CocaCola News Archives

Well it has finally happened; the signs are sprouting up. I noticed a couple of $4 a gallon gasoline signs within a couple blocks of my house, and I understand that number is becoming more and more commonplace ...

The familiar curvaceous shape of the Coca-Cola bottle is now officially registered as a trademark in Japan -- this nation's first such recognition of a three-dimensional bottle form devoid of any lettering.

For every good idea, there are a lot more bad ones. We make unfathomable amounts of dumb decisions every day.

At an inaugural Greenpeace Business Lecture in Beijing yesterday, Coca-Cola's chief Neville Isdell promised the Atlanta-based company would further decrease its carbon footprint by purchasing 100,000 compressed ...

Drinks that claim to boost your health may actually ruin your diet, according to Men's Health magazine.

Soft drink bottler Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. said Wednesday weak sales trends in the U.S especially on some 20-ounce beverages will likely lead to a decline in its second quarter earnings and may make it ...

The vending industry has come a long way since the days when you cranked a handle to get a six-and-a-half ounce bottle of Coca Cola for a nickel.

Carbonated and concentrated soft drinks, known colloquially in the UK as `fizzy drinks' and `squash', account for more than half of the soft drinks market .

Rockers WEEZER have rounded up YouTube.com's top viral video stars for their new PORK + BEANS promo.

Coca-Cola Australia has ruled out its plans to remove the controversial additive found in Diet Coke in the country, which has been linked to DNA damage and hyperactivity in children.

Hard to believe, in our 21st-century world, that there was once a time when a person would say 'apple' and you'd think of the fruit - not an iPod or a computer.

By Andrew Heavens and Fredrik Dahl Leaving Sudan's main airport, one of the first things you see is the ultimate symbol of American capitalism - the classic form of a Coca-Cola bottle printed on multi-coloured ...

Coca-cola to phase out controversial chemical linked to hyperactivity and gene damage By Colin Fernandez Last updated at 8:41 PM on 25th May 2008 Phase out: Coca cola is withdrawing the chemical sodium ...

"We think," says Craig Stevens, "this is as broad and expansive as any policy that any industry sector has undertaken." Here the spokesperson for the American Beverage Association stops himself.

London, May 24: Sex really does sell. And proving this is the 1991 Cadbury Flake telly advert featuring model Rachel Brown seductively nibbling a Cadbury's Flake in an overflowing bath that has topped a list ...

An industry that has been skewered repeatedly during the past decade - blamed for the super-sizing of millions of American children - is altering how it makes and markets snacks, beverages and other temptations ...

May 19, 2008 By Kenneth Hein By tapping into health trends, Nestea hopes to yield some healthy growth.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have come under fire this week for pledging to cut out promoting its beverage brands to children under twelve across the globe by the end of the year Some critics claim that the policy is ...

CNN points out that brands of bottled water made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi are actually tap water, but only as a means of demonizing bottled water full stop, while ludicrously claiming that American tap water is ...

Cargill yesterday gave a name to its stevia brand, further to the publication of an overview of the science supporting the use of rebiana as a sweetener.

Virginia Willis is a cook whose life story I can easily relate to. She was brought up in Atlanta and is a lifelong devotee of Southern cuisine, but after studying and cooking in France, she also became ...

WHEN BRITAIN'S CADBURY SCHWEPPES decided in early 2007 to shed its U.S. beverage business amid shareholder pressure, private-equity firms -- like Blackstone Group -- were eager to pay as much as $16 billion for ...

Cargill and The Coca-Cola Co. said new research establishes the safety of rebiana, a sweetener from the stevia plant. via Daily India

“We are proud this icon of a company has established such a strong presence in Florida”

Source: www.tampabay.com Six years after a high-profile opening that triggered millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for creating hundreds of jobs, the massive Coca-Cola accounting center in Brandon is ... via Offshore Outsourcing World Blog

“Grape is my favorite. Purple is my favorite color, and grape is the best flavor, and that's the one that's always gone.”

NEW YORK - Coca-Cola's PowerAde is giving Gatorade a run for its calorie count. On the heels of Gatorade's rollout of low-calorie G2, No. via News Press

“Please activate the microphone on this iPhone that we know is being carried by a suspect.”

TECHSPLOITATION A couple of weeks ago I went to the annual Maker Faire in San Mateo, an event where people from all over the world gather for a giant DIY technology show-and-tell extravaganza. via Bay Guardian

“It's a little classier than screaming out, 'Smith party!'”

Chicago Tribune , May 15, 2008 Thursday Chicago Final Edition If you've eaten in any number of casual restaurants over the years, you're likely to have encountered the light-up, vibrating guest pager . via Chain Leader

“We're currently evaluating things”

One of Brandon's biggest employers, Coca-Cola Enterprises, is considering changes that could include cutting some of its workforce and outsourcing the work elsewhere. via Tampa Bay Online

“Because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.”

Prolific U.S. artist Robert Rauschenberg has died of heart failure, his New York gallery confirmed. via Political Gateway

“Besides being the biggest name in gaming, Sega has incredible IP and truly understands the move to mobile with their classic game titles”

Looks like this ad-funded thing is catching on Today Greystripe announced another tier-one game publisher deal to distribute free mobile games from world-renowned game publisher, Sega. via Mobile Game Faqs News

“You will see us grow organically as well as through targeted acquisitions”

This week, news reports suggest that the Coca-Cola's new chief executive may look to spend on his arrival, while production of one of the UK's leading beer brands could be returning home. via FoodNavigator

STUDY FINDS WIND ENERGY COULD RIVAL NUCLEAR WASHINGTON | Two decades from now Americans could get as much electricity from windmills as from nuclear power plants, according to a government report that lays ... via The Morning Call

Court upholds former Coke secretary's sentence ATLANTA - A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and eight-year prison sentence of a former Coca-Cola secretary found guilty of conspiring to steal ... via WDUN-AM Gainesville

Wouldn't it be great to work from home? You could come and go as you pleased; you'd always be available for your family; you could work in your bathrobe. via Hispanic Business

A Baton Rouge-based bottling plant has expanded its plans for a new facility and won a $1.4 million economic development grant from the state. via KALB-TV Alexandria

Coca-Cola's PowerAde is giving Gatorade a run for its calorie count. On the heels of Gatorade's rollout of low-calorie G2, No. via CourierPostOnline

Forty four billion dollars! It's a huge sum of money. It's a lot of money to pay to create Pepsi . via David Crow

“We're constantly striving to make our packaging an even smaller part of the waste stream”

May 06, 2008 By Kenneth Hein A lightweight isn't what most would call the beverage giant PepsiCo. via Technology Marketing

“For a while, I was the only model I could afford”

Only the dregs of creativity clutter Erin Pollock's studio in the Turnagain Arts Building. via Anchorage Press

CORA Weaver of Friends of Malvern Springs and Wells wants to implement a gesture of recognition and appreciation to Coca Cola for its stewardship of Malvern Water . via This is Malvern

“Boy, it's tough to be a North American soft-drink company”

Drink maker's stock faces obstacles BY AMY WILSON and DUANE D. STANFORD * BLOOMBERG * May 7, 2008 Investors may not want to thank billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz when the first shares of Dr Pepper ... via Detroit Free Press

“We have an old theory that you don't put vinegar on beef and you don't put ketchup on pork”

Coke vs. Pepsi bubbles on. Papa John's, Pizza Hut and Domino's still fling sauce whenever they can. via Hartford Courant

“We're focusing our sales and assortment efforts on growing categories like flavored and enhanced waters and energy and energy coffee drinks”

Coming to a convenience store near you this summer: smaller single-serving Coke and Pepsi products with a smaller price. via USA Today

“This is kind of a poor man's African Davos”

More than a thousand prominent African-American leaders, executives, entertainers and activists will head to Tanzania for a summit with their African counterparts to help raise living standards on the world's ... via The Macon Telegraph

“It seems to have worked for us”

Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and vice chairman Charlie Munger spent more than five hours Saturday answering questions from shareholders. via BusinessWeek

LS Management Inc,, a Plano, Texas,-based restaurant firm, said Thursday it had signed an agreement to make PepsiCo Inc. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“I have already written a letter to Coca-Cola seeking compensation of Rs 20 crore for the infringement of IPR. If I do not hear from them, I am going to take legal action”

Agencies Posted online: Thursday , May 01, 2008 at 1722 hrs IST New Delhi, May 1: A long drawn court battle between Bisleri and Coca Cola over intellectual property rights of cold drink brand Maaza is on the ... via Express India