Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

The result was an early version of Coca-Cola, although the coca ingredient ( cocaine ) was the main active ingredient when the company was acquired by Asa Candler.

In 1891, Asa Candler became the sole proprietor of Coca-Cola after purchasing the rights to the business.

As part of the agreement, the property was renamed Candler Field after its former owner, Coca-Cola tycoon and former Atlanta mayor Asa Candler.

In 1887, the Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta with Asa Candler as one of the partners.

Asa Griggs Candler ( December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929 ) was an American business tycoon who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola.

Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, the son of Ernest Woodruff, an Atlanta businessman who, among other things, was leader of the group of investors who bought The Coca-Cola Company from Asa Griggs Candler in 1919.

After the turn of the 20th century, Emory College received a generous monetary and land grant from Asa Griggs Candler, president of The Coca-Cola Company, and moved its operations to Druid Hills, closer to Atlanta.

Atlanta was chosen as the home of new Emory University after Asa Griggs Candler, president of The Coca-Cola Company, deeded the university 65 acres of land in Druid Hills, six miles from the city's downtown, and contributed $ 1 million to the school's endownment.

He was the son of Harris Henry Dobbs, and cousin of Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company.

John Thomas Lupton ( 1862 – 1933 ) was an American lawyer, industrialist and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola.

Moreover, Pemberton sold the rights to manufacture Coca-Cola a second time that year, to Asa Candler.

It is named after Coca-Cola magnate Asa Griggs Candler, who donated this land to the city in 1922.

* Callan also has links with Asa Griggs Candler's family and the Coca-Cola company.

As deliberations to choose the site were under way, Asa Candler ( owner at the time of Coca-Cola ) donated $ 1 million to make the transformation of Emory College into Emory University possible in 1915.

After Diet Rite cola advertised its 100 percent use of aspartame, and the manufacturer of NutraSweet ( then, G. D. Searle & Company ) warned that the NutraSweet trademark would not be made available to a blend of sweeteners, Coca-Cola switched the formula to 100 percent NutraSweet.

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The soft drink Irn-Bru is cited by its manufacturer A. G. Barr as Scotland's ' other ' national drink owing to its large market share in Scotland outselling major international brands such as Coca-Cola.

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

* 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke.

A Big Mac combo meal with French fries and Coca-Cola served at a McDonald's in Louisvile, Kentucky.

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

The Heritage Green building, an extensively remodeled Coca-Cola bottling plant, joined the neighboring Upcountry History Museum and the Greenville Children's Museum, all of which feature " the latest in museum technology.

* An alcoholic drink ( sometimes referred to as a Black Cow # 2 ) featuring Kahlúa, half-and-half, and Coca-Cola.

While STS-51-F's primary payload was the Spacelab-2 laboratory module, the payload which received the most publicity was the Carbonated Beverage Dispenser Evaluation, which was an experiment in which both Coca-Cola and Pepsi tried to make their carbonated drinks available to astronauts.

Coca-Cola | Coke and Pepsi cans flown aboard STS-51-F on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

In a heavily-publicised marketing experiment, astronauts aboard STS-51-F enjoyed carbonated beverages from specially-designed cans provided by competitors Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries.

The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world.

The bottlers then sell, distribute and merchandise Coca-Cola to retail stores and vending machines.

Such bottlers include Coca-Cola Enterprises, which is the largest single Coca-Cola bottler in North America and western Europe.

The Coca-Cola Company also sells concentrate for soda fountains to major restaurants and food service distributors.

The Coca-Cola Company has, on occasion, introduced other cola drinks under the Coke brand name.

The most common of these is Diet Coke, with others including Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola, Diet Coke Caffeine-Free, Coca-Cola Cherry, Coca-Cola Zero, Coca-Cola Vanilla, and special versions with lemon, lime or coffee.

Based on Interbrand's best global brand 2011, Coca-Cola was the world's most valuable brand.

Samuel Candler Dobbs, sales manager of Coca-Cola and later its president, took up the cause of truth in advertising in the wake of those judgements.

By 1895 Candler announced to shareholders that Coca-Cola was served in every state in the United States.

* The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, designed by Schultze & Weaver, opened in Atlanta, Georgia in 1924 at a cost of $ 6 million, it was organized by Coca-Cola heir William Candler, Holland Ball Judkins, and Bowman.

Candler was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1916 ( taking office in 1917 ) and ended his day-to-day management of the Coca-Cola Company.

Samuel Candler Dobbs was president and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company, from 1919 to 1922.

With Candler and Walker soon at odds with Charley Pemberton, his father announced that it was the rights to the Coca-Cola name but not the formula that he had conveyed to the son.

Candler decided by 1894 to focus on the name and formula, and abandoned the troubled corporation, starting, without its other principals, a new corporation, The Coca-Cola Company.