Week of April 14, 2008:
"I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" had its origins on January 18, 1971, in a London fog. Bill Backer, creative director on the Coca-Cola account for the McCann-Erickson advertising agency, was flying to London to meet up with Billy Davis, the music director on the Coca-Cola account, to write radio commercials with two successful British songwriters, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, to be recorded by the New Seekers, a popular British singing group.

Week of April 7, 2008:
Q: Where is the best place to purchase your Coca-Cola collectibles?

A: Cola Corner!

Week of March 31, 2008:
The Coca-Cola Polar Bear made it's debut in 1993 and continues to delight both old and young alike today.

Week of March 24, 2008:
The name "Coca-Cola" was a suggestion by John Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Robinson. Frank Robinson also had great penmanship and later created the Coca-Cola script, by hand, that we all know today!

Week of March 17, 2008:
1976 - it was this year the 10 billionth gallon of "Coca-Cola" syrup was produced.

Week of March 10, 2008:
The Coca-Cola Company bottles more than 500 products around the globe, including "Fanta" "Sprite" "Diet Coke" and "Coca-Cola Classic"!

Week of March 3, 2008:
Who was the first company to give out coupons for a free item as an advertising technique? You guessed it: The Coca-Cola Company!

Week of February 25, 2008:
1988 - The Coca-Cola Company became the first independent operator in the Soviet Union.

Week of February 18, 2008:
1923 - The 6 bottle carton was introduced by Ernest Woodruff.

Week of February 11, 2008:
1899 - This year large scale bottling of Coca-Cola started, which has become known as Chandler's Great Achievement.

Week of February 4, 2008:
What was the first state to bottle Coca-Cola? (Mississippi).

Week of January 28, 2008:
2007 - Coca-Cola products are served more than 705 million times every day, in 195 countries!

Week of January 21, 2008:
2008 - 400 different brands are available around the globe. In 1886, there was only 1 flavor offered in 1 city in 1 country, in the world.

Week of January 14, 2008:
1886 - In this year, the company's first year, they averaged 9 Cokes a day!

Week of January 7, 2008:
Did you know: Coca-Cola owns the second-largest truck fleet in the world! (US Post Office owns the largest truck fleet).

Week of December 31, 2007 (Happy New Year):
Fact: Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means "To make mouth happy".

Week of December 24, 2007 (Merry Christmas):
1931 - Haddon Sundblom introduces his version of Santa Claus. Later to become The Coca-Cola Santa we know today.

Week of December 17, 2007:
1928 - Sales of bottled Coca-Cola surpassed fountain sales for the first time in the company's history.

Week of December 10, 2007:
1915 - The Root Glass Company created the first version of the Coca-Cola Contour Bottle. The bottle they created was to wide at the center, so it was slimmed to become what we know today as the Coca-Cola Contour Bottle.

Week of December 2, 2007:
1934 - Johnny Weissmuller, an Olympic champion swimmer, and Maureen O'Sullivan, a motion-pictgure star, appeared on a metal serving tray for Coca-Cola.

Week of November 26, 2007:
1952 - "The Big Beverage", the first Coca-Cola novel about Coca-Cola was written by William T. Campbell.

Week of November 19, 2007:
1950 - Coca-Cola starts advertising on the television. Currently, Coca-Cola is advertised on over 500 different television channels across the globe.

Week of November 12, 2007:
1919 - The Coca-Cola Company was sold to a group of investors for $25 million.

Week of November 5, 2007:
1943 - On June 29, an urgent cablegram arrived from General Dwight Eisenhower's Allied Headquarters in North Africa requesting 10 Coca-Cola bottling plants to serve American servicemen overseas.
Eventually, 64 plants were set up during WWII.

Week of October 29, 2007:
1927 - Coca-Cola was first advertised on the radio.

Week of October 22, 2007:
1894 - The first syrup plant outside of Atlanta was opened in Dallas.

Week of October 15, 2007:
1978 - The Coca-Cola Company introduced the 2 litre bottle and the company started using plastic to distribute their beverages.

Week of October 8, 2007:
Did you know?: The bottling plant at the highest elevation in the world is located in Bolivia, at 12,000 feet!

Week of October 1, 2007:
1940 - Coca-Cola is now bottled in 40 countries around the globe!

Week of September 24, 2007:
If all the Coca-Cola vending machines were stacked one on top of each other, the pile would be over 450 miles high.

Week of September 17, 2007:
1929 - Coca-Cola was made available through vending machines; also in this year, the bell glass was made available.

Week of September 10, 2007:
1960 - The 12 oz Coke can, that we still use today, was introduced.

Week of September 3, 2007:
1977 - Although The Coca-Cola Company started bottling and using the Contour Bottle in 1915, it wasn't until this year that the Contour Bottle was patented by The Coca-Cola Company.

Week of August 27, 2007:
1961 - Sprite was introduced by The Coca-Cola Company.

Week of August 20, 2007:
1917 - Coca-Cola and the Coca-Cola script become known as the world's most recognized trademark.

Week of August 13, 2007:
By 1983, The Coca-Cola Company had served over 1 trillion customers.

Week of August 6, 2007:
1995 - Coca-Cola was consumed in space for the third time in history and Diet Coke was consumed in space for the very first time aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Week of July 30, 2007:
In 1903, a revolution in soda fountain design took place with the front service fountain patented by Dr. Heisinger.

Week of July 23, 2007:
Even though Coca-Cola originated in the United States, Mexico and Iceland have the highest per capita consumption of Coca-Cola today.

Week of July 16, 2007:
Today, about every second, 7,000 Coca-Cola products are consumed!

Week of July 9, 2007:
1931 - The Coca-Cola Santa was introduced as a Christmas promotion by Haddon Sundblom.

Week of July 2, 2007:
1893 - In January, "Coca-Cola" was registered in the US Patent Office.

Week of June 25, 2007:
Fact: Coca-Cola translated in Chinese means, "To Make Mouth Happy".

Week of June 18, 2007:
Fact: The best selling, non-carbonated, soft drink in Japan is a product of The Coca-Cola Company named "Georgia", a coffee flavored beverage.

Week of June 11, 2007:
1979 - Coca-Cola moves its world headquarters to North Aveune in Atlanta. Fifteen hundred employees made the move to the building that was later named "The Tower".

Week of June 4, 2007:
Question: What were the first two countries outside the United States to bottle Coca-Cola?
Answer: Cuba and Panama.

Week of May 28, 2007:
1943 - On June 29, an urgent cablegram arrived from General Dwight Eisenhower's Allied Headquarters in North Africa, requesting 10 Coca-Cola bottling plants to serve American servicemen overseas. Eventually, 64 plants were set up during WWII.

Week of May 21, 2007:
If all the Coca-Cola ever produced were to erupt from "Old Faithful" at its normal rate of 14,000 gallons per hour, the geyser would flow continually for 1,577 years!

Week of May 14, 2007:
1925 - The Coca-Cola Company sells a record 6 million Cokes a day.

Week of May 7, 2007:
1906 - The first two countries outside the United States to bottle Coca-Cola were Cuba and Panama

Week of April 30, 2007:
1982 - Diet Coke was introduced in July.

Week of April 23, 2007:
1886 - Sales of Coca-Cola averaged nine drinks per day. That first year, Dr. Pemberton sold 25 gallons of syrup, shipped in bright red wooden kegs. Red has been a distinctive color associated with the No. 1 soft drink brand ever since.

Week of April 16, 2007:
1923 - The Coca-Cola Company was sold after the Prohibition Era to Ernest Woodruff for 25 million dollars. He gave Coca-Cola to his son, Robert Woodruff, who would be president for six decades.

Week of April 9, 2007:
May 1886 - Pharmacist John Pemberton concocted a caramel-colored syrup in a three-legged brass kettle in his backyard. He first "distributed" the new product by carrying Coca-Cola in a jug down the street to Jacobs Pharmacy. For five cents, consumers could enjoy a glass of Coca-Cola at the soda fountain. Whether by design or accident, carbonated water was teamed with the new syrup, producing a drink that was proclaimed "Delicious and Refreshing." Dr. Pemberton's partner and bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, suggested the name and penned, in the unique flowing script that is famous worldwide today.

Week of April 2, 2007:
In 1906 The first two courtries outside the United States to bottle Coca-Cola were Cuba and Panama.

Week of March 26, 2007:
In 1993 Coca-Cola exceeds 10 Billion cases sold worldwide.

Week of March 19, 2007:
In 1891 Atlanta entrepreneur Asa G. Candler had acquired complete ownership of the Coca-Cola business. Pemberton was forced to sell because he was in a state of poor health and was in debt. He had paid $76.96 for advertising, but he only made $50.00 in profits. Candler acquired the whole company for $2,300.

Week of March 12, 2007:
In 1886 Coca-Cola was founded by a pharmacist named John Pemberton.

Week of March 5, 2007:
On May 15, 1950, Coca-Cola became the first product ever to appear on the cover of Time Magazine. This issue also featured an in-depth article about The Coca-Cola Company.

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