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[[File:Coca-Cola logo.svg|Coca-Cola logo|thumb]] | |||
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[[File:Commercial. At the Coca Cola Plant BAnQ P48S1P06539.jpg|thumb|Coca-Cola bottling factory. January 8, 1941, [[Montreal]], [[Canada]].]] | |||
'''Coca-Cola''' is a [[carbonated]], sweetened [[soft drink]] and is the world's best-selling drink. A popular [[wikt:nickname|nickname]] for Coca-Cola is Coke. [[The Coca-Cola Company]] claims that the beverage is sold in more than 200 countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualvender.coca-cola.com/ft/index.jsp|title=Brand Fact Sheet|date=December 1, 2008|publisher=Coca-Cola official website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050608011029/http://www.virtualvender.coca-cola.com/ft/index.jsp|archive-date=June 8, 2005}}</ref> Coca-Cola was first made in [[Columbus, Georgia]].The company's headquarters are in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. Coca-Cola's main rival is [[Pepsi]] because of the similar taste of their main product. Coca-Cola has 7 cubes of sugar, 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 are [[American Idol]], [[ITunes|Apple iTunes]], [[Black Entertainment Television|BET Network]], [[NASCAR]], [[National Basketball Association|NBA]], [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]]<nowiki/>marvel and the [[Olympic Games]]. After their products were put back on sale in [[Myanmar]] in 2012, the only countries that Coca-Cola can not be bought officially are [[Cuba]] and [[North Korea]], due to trade bans with the US.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19550067|title=In which countries is Coca-Cola not sold?|date=September 11, 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-06-19|language=en-GB}}</ref> | |||
== History == | |||
Coca-Cola was first made in the 1800s by John 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 in [[Columbus, Georgia]]. It was called Pemberton's French Wine Coca at first, and was sold as a medicine to help cure colds and give people more energy. The drink used to be sold at [[soda fountains]] in the United States. It was also created to stop addictions to morphine. | |||
Coca-Cola was first sold in [[bottle]]s in [[Atlanta]] on March 12, 1894 with actual cocaine content. It was first sold in [[can]]s in 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. | |||
<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://writinkservices.com/coca-cola-company-strategic-choices |title=Coca-Cola Company: Strategic Choices |date=August 17, 2018 |access-date=2019-01-06 |archive-date=2019-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126012230/https://writinkservices.com/coca-cola-company-strategic-choices |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
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 and [[kola fruit]]s that 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/[[coca]] leaf reportedly caused cases of hallucinations. Coca has not been used in the formula since 1903. | |||
== Coca-Cola's advertising == | |||
Coca-Cola was the first ever [[sponsor]] of the [[Olympic Games]]. This was for the 1928 Olympic Games in [[Amsterdam]]. | |||
* 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. | |||
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== Other products == | |||
[[File:Coca-Cola Glas mit Eis.jpg|right|thumb|160px|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-Cola]] museum of Coke history. | |||
== References == | |||
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