Coca-Cola brand beverages grew 4% by volume during the quarter worldwide, led by growth in China and Russia that reached 24% and 17% respectively.

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"There's an important conversation going on about obesity out there, and we want to be a part of the conversation, " Stuart Kronauge, general manager of sparkling beverages for Coca-Cola North America, told the Associated Press.

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Sparkling beverages, including Coca-Cola and Diet Coke, continue to see strong growth, the company said.

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Vitamin Water, owned by Coca-Cola, pays Underwood to endorse its beverages.

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Coca-Cola points out in the video it offers 180 low- and no-calorie beverages out of more than 650 beverage products.

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Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people ), pays Underwood to endorse its beverages.

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After advising Venezuela's 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.

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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.

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PepsiCo gave up the fight against Coca-Cola in South Africa with the collapse of New Age Beverages, in which it had a share, dealing another blow to PepsiCo's overseas ambitions.

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Coca-Cola says it sells more than 1.7 billion servings of beverages every day globally, making it the leader in soft drinks in the world, ahead of other major players like PepsiCo.

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The Coca-Cola Company holds as much as half of the domestic Chinese market for carbonated beverages, but the juice business is highly fragmented.

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Coca-Cola (58, KO) has embarked on a turnaround that just might work, says Mark Swartzberg, beverages analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.

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