Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened to ban Coca-Cola and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez recently urged people to drink locally-made fruit juice rather than drink Coca-Cola or Pepsi.
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Fizzy-drink giant Coca-Cola has launched an advert addressing obesity for the first time on television.
Among them three beverage-companies, soft drink-maker Coca-Cola and brewers Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller, and Heineken.
For all their cultural self-assertion, the French drink plenty of Coca-Cola and eat a lot of Big Macs.
According to the rumor, hosts supposedly warned customers not to drink any more Coca-Cola orange juice products.
We believe integrating the bottlers business into its own business and leveraging its strong brand image in carbonated soft drink market, Coca-Cola will be able to increase its revenues from national and international operations.
But in the 1980s, carbonated soft drinks overtook tap as the most popular drink, with Coca-Cola and PepsiCo putting their marketing muscle behind their colas with celebrity endorsements from the likes of pop star Michael Jackson and comedian Bill Cosby.
First news hit the markets that for the first time ever, Diet Coke had overtaken Pepsi as the second-most popular soft drink in the country, behind Coca-Cola.
The purpose was to meet with the owner of local soft drink Inca Kola, which Coca-Cola wanted to acquire.
BodyArmor was created in June 2011 by Lance Collins, who created FUZE Beverage and NOS Energy Drink (sold to the Coca-Cola Company in 2007).
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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.
Pepsi, the flagship brand of PepsiCo, is the second most popular soft drink brand worldwide and trails only Coca-Cola in terms of sales.
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But last week, 15 food and drink producers, including Heinz, Kellogg and Coca-Cola, sent a letter to Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
But while harried parents may love the videos, to suggest that it therefore means they're good for kids is like suggesting that Coca-Cola is a health drink because millions of customers love it.
When Coca-Cola wanted to experiment with a supposedly healthy green-tea-flavoured drink, it targeted young Japanese women first.
Vikas Kocchar, regional manager for public affairs and communications of Coca-Cola, says claims that the drink can be used as a pesticide have no scientific backing.
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So the success of Coca-Cola's new orange-juice drink, developed in China, is a rare triumph.
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Much as Coca-Cola's success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
We expect the namesake beverage Coca-Cola to gradually increase its market share in the international soft drink markets as the company continues to go deeper into the developing regions.
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An hour-long film spoof featured a pasty Buffett going one-on-one with LeBron James, the basketball superstar, in what was at bottom a sales pitch for Coca-Cola, one of Buffett's biggest holdings and his favorite drink.
Until recently a passive player in Coca-Cola's marketing efforts, 7-Eleven is changing the soft-drink game.
The most iconic example is the Coca-Cola Company's attempt to reformulate the world's most popular soft drink on April 23, 1985 - "a day that will live in marketing infamy", according to the company's website.
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 has said the video was not made in response to criticism of the soft drink industry, but is an effort to raise awareness.
But while harried parents may love the videos, to suggest that it therefore means they're good for kids is like suggesting that Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) is a health drink because millions of customers love it.
Warren Buffet, the unbelievably homespun billionaire and long-time Coca-Cola director and shareholder, has been a staunch critic of options accounting and called the soft drink maker's accounting change a "classy move, " adding that he would feel "far more comfortable" if other companies followed its lead.
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