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The Coca-Cola Company

Type

Public (NYSE: KO)

Founded

1892 (1892)

Headquarters

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Area served

Worldwide

Key people

Industry

Muhtar Kent (Chairman and CEO)[1] Beverage Coca-Cola Carbonated Soft Drinks

Products

Water Other Non-alcoholic beverages [2]

Revenue

▲ US$ 31.944 billion (2008) [3]

Operating income

▲ US$ 8.446 billion (2008)

Net income

▼ US$ 5.807 billion (2008)

Total assets

▼ US$ 40.519 billion (2008)

Total equity

▼ US$ 20.472 billion (2008)

Employees

Website

92,400 (October 2009) The Coca-Cola Company Corporate Website

One of the Coca-Cola Company's headquarters buildings in Atlanta The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is the world's largest beverage company, largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups in the world and is one of the largest corporations in the United States. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage, Coca-Cola currently offers nearly 400 brands in over 200 countries or territories and serves 1.5 billion servings each day.[4] The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The CocaCola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory. The Coca-Cola Company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its stock is listed on the NYSE and is part of DJIA and S&P 500. Its current chairman and CEO is Muhtar Kent.

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1 Brands

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2 History

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3 Revenue

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4 Bottlers

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5 Products and brands

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6 Criticism

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7 Sponsorship

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8 In video games

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9 References

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10 External links

[edit] Brands The Coca-Cola Company brands include: •

Barq's

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Coca-Cola

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Coke Zero

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Dasani water

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Diet Coke

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Glacéau

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Fanta

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Fresca

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Full Throttle

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Fuze

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Lift

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Minute Maid

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Oasis

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Odwalla

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Powerade

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Pibb

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Sprite

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Tab

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Thums Up

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Urge

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Vault

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Inka Cola ○

Beverly (drink) (only sold in Italy)

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Fiora (drink) (only sold in Ecuador)

[edit] History The Coca-Cola Company was originally established as the J. S. Pemberton Medicine Company, a co-partnership between Dr. John Stith Pemberton and Ed Holland .[5] The company was formed to sell three main products: Pemberton's French Wine Cola (later known as Coca-Cola), Pemberton's Indian Queen Hair Dye, and Pemberton's Globe Flower Cough Syrup.[5]

In 1884, the company became a stock company and the name was changed to Pemberton Chemical Company.[5] The new president was D. D. Doe while Ed Holland became the new Vice-President.[5] Pemberton stayed on as the superintendent.[5] The company's factory was located at No. 107, Marietta St.[5] Three years later, the company was again changed to Pemberton Medicine Company, another co-partnership, this time between Pemberton, A. O. Murphy, E. H. Bloodworth, and J. C. Mayfield.[5] Finally in October 1888, the company received a charter with an authorized capital of $50,000.[5] The charter became official on January 15, 1889. By this time, the company had expanded its offerings to include Pemberton's Orange and Lemon Elixir.[5]

[edit] Revenue

The Coca-Cola Company North America offices in Sugar Land, Texas, United States According to the 2005 Annual Report,[6] the company sells beverage products in more than 200 [7] countries. The report further states that of the more than 50 billion beverage servings of all types consumed worldwide every day, beverages bearing the trademarks owned by or licensed to Coca-Cola account for approximately 1.5 billion. Of these, beverages bearing the trademark "Coca-Cola" or "Coke" accounted for approximately 78% of the Company's total gallon sales. Also according to the 2007 Annual Report, Coca-Cola had gallon sales distributed as follows: •

37% in the United States

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43% in Mexico, Brazil, Japan and the People's Republic of China

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20% spread throughout the rest of the world

[edit] Bottlers

Houston Coca-Cola Bottling Company Main article: List of assets owned by The Coca-Cola Company In general, The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and/or subsidiaries only produces (or produce) syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold a Coca-Cola franchise. Coca-Cola bottlers, who hold territorially exclusive contracts with the

company, produce finished product in cans and bottles from the concentrate in combination with filtered water and sweeteners. The bottlers then sell, distribute and merchandise the resulting Coca-Cola product to retail stores, vending machines, restaurants and food service distributors. One notable exception to this general relationship between TCCC and bottlers is fountain syrups in the United States, where TCCC bypasses bottlers and is responsible for the manufacture and sale of fountain syrups directly to authorized fountain wholesalers and some fountain retailers.

[edit] Products and brands Main article: Coca-Cola brands The Coca-Cola Company offers nearly 400 brands in over 200 countries, besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage. This includes other varieties of Coca-Cola such as: •

Diet Coke (introduced in 1982), which uses aspartame, a synthetic phenylalaninebased artificial sweetener in place of sugar

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Diet Coke Caffeine-Free

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Cherry Coke (1985)

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Diet Cherry Coke (1986)

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Coke with Lemon (2001)

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Diet Coke with Lemon (2001)

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Vanilla Coke (2002)

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Diet Vanilla Coke (2002)

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Coca-Cola C2 (2004)

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Coke with Lime (2004)

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Aquarius Mineral Water (2004)

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Diet Coke with Lime (2004)

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Diet Coke Sweetened with Splenda (2005)

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Coca-Cola Zero (2005)

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Coca-Cola Black Cherry Vanilla (2006)

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Diet Coca-Cola Black Cherry Vanilla (2006)

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Coca-Cola BlāK (2006)

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Diet Coke Plus (2007)

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Coca-Cola Orange (2007)

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Diet Coca-Cola with Citrus Extract (2008)

Tab was Coca-Cola's first attempt to develop a diet soft drink, using saccharin as a sugar substitute. Introduced in 1963, the product is still sold today, however its sales have dwindled since the introduction of Diet Coke. The Coca-Cola Company also produces a number of other soft drinks including Fanta (introduced circa 1942 or 1943) and Sprite. Fanta's origins date back to World War II when Max Keith, who managed Coca-Cola's operations in Germany during the war, ran out of the ingredients for Coke, which could be supplied only from the United States. Keith resorted to producing a different soft drink, Fanta, which proved to be a hit, and when Coke took over again after the war, it adopted the Fanta brand as well. The German Fanta Klare Zitrone

("Clear Lemon Fanta") variety became Sprite, another of the company's bestsellers and its response to 7 Up. During the 1990s, the company responded to the growing consumer interest in healthy beverages by introducing several new non-carbonated beverage brands. These included Minute Maid Juices to Go, Powerade sports beverage, flavored tea Nestea (in a joint venture with Nestle), Fruitopia fruit drink and Dasani water, among others. In 2001, Minute Maid division launched the Simply Orange brand of juices including orange juice. In 2004, perhaps in response to the burgeoning popularity of low-carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins Diet, Coca-Cola announced its intention to develop and sell a low-carbohydrate alternative to Coke Classic, dubbed C2 Cola. C2 contains a mix of high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, sucralose, and Acesulfame potassium. C2 is designed to more closely emulate the taste of Coca-Cola Classic. Even with less than half of the food energy and carbohydrates of standard soft drinks, C2 is not a replacement for zero-calorie soft drinks such as Diet Coke. C2 went on sale in the U.S. on June 11, 2004, and in Canada in August 2004. C2's future is uncertain due to disappointing sales. Coca-Cola is the best-selling soft drink in most countries. While the Middle East is one of the only regions in the world where Coca-Cola is not the number one soda drink, Coca-Cola nonetheless holds almost 25% marketshare (to Pepsi's 75%) and had double-digit growth in 2003.[8] Similarly, in Scotland, where the locally produced Irn-Bru was once more popular, 2005 figures show that both Coca-Cola and Diet Coke now outsell Irn-Bru.[9] In Peru, the native Inca Kola has been more popular than Coca-Cola, which prompted Coca-Cola to enter in negotiations with the soft drink's company and buy 50% of its stakes. In Japan, the best selling soft drink is not cola, as (canned) tea and coffee are more popular.[10] As such, the Coca-Cola Company's best selling brand there is not Coca-Cola, but Georgia.[11] Some claim Coke is less popular in India due to suspicions regarding the health standards of the drink. On July 6, 2006, a Coca-Cola employee and two other people were arrested and charged with trying to sell trade secrets information to the soft drink maker's competitor, PepsiCo for $1.5 million. The recipe for Coca-Cola, perhaps the company's most closely guarded secret, was never in jeopardy. Instead, the information was related to a new beverage in development. Coca-Cola executives verified that the documents were valid and proprietary. At least one glass vial containing a sample of a new drink was offered for sale, court documents said. The conspiracy was revealed by PepsiCo, which notified the authorities when they were approached by the conspirators.[12] The company announced a new "negative calorie" green tea drink, Enviga, in 2006, along with trying coffee retail concepts Far Coast and Chaqwa. On May 25, 2007, Coca-Cola announced it would purchase Glaceau, a maker of flavored vitamin-enhanced drinks (vitamin water), flavored waters, and energy drinks, for $4.1 billion in cash.[13] On September 3, 2008, Coca-Cola announced its intention to make cash offers to purchase China Huiyuan Juice Group Limited (which has a 42% share of the Chinese pure fruit juice market[14]) for US$2.4bn (HK$12.20 per share).[15] China's ministry of commerce blocked the deal on March 18, 2009, arguing that the deal would hurt small local juice companies, could have pushed up juice market prices and limited consumers’ choices.[16] In October 2009, Coca-Cola revealed its new 90-calorie mini can that holds 7.5 fluid ounces. [17] The first shipments are expected to reach the New York City and Washington D.C. markets in December 2009 and nationwide by March 2009. [17]

[edit] Criticism

Main article: Criticism of Coca-Cola The Coca-Cola Company has been involved in a number of controversies and lawsuits related to its perceived relationship with human rights violations and other perceived unethical practices. A number of lawsuits have been issued in relation to its allegedly monopolistic and discriminatory practices, some of which have been dismissed, some of which have caused The Coca-Cola Company to change its business practices, and some of which have been settled out of court.[18] It has also been involved in a discrimination case. There have been continuing criticisms regarding the Coca-Cola Company's relation to the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. An issue with pesticides in groundwater in 2003 led to problems for the company when an Indian NGO, Centre for Science and Environment, announced that it had found cancer causing chemicals in Coca-Cola as well as other soft drinks produced by the company, at levels 30 times that considered safe by the European Economic Commission. This caused an 11 percent drop in Indian Coca-Cola sales.[19][20] The Indian Health Minister said the CSE tests were inaccurate, and said that the government's tests found pesticide levels within India's standards but above EU standards.[21][22] The UK-based Central Science Laboratory, commissioned by Coke, found its products met EU standards in 2006.[23] Coke and the University of Michigan commissioned an independent study of its bottling plants by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), which reported in 2008 no unsafe chemicals in the water supply, though it criticized Coke for the impact of its water usage on local supply.[24] The company has been criticised on a number of environmental issues. Critics claim that the company's overuse of local water supplies in some locations has led to severe shortages for regional farmers and the forced closure of some plants[25]. Packaging used in Coca-Cola's products have a significant environmental impact. However, the company strongly opposes attempts to introduce mechanisms such as container deposit legislation.[26] There are charges that the Coca-Cola Company was involved in the violent repression of a union at several of its bottling plants in Colombia, South America. As of August 2005, when PBS's Frontline ran a story on the controversy, Coca-Cola strenuously denied all allegations of union-busting and murder of union leaders. Shareholders and U.S. colleges[27][28] have boycotted Coca-Cola to try to put pressure on the company to approve a full-scale, independent investigation of the charges.[29] On 10 Dec 2008, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote to Mr. Muhtar Kent, President and Chief Executive Officer, to warn him that the FDA had concluded that CocaCola's product Diet Coke Plus 20 FL OZ was is in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. [30] In January 2009, the US consumer group the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a class-action lawsuit against Coca-Cola[31]. The lawsuit was in regards to claims made, along with the company's flavors, of Vitamin Water. Claims say that the 33 grams of sugar are more harmful than the vitamins and other additives are helpful. Coca-Cola insists the suit is "ridiculous."

[edit] Sponsorship Coca-Cola has sponsored the English Football League since the beginning of the 2004-05 season (beginning August 2004). Other major sponsorships include NASCAR, the NBA, the PGA Tour, NCAA Championships, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the NRL and the UEFA European Football Championship, as well as the hit Fox singing-competition series American Idol. Coca-Cola is a sponsor of the nightly talk show on PBS, Charlie Rose. It has also sponsored Barcelona Olympic games in 1992.

[edit] In video games In PlayStation Home, the PlayStation 3's online community-based service, Coca-Cola has placed a vending machine in Home that takes users to a space called the "Georgia Break Station". The vending machine also distributes original avatar items and presents, along with "C-pons", digital coupons that can be used to get real drinks from real vending machines. This is to promote Coca-Cola's Georgia series of canned coffee. The space is a lounge where users can sit and chat and includes two in-lounge avatars that tell the users about the Georgia coffee. It will be available from September 7, 2009 to December 15, 2009 in the Japanese version of Home.[32] In Dreamcast's Shenmue in 1999, Coca-Cola was featured in the Japanese only version when the main Character Ryo Hazuki finds vending machines on the street corners in the video game, and actual cans that were sold in Japan in 1986, the setting of the video game. Sometimes, Ryo gets a special can which can be turned in for prizes.

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Important awards and recognition for Coca-Cola Hellenic At the 2009 Beverage Innovation Awards, Coca-Cola Hellenic received three prestigious awards in various categories of the competition. This year’s awards took place in Munich, Germany and over 500 business representatives attended the ceremony. The Company operations in Austria won the first prize for Römerquelle emotion blackberry and lime flavour water in the category ‘Best new flavoured water’.

The active lifestyle programme ‘Wake your Body’ run by Coca-Cola HBC Hungary, was awarded in the ‘Best health initiative’ category, by recognising the Company’s efforts to promote an active lifestyle among employees and members of the community. Coca-Cola Hellenic also received a Special Commendation in the ‘Best environmental initiative’ category for its outstanding and sustainable international contribution to water stewardship

More projects and campaigns initiated by the Company operations ranked very high in the competition. Among those was the ‘5-aday’ Amita campaign in Greece, which was a finalist in the ‘Best health initiative’ category. Also, in the ‘Best ethical initiative’ category the emergency relief offered by the Italian operations after the disastrous earthquake in 2009 was very highly commended.

Coca-Cola Hellenic in Hungary receives the '2008 Heartfriendly Workplace' award

Coca-Cola HBC Hungary received the ’Heartfriendly Workplace’ award organised by the National Institute for Health Development, OEFI, at the ‘Flora Healthy Workplace’ competition. The award presented on July 2009 came as recognition for the Company’s results and efforts achieved in the ’Wake Your Body’ programme.

The criteria that companies have to fulfil in order to receive the award include excellent practices in workplace healthcare, healthy nutrition, active lifestyle, office ergonomy and mental hygiene.The final decision for the award winning organisation is made by a jury, consisting of experts from the National Institute for Health Development, Unilever Company, Oysterling PR Agency and Associations for Healthy Hungary. Significant competitors of the Company were Pasc Nuclear Power Plant (second place) and the Hungarian Telecom (third place). Coca-Cola HBC Hungary is now the first company in the country to have received this award for two consecutive years.

Awards have been presented in a variety of categories:

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Our mission and values

Our mission is to refresh our consumers, partner with our customers, reward our stakeholders and enrich the lives of our local communities. Our corporate vision Our corporate vision is to become ‘the undisputed leader…in every market we compete’. We can only achieve this through:

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developing excellent people

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achieving excellent customer partnership and consumer satisfaction

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exploring new opportunities

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building and leveraging superior organisational capability

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excelling at availability, affordability, acceptability and activation

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continuously optimising our cost to serve while acting responsibly to ensure the sustainability of our business, our communities and the world in which we live.

Our values •

acting with integrity and delivering on every promise

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committing passionately to excel at all we do

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competing to win, as one team

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ensuring our people reach their full potential

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treating everyone openly, honestly and with respect Back to top

Mission, Vision & Values The world is changing all around us. To continue to thrive as a business over the next ten years and beyond, we must look ahead, understand the trends and forces that will shape our business in the future and move swiftly to prepare for what's to come. We must get ready for tomorrow today. That's what our 2020 Vision is all about. It creates a long-term destination for our business and provides us with a "Roadmap" for winning together with our bottler partners. Our Mission Our Roadmap starts with our mission, which is enduring. It declares our purpose as a company and serves as the standard against which we weigh our actions and decisions. •

To refresh the world...

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To inspire moments of optimism and happiness...

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To create value and make a difference.

Our Vision

Our vision serves as the framework for our Roadmap and guides every aspect of our business by describing what we need to accomplish in order to continue achieving sustainable, quality growth.

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People: Be a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best they can be.

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Partners: Nurture a winning network of customers and suppliers, together we create mutual, enduring value.

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Planet: Be a responsible citizen that makes a difference by helping build and support sustainable communities.

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Profit: Maximize long-term return to shareowners while being mindful of our overall responsibilities.

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Productivity: Be a highly effective, lean and fast-moving organization.

Portfolio: Bring to the world a portfolio of quality beverage brands that anticipate and satisfy people's desires and needs.

Our Winning Culture Our Winning Culture defines the attitudes and behaviors that will be required of us to make our 2020 Vision a reality. Live Our Values Our values serve as a compass for our actions and describe how we behave in the world.

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Leadership: The courage to shape a better future Collaboration: Leverage collective genius Integrity: Be real Accountability: If it is to be, it's up to me Passion: Committed in heart and mind Diversity: As inclusive as our brands Quality: What we do, we do well

Focus on the Market •

Focus on needs of our consumers, customers and franchise partners

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Get out into the market and listen, observe and learn

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Possess a world view

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Focus on execution in the marketplace every day

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Be insatiably curious

Work Smart •

Act with urgency

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Remain responsive to change

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Have the courage to change course when needed

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Remain constructively discontent

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Work efficiently

Act Like Owners •

Be accountable for our actions and inactions

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Steward system assets and focus on building value

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Reward our people for taking risks and finding better ways to solve problems

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Learn from our outcomes -- what worked and what didn’t

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Inspire creativity, passion, optimism and fun

Brand Name: Coca-Cola Drink Type: Soft Drink Coca-Cola: Coca-Cola is the most popular and biggest-selling soft drink in history, as well as the best-known product in the world. Created in Atlanta, Georgia, by Dr. John S. Pemberton, Coca-Cola was first offered as a fountain beverage by mixing Coca-Cola syrup with carbonated water. Coca-Cola was introduced in 1886, patented in 1887, registered as a trademark in 1893 and by 1895 it was being sold in every state and territory in the United States. In 1899, The Coca-Cola Company began franchised bottling operations in the United States. Coca-Cola might owe its origins to the United States, but its popularity has made it truly universal. Today, you can find Coca-Cola in virtually every part of the world. Have some fun at MyCoke.com Available in the following flavors: Cola, Cola Green Tea, Cola Lemon, Cola Lemon Lime, Cola Lime, Cola Orange and Cola Raspberry. Available in the following locations: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau (Macao), Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mariana Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Congo, Republic of Ireland, Republic of Korea, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Maarteen, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia & Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Gambia, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks & Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, West BankGaza, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.