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Coca-Cola
| January 1, 1886 |
John Stith "Doc" Pemberton, Frank Robinson, David Doe and Edward Holland formed the Pemberton Chemical Company. Robinson and Doe were selling printed advertising, Holland owned land, which he deeded to the company. |
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John Stith (Styth) Pemberton |
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| May 8, 1886 |
First Coca-Cola served in Jacob's Pharmacy, Atlanta
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John Stith (Styth) Pemberton |
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| May 29, 1886 |
An ad appears for Coca-Cola in the Atlanta Journal. This is the earliest known ad for the soft drink
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John Stith (Styth) Pemberton |
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| June 28, 1887 |
The name Coca-Cola is trademarked by John S. Pemberton. He registered it in his name, not the name of the Pemberton Chemical Company.
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John Stith (Styth) Pemberton |
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| April 14, 1891 |
Asa Chandler completes his purchase of Coca-Cola
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| January 29, 1892 |
Coca-Cola is incorporated.
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| January 31, 1893 |
Coca-Cola patented
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| July 21, 1899 |
Bejamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, two Chattanooga (History of Chattanooga, Tennessee) businessmen, receive approval on their plan to bottle Coca-Cola
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| September 12, 1919 |
The Trust Company of Georgia purchases Coca-Cola from Asa Chandler, who continues to hold a significant amount of the stock
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| April 28, 1923 |
Earnest Woodruff becomes president of Coca-Cola
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| November 18, 1931 |
Roberto Crispulo Goizueta born, Havana, Cuba
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| March 24, 1937 |
Coca-Cola received a design patent for the contour bottle so closely associated with the company's product
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| April 12, 1960 |
Coca-Cola received a trademark on the contour bottle
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| February 1, 1961 |
Sprite, a lemon-lime competitor of 7-Up, is introduced by Coca-Cola
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| October 23, 1971 |
Coca-Cola introduces "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," one of its best remembered campaigns
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| May 11, 1976 |
Coke Adds Life (to everything nice) campaign begins
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| June 13, 1979 |
Have a Coke and a Smile ad campaign starts
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| June 21, 1982 |
Coca-Cola buys Columbia Pictures from CBS
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| July 9, 1982 |
Diet Coke is introduced
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| April 23, 1985 |
New Coke is introduced. The controversy is immediate and wide-spread, and Coca-Cola does not expect the frenzied rejection of its "new" offering.
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| July 10, 1985 |
Classic Coke returns, the pre-"New Coke" Coke, with a new name
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| November 1, 1989 |
Coca-Cola sells Columbia Pictures to Sony
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| August 21, 1990 |
The World of Coke opens near Underground Atlanta |
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| October 18, 1997 |
Roberto Goizueta, Chairman of the board and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company dies from cancer at Atlanta's Emory Hospital
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| February 17, 2000 |
Doug Daft elected Chairman and CEO of Coca-cola
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| May 6, 2003 |
Coke re-introduces the "neon spectacular" to Peachtree Street in Atlanta. For 32 years the neon spectacular hung at Peachtree and Pryor Streets in downtown, next to Margaret Mitchell Park. When the city turned the park into a ball field, Coke removed the sign.
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| May 4, 2004 |
Coca-Cola named Neville Isdell, a 60-year-old former company insider, as its chairman and chief executive officer, ending a three-month search at the world's largest soft drink maker. |
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| April 7, 2007 |
The World of Coca-Cola near Underground Atlanta closes |
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| May 27, 2007 |
The World of Coca-Cola near Centennial Park opens. |
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Jacob's Pharmacy, in Atlanta on Peachtree Street, was where Dr. John S. Pemberton sold the first Coca-Cola, named by accountant Frank Robinson. The drink was marketed as being medicinal until 1905. It contained the extracts of coca leaves from South America and kola nuts from Africa, hence the name Coca-Cola. Coke's fame spread quickly. By 1900 Asa Chandler, who brought the company from Dr. Pemberton in 1888, had spread across the United States and into Canada. During this time period bottling began. In 1899 Chattanooga businessmen Joseph B. Whitehead and Benjamin Thomas conceived the idea of building a company around bottling Coca-Cola. They purchased the rights to bottle the drink and sell it throughout most of the United States. Information on the Original World of Coca-Cola, Atlanta, Georgia
New World of Coca-Cola
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