Today, Diet Coke and Coke Zero make up 41% of Coke's North American soda sales, up from 32% a decade ago.
At the end of the game, Coke followed up with a final commercial that showed the ending that won the most votes.
Nine million stores sell Coke, serving up some 1.2 billion servings a day around the world.
If you think you can earn a lot more than 26% to 29% on your money, you should probably be clamoring for Coke to significantly up its dividend payout.
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The judges drink from Coke cups, and contestants are interviewed in a "red room" done up in Coke's signature color.
Coke has also stepped up marketing, advertising and sponsorship, hoping to appeal directly to consumers.
Spinning off its snacks businesses would allow Pepsi to become more nimble and concentrate on catching up with Coke.
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Sadly, however, despite all these innovative devices, and despite the fact that water is so important to our health, I don't think I'll ever actually give up on Diet Coke.
Perhaps now that they've extinguished the fires and have made significant management changes, they might find some solace that they'll be butting up next to Coke again very soon--when Diet Coke knocks down Coke, too.
Keith Lasley then joined Ruddy on the bench after pulling up, with Giles Coke coming on to replace him.
Much of Mr Schwartz's time is taken up with working out how Coke should be organised for innovation.
Four years ago, a homecare worker named Evelyn Coke took her case all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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The Micky Ds always have friendly natives to serve up a double cheeseburger and Coke, but I have never encountered a McDonald's greeter.
Frick made his money turning coal into coke for making steel, later hooking up with Carnegie to form what would become U.S. Steel.
Kamholz, who worked for Tonawanda Coke for 30 years, also could receive up to 75 years in prison.
Food, drink, and tobacco saw a 7% quarterly rise while chemicals, coke, refined petrol and nuclear fuel went up 9%.
Armed with hourly data from its 5, 300 U.S. cash registers and close ties to its own roster of independent suppliers, 7-Eleven can come up with new products faster than Coke--and market-test them in the real world, instead of with polls and focus groups.
The analogy that somebody used to me was it is -- we are trying to measure, 5, 000 feet below the surface, the amount of material that is coming up if you were to shake a Coke can.
You can choose Coke with zero calories, and you don't have to line up at the DMV to renew your license plates.
Clumsy fliers spilling Diet Coke and coffee on plane floors and seats, causing "gunked-up" seat-locking mechanisms, hardly seem to constitute a root cause.
It did so again on May 4th, when Mr Keough announced that his long search to find a new chairman and chief executive had finally ended in an invitation to Neville Isdell, a Coke veteran of 35 years, to come out of retirement and take up the reins.
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When Coke left the country in the late 1970s, the Jaipurias switched to bottling Thums Up, a local brand.
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Coke will likely have a large presence in commercials, and fans will surely stock up on the sweet bubbly for their parties.
It went back to the original idea on which its mega-brand had been built: Coke Brings Joy and concentrated all its effort, company-wide, on coming up with innovative ways to give it fresh life.
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Since I have learned the hard way that a diet Coke gulped on the sly the final day of your stay will almost surely show up on your bill, I have always wondered about the robe scenario.
With points racked up through Reimagine, recyclers can donate funds to local schools through the My Coke Rewards Program or enter to win a sweepstakes.
Another ad, which will air later this week, features activities that add up to burning off the "140 happy calories" in a can of Coke.
The description of Magatte Wade fails to mention the reason she founded Adina: The hibiscus beverage she grew up with, the traditional hospitality beverage of Senegal, was being replaced by Coke and Fanta.
In a grubby T shirt, with a long ponytail and Coke-bottle glasses, Arnold, 51, looks like the nerdy kid who never grew up.
While the unofficial national drink of Coke and Fernet (a bitter, aromatic spirit) is not exactly complicated, many bars are stepping up their offerings.
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