The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is a global beverage company with its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and was founded under the General Corporation Law of the state of Delaware. As a manufacturer, retailer, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups as well as alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, The Coca-Cola Company has a diverse range of business interests. Coca-Cola, the sweet beverage for which the business is best known, was developed in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton and introduced to the world in 1886. A stimulant effect was given by the combination of cocaine from coca leaves and caffeine from kola nuts, which was available at the time. Coca leaves and kola nuts were used in the production of the product at the time. This stimulating effect is the reason why the drink was marketed to the general public as a healthy "tonic," and the coca and kola plants are also the source of the names of the product and the business itself. For $2,300 (about $68,000 in 2021), Asa Griggs Candler purchased the recipe and brand in 1889 and formed The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1892.

A franchised distribution system has been in operation since 1889, according to the business. The majority of the company's output is syrup concentrate, which is subsequently sold to a variety of bottlers throughout the globe that have exclusive distribution areas. Coca-Cola Refreshments, the company's core bottler in North America, is owned by the corporation. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and is a component of the DJIA, as well as the S&P 500 and S&P 100 indexes. It is the Coca-Cola Company that is the world's leading generator of plastic trash.