The Coca-Cola Company: American multinational beverage corporation
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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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| US $10.84 billion (2012) | |
| US $9.01 billion (2012) | |
| Total assets | US $86.17 billion (2012) |
| Total equity | US $32.79 billion (2012) |
Number of employees | 146,200 (Dec 2011) |
| 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:
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.
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