profit rose to $1.896 billion from $1.89 billion. Per-share amount was unchanged at 81 cents a share. Operating revenue fell 4% to $8.04 billion from $8.39 billion.
Coca-Cola shrinks cans to fight obesity
FoodNavigator | 34 days 16 hours 41 minutes ago
Coca-Cola has introduced a 90-calorie mini can - billed as a better way to help consumers manage their calories.
Coca-Cola Lays Out Its Vision For a Consumer-Centric Future
MediaPost Communications | 16 hours 10 minutes ago
During a conclave called 2020Vision that it held in Atlanta last week -- its first such summit since 1998 -- Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent admitted that the company had lost its way for a spell as it focused on the "dashboard" and ignored what was going on "outside of our windshield
Costco at War With Coca-Cola
TheStreet.com | 6 days 12 hours 23 minutes ago
ATLANTA (TheStreet) -- Costco Wholesale(COST Quote) is severing its ties with Coca-Cola(KO Quote) after a pricing argument.
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Independent (London), The | 9 days 2 hours 6 minutes ago
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Molson Coors hires former Coca-Cola exec
CNBC | 12 hours 53 minutes ago
DENVER - Molson Coors said Monday it has appointed Krishnan Anand as president of Molson Coors International, effective Dec. 17.
Coca-Cola Unifies Juice Brand Designs
Brandweek | 4 days 14 hours 4 minutes ago
The Coca-Cola Company has re-designed the packaging for its portfolio of global juice brands. The revamped line will make its debut this month with a new design for Minute Maid, and will expand to Del Valle, Andina and Cappy brands in 2010.
Coke Targets Multicultural Communities Year Round
MediaPost Communications | 4 days 22 hours 30 minutes ago
Coca-Cola's top stateside marketing executive delivered some auspicious words for Univision and BET this week, saying that targeting "multicultural" Americans will be paramount for the company over the next decade.
Coca-Cola Begins Global Launch Of 'PlantBottle'
MediaPost Communications | 7 days 3 hours 28 minutes ago
The Coca-Cola Company has announced the start of global roll-out of its patented PlantBottle packaging.
Coca-Cola profit rises slightly; sales fall short - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 34 days 20 hours 41 minutes ago
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Diller Doubles Down on Coca-Cola Shares
Wall Street Journal, The | 20 days 2 hours 13 minutes ago
Barry Diller is betting that Coca-Cola still has plenty of fizz, more than doubling his stake in the beverage company as its stock trades near its 52-week high.
Coke's green message in a bottle
Globe and Mail (Toronto), The | 6 days 19 hours 15 minutes ago
Pop maker hopes for environmentally friendly credibility with new package
Coca-Cola Targets Urban `Boost Zones' in U.S. to Build Soft-Drink Sales
Bloomberg | 8 days 40 minutes ago
The company plans to double the number of so-called â??boost zonesâ?? from 50 North American locations this year, Coca-Cola executives said in interviews last week. In these targeted areas, Coca-Cola and its biggest bottler work directly with retailers to make Coke brands more visible on everything from redesigned menus to visors worn by fast-food workers.
Coca-Cola Reportedly Plans Big China Push
TheStreet.com | 1 day 27 minutes ago
ATLANTA (TheStreet) -- Coca-Cola(KO Quote) is planning to more than double its number of bottling plants over the next decade in China and triple sales to the country's rapidly emerging middle class, the Financial Times reports.
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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 |
