The Coca-Cola Company facts for kids
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| Traded as | NYSE: KO Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Beverage |
| Founded | 1886 |
| Founder | Asa Griggs Candler |
| Headquarters |
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U.S.
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Muhtar Kent (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products | List of The Coca-Cola Company products |
| Revenue |  US $48.01 billion (2012) |
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Operating income
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US $10.84 billion (2012) |
| US $9.01 billion (2012) |
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| Total assets | US $86.17 billion (2012) |
| Total equity | US $32.79 billion (2012) |
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Number of employees
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146,200 (Dec 2011) |
| Subsidiaries | List of The Coca-Cola Company subsidiaries |
The Coca-Cola Company is a publicly-traded company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its stock symbol is KO. It is on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and makes up a large portion of the holdings of Berkshire Hathaway.
The company is most known for making the drink Coca-Cola, the most drank soft drink in the world. It also makes other soft drinks, including:
The company offers 500 different brands and sells more than a billion drinks each day. Most of this is sold in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan and the UK.
Besides soft drinks, the company also makes Minute Maid and Odwalla fruit juices, Powerade, and Dasani bottled water. At one time, the company owned Columbia Pictures, but they are now owned by Sony and also Rockstar energy drink now owned by PepsiCo.
Images for kids
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The Coca-Cola Company's Minute Maid group North America offices in Sugar Land Town Square, Sugar Land, Texas, United States
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Certificate of Purchase Class A Stock for 20 Shares of The Coca-Cola Company, issued February 20, 1929
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Houston Coca-Cola Bottling Company
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A Chevrolet Express van bearing the logo of The Coca-Cola Company.
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Coca-Cola Company's office building in Madrid (Spain)
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An ad in Berlin, Germany.
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Coca-Cola bottles as pollution in water
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See also
In Spanish: The Coca-Cola Company para niños
