Together they opened Coca-Cola Bottlers Uzbekistan (CCBU), owned in equal parts by Coke's export subsidiary, Coca-Cola Export Corp.
Coca-Cola recently announced plans to launch Coca-Cola Music, a new global marketing tactic aimed at teens, beginning March 22.
In the nearly 30 years since then, Coca-Cola has added Coca-Cola Zero, vitamin water, and bottled water to its portfolio.
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President Morales said a celebration would be held on Monday with coca farmers to mark what Bolivian coca growers called "a great achievement".
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Coca-Cola 's (nyse: KO - news - people ) Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, for example, gives away 250 scholarships to high-school seniors every year.
Worse, the price of coffee, which is grown in similar places to coca, has slumped because of world overproduction, which may induce farmers to switch to coca.
Mr Morales's demand for more coca in the Chapare region does not resonate in the parts of the Yungas where coca is grown legally for traditional use.
Starting next year, the company's business will be built around three units: Coca-Cola Americas, Coca-Cola International and a bottling division, which will oversee its bottling operations outside North America.
When a brand runs off the identity track a bit, as Coca-Cola did back around 2005, chances are it has lost this focus, as Coca-Cola did back around 2005.
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But it has still to convince Bolivians that coca growing and coca-leaf consumption are not just part of their way of life but a crucial element in international crime.
White Coca-Cola bottleWhile Coca-Cola has worked on conservation projects before, the company has never gone so far as to change its iconic red can to help draw awareness to a campaign.
Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, who doubles as the leader of the coca-growers' union, insists that he is opposed to cocaine, though not to coca (which is traditionally chewed by Andean Indians).
Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's chief, complied readily having already promised shortly after Pearl Harbor to supply every man in uniform with a five-cent bottle of Coca-Cola, no matter the cost to the company.
U.S. government statistics would show that a significant reduction in leftover coca (total cultivation minus eradicated coca) has been observed from peak 2001 levels of 1, 698 square kilometers to an estimated 1, 140 square kilometers in 2004.
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Peru and Bolivia, where coca is legal and Indians have chewed it for centuries, were the primary source of coca leaves for a cocaine boom in the early 1980s that spawned kingpins like Colombia's Pablo Escobar.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales, who is also the head of Bolivia's coca growing union, had campaigned hard to get the UN to reverse what he called a "historic wrong" and lift its longstanding ban on the chewing of coca leaves.
BBC: Bolivia achieves coca-chewing victory at United Nations
' US officials say the legally sanctioned coca leaf quota here already satisfies traditional uses and that more coca production will only mean more cocaine flowing out of Bolivia, but Morales says he's against cocaine and wants to talk with Washington about it.
But by the time Coca-Cola was finished carpet-bombing the planet with its vision of Santa Claus, there was no doubt what Santa Claus looked like: He looked like Haddon Sundbloom, who used himself as a model for many of his later Coca-Cola paintings.
In a bit of spin, Coca-Cola eventually claimed that both formulas actually increased their share of the cola market, and some conspiracy theorists even insinuated that this was actually a brilliant, secret strategy intended to regain loyalty of Coca Cola drinks that have been switching to Pepsi.
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Coca-Cola reported a jump in revenue and profit for its first quarter, but at a slower pace than analysts expected, as factors like the earthquake in Japan and marketing expenses associated with its acquisition of the North American bottling operations of Coca-Cola Enterprises offset the results.
After advising the Cisneros family on switching their Pepsi-bottling assets to Coca-Cola in 1996 and then selling them to Panamerican Beverages, a large Latin American Coke bottler, McCausland asked Oswaldo Cisneros to fly to Lima, Peru, to meet with the owner of local soft drink Inca Kola, which Coca-Cola wanted to acquire.
When Coca-Cola began looking for a suitable Chinese version of its name after launching the drink there in 1927, it found that some local shopkeepers had produced homemade signs using Chinese characters to replicate the sound of the words "Coca-Cola, " without noticing that the characters in combination could be read as "female horse fastened with wax" or "bite the wax tadpole, " according to Coca-Cola researchers.
Coca-Cola , Intel and JPMorgan Chase all announced quarterly earnings that topped Street predictions.
Kirven and Antonio have had a long-term relationship with COCA, teaching young dancers at least once a year.
Sparkling beverages, including Coca-Cola and Diet Coke, continue to see strong growth, the company said.
Black is a member of the boards of IBM, the Coca-Cola Company and the Advertising Council.
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