America's image of New Yorkers combines swagger, style and an unwillingness to get pushed around. Humphrey Bogart once warned a Nazi commander in "Casablanca" that "there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade." Seventy years ago, movie audiences would have laughed in appreciation of the city's toughness.
Shares of the world's biggest beverage company -- and most powerful brand --didn't go flat as the rest of the market did when this economic recovery fizzled.
I just bought a home carbonator. Is there any danger to drinking carbonated water instead of still water? Some Web articles state that carbonated water does not flush toxins like still water -- that it causes kidney stones because it is harder to digest and that it leaches calcium from the bones.
The soda world is bubbling with the news that Diet Coke has surpassed Pepsi as the No. 2 carbonated soft drink in the U.S. (regular Coke still reigns). But what's been lost in much of the hoopla is that the industry overall is, well, flat.
Score one for the Coca-Cola Company.
First thing every morning, Ellen Talles starts her day by draining a supersize Styrofoam cup filled with Diet Coke and crushed ice. The 61-year-old from Boca Raton, Fla., drinks another Diet Coke in the car on the way to work and keeps a glass nearby "at all times" at her job as a salesclerk. By the end of the day she has put away about 2 liters.
On a Monday night earlier this month, the projection screen hanging on the wall of a bowling alley in Brooklyn's bar-heavy Williamsburg neighborhood was displaying neither strikes nor scores, but columns of the Twitter client TweetDeck.
Pepsi can have a strange effect on people. The company, that is, not the beverage. No sooner had PepsiCo president Indra Nooyi gotten word 18 months ago that she was to become the next CEO than she hopped on a plane to Cape Cod, where Mike White, her main challenger for the job, was vacationing. The two had worked together for years. Both had been CFOs and rising stars. Both loved music. When they'd been kicked out of a board meeting the previous month while their fates were being discussed, they went to the Jersey Boys musical on Broadway and sang along to all the Frankie Valli songs.
U.S. carbonated soft drinks sales are expected to fall 1 percent this year, and one industry expert says it's partly because Coke and Pepsi have put their legendary cola wars on ice.
Coca-Cola's announcement that its president and COO Muhtar Kent will succeed Neville Isdell as CEO on July 1 isn't exactly news. It is more like a rite of passage, a huge collective sigh of relief. It is the surest sign yet that Isdell's turnaround is complete and Coke is back on track. It is the first seamless, graceful, really hopeful transition the company has been able to pull off in four CEO handoffs - dating back to a decade ago when Roberto C. Goizueta died in October, 1997. More than anything else, though, this transition is also a painful reminder of just how long it takes to fix a screwed- up company.
People who drink one or more soft drinks a day have a more than 50 percent higher risk of developing the heart disease precursor metabolic syndrome than people who drink less than one soda a day, a new study has found. And it didn't matter if it was a regular soda or a diet soda.
Coca-Cola Co. posted a jump in its third-quarter profit and sales Wednesday, helped by strength in its overseas markets, although the company continues to suffer sluggish cola sales in its key North America market.
If you're searching for a villain in America's obesity epidemic, most nutritionists tell you to put one picture on the wanted poster: a cold, bubbly glass of soda pop.
In dollar value, the sponsorship deals for NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced this week might seem like nothing special for the world of sports.
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Game gets kids off the couch
School vending machines are stocked with fewer high-calorie soft drinks today because some states have banned the sale of sodas on campus and the beverage industry is phasing in healthier drinks, according to an industry report.
People who drank more than one diet soda each day developed the same risks for heart disease as those who downed sugary regular soda
People who drank more than one diet soda each day developed the same risks for heart disease as those who downed sugary regular soda
While Coca-Cola is enjoying a strong resurgence in demand for its brands overseas, the world's largest beverage maker is still struggling with soft drinks sales back at home.
For the first time in a long time, Coca-Cola is proving to consumers - and investors - that it's worthy of its status as leader of the nation's $105 billion soft drink industry.
Coca-Cola CEO Neville Isdell delivered a less than bubbly outlook for soda sales in the United States Tuesday, saying that he expects the weak sales trends to continue in 2007.
Coke and Pepsi both saw their share of the soda market fall in 2006 for the second straight year, led by weak sales of Coke Classic and regular Pepsi, an industry report said Thursday.
Lunchtime in Tehran's tony northern suburbs, and around the crowded tables at Nayeb restaurant, elegant Iranian women in Jackie O sunglasses and designer jeans pick at grilled Alborz trout and sala...
Lunchtime in Tehran's tony northern suburbs, and around the crowded tables at Nayeb restaurant, elegant Iranian women in Jackie O sunglasses and designer jeans pick at grilled Alborz trout and sala...
Coca-Cola plans to launch a new version of Diet Coke in 2007 that is fortified with vitamins and minerals, according to a report published Friday.
I always wanted to be a historian. Little did I know that combining that interest with my passion for soda would make our family business a success.
Nobody wants to be a laggard, of course, and there is much to be said for being the market leader. Nike, Wal-Mart and Exxon certainly don't wish they were anything else.
Pepsi is expected to launch a new brand of fruit-flavored diet colas this summer called "Jazz," a move that one industry expert says is intended to add "some excitement" to the company's cola offerings.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett professes to drink five Cherry Cokes a day and his company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns a whopping 8 percent of the Coca-Cola Company.
Pepsi beat Coke in December for the first time in their 108-year rivalry, surpassing its nemesis in market capitalization. The great irony of Pepsi's rise is this: It has never sold more soda than Coke, even today.
One evening this past November, Pepsi CEO Steve Reinemund laid out a smorgasbord of snacks for his board of directors to munch on. This was not gentlemanly hospitality; it was pure business. These snacks represented Pepsi's future: a line of products aimed at cashing in on consumers' continuing obsession with healthy food. If all goes well, the line will bring in billions for the company. According to one board member, the treats were "delightful." But more than just the future of Pepsi, this spread in many ways represents everything the company has done right for nearly a decade: finding new ways into people's stomachs--and wallets--and pulling off one of the great turnarounds in American business.
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Coca-Cola Co. on Thursday posted second-quarter profits that beat Wall Street estimates, spurred by strong volume growth in its international markets and a modest improvement in North America.
When Coca-Cola reports its second-quarter earnings Thursday, Wall Street will be watching for early signs of whether the company's big gamble on diet colas over its sugary flagship Coke brand is a winner.
After failing to find a niche in the soft drink market, Pepsico announced Thursday that they plan to dump the cola drink Pepsi Edge from its product line, according to a news report.
Coca-Cola Co. said Tuesday its net income fell in the first quarter, as the world's largest soft drink maker, is in the midst of restructuring its worldwide operations and revamping its marketing strategy, continued to struggle with weak North America sales.
The beverage aisle is about to get more crowded as Pepsi and Coca-Cola debut new diet colas.
Sugar isn't always sweet as both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo found out after seeing overall declines in their share of the U.S. carbonated soft drinks market last year, led by weak sales of Coke Classic and regular Pepsi.
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Pepsi has a drink for every occasion, whether it's trick-or-treating, sitting 'round the yule log or running for the border, offering two new holiday-themed soft drinks and a new Mountain Dew drink available only at Taco Bell.
Coca-Cola Co., the world's largest beverage company, posted a second-quarter profit Thursday that beat Wall Street estimates. But it fell short of sales expectations, citing weakness in its international markets.
It may be top dog in the cola wars, but Coca-Cola has been playing catch up on Wall Street for some time.
McDonald's Corp., the No .1 fast-food chain that's been on a mission to its revamp its image, said it will offer Coca-Cola's new low-carb "C2" cola in a limited number of its restaurants.
Coca-Cola's ad for the new C2 cola may be set to the Rolling Stones' classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want." But Coke's North American president doesn't seem to be buying that message when it comes to expectations for the low-carb, mid-calorie cola.
Coca-Cola Co. Monday unveiled C2, a soft drink with less than half the calories and carbohydrates of the original Coke, and an ad campaign pitched at followers of trendy Atkins-style diets.
Don't expect Cola-Cola shareholders to "relax with a Coke" when they gather for their annual meeting Wednesday.
Coca-Cola Co. said Monday it will launch a soft-drink with half the carbohydrates of traditional colas this summer as the world's largest soft-drink firm looks to capitalize on the low-carb diet craze.
At the Cooper clinic, a health-and-fitness boot camp in Dallas, Ken Cooper and Steve Reinemund are collaborating to change American diets. On a basic point, though, the two men are at odds. Dr. Co...
Coca-Cola Co. made two moves this week to boost sagging soda sales in the United States.
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