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Coca-Cola 'recipe' finds teen buyer -- at $15 million

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 15:15
What could be a World War II era recipe for Coca-Cola's secret formula found a buyer Wednesday on eBay -- a 15-year-old who now has three days to come up with $15 million to pay for it. Georgia antiques dealer Cliff Kluge listed the yellowing typewritten document -- found among papers at a Tennessee estate sale -- with an opening bid of $5 million and a buy-it-now price of $15 million as a publicity stunt.

Coca-Cola 'recipe' finds teen buyer -- at $15 million

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 15:00
What could be a World War II era recipe for Coca-Cola's secret formula found a buyer Wednesday on eBay -- a 15-year-old who now has three days to come up with $15 million to pay for it. Georgia antiques dealer Cliff Kluge listed the yellowing typewritten document -- found among papers at a Tennessee estate sale -- with an opening bid of $5 million and a buy-it-now price of $15 million as a publicity stunt.

Coca-Cola 'recipe' finds teen buyer -- at $15 million

Agence France-PresseMay 15, 2013 20:45
What could be a World War II era recipe for Coca-Cola's secret formula found a buyer Wednesday on eBay -- a 15-year-old who now has three days to come up with $15 million to pay for it. Georgia antiques dealer Cliff Kluge listed the yellowing typewritten document -- found among papers at a Tennessee estate sale -- with an opening bid of $5 million and a buy-it-now price of $15 million as a publicity stunt.

Coca-Cola to lay off 750 workers in US

March 21, 2013 13:33
US soft drinks giant Coca-Cola will cut 750 jobs in the United States as part of a restructuring of its North America operations, a company spokesman said Thursday. The layoffs represent one percent of the company's workforce in North America. About a quarter of the jobs will be eliminated in the company's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The layoffs came as world's largest beverage company continues to integrate the North American bottling operations it acquired from Coca-Cola Enterprises in 2010.

UPDATE 1-Coca-Cola says did not intend Super Bowl ad to be derogatory

January 31, 2013 16:46
By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co held what it called a "productive conversation" with an Arab-American group that labeled the firm's Super Bowl ad racist, but will not change the commercial featuring an Arab walking through a desert with a camel. "We did express regret that the ad had been misunderstood," Coca-Cola spokeswoman Lauren Thompson said in an email. "We are very concerned by these allegations and in no way is our ad meant to be derogatory to any group."

Coca-Cola kickstarts Arctic campaign with WWF donation

January 17, 2013 12:00
* Europe-wide campaign to help protect polar bears * Arctic summer ice thawed to record low last year LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Coca-Cola will give 3 million euros ($4 million) to conservation group WWF over the next three years to help kickstart a campaign to protect the Arctic from the impacts of global warming, the world's biggest soft-drinks maker said.
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