The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company

Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: KO Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component
Founded	1886 (1886)
Headquarters	Coca-Cola headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia
Key people	Muhtar Kent (Chairman & CEO)
Industry	Beverage
Products	List of The Coca-Cola Company products
Revenue	US$48.01 billion (2012)<ref name="Coca-Cola-Company-Feb-2013-8-K"> Coca-Cola Company, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Feb 12, 2013(link). {{{website}}}. secdatabase.com. </ref>
Operating income	US$10.84 billion (2012)<ref name="Coca-Cola-Company-Feb-2013-8-K"/>
Net income	US$9.01 billion (2012)<ref name="Coca-Cola-Company-Feb-2013-8-K"/>
Assets	US$86.17 billion (2012)<ref name="Coca-Cola-Company-Feb-2013-8-K"/>
Equity	US$32.79 billion (2012)<ref name="Coca-Cola-Company-Feb-2013-8-K"/>
Employees	146,200 (Dec 2011)<ref name="Coca-Cola-Company-Feb-2012-10-K"> Coca-Cola Company, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Feb 23, 2012(link). {{{website}}}. secdatabase.com. </ref>

Coca Cola

The Coca-Cola Company is a publicly-traded company headquarted in Atlanta, Georgia. Its stock symbol is KO. It is on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and makes up a large portion of the holdings of Berkshire Hathaway.

The company is most known for making the drink Coca-Cola, the most drank soft drink in the world. It also makes other soft drinks, including:

• Barq's
• Diet Coke
• Coca-Cola Cherry (Cherry Coke)
• Fanta
• Sprite
• Tab
• Mr. Pibb
• Mello Yellow
• Vault

The company offers 500 different brands and sells more than a billion drinks each day. Most of this is sold in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan and the UK.

Besides soft drinks, the company also makes Minute Maid and Odwalla fruit juices, Powerade, and Dasani bottled water. At one time, the company owned Columbia Pictures, but they are now owned by Sony and also Rockstar energy drink now owned by PepsiCo.

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