CNN's Kyung Lah reports on child labor in sugar harvesting in the Philippines.
Coca-Cola, maker of Minute Maid and Simply Orange, said Thursday that it was the company that originally alerted U.S. regulators to the issues surrounding Brazilian orange juice after it found a fungicide in some of its products.
CNN's Monita Rajpal was tasked with making an ad. Here's her final product.
On Tuesday, all eyes will be on the Coca-Cola Company as the world's largest soft drink maker reports its first quarter earnings. Though analysts are predicting solid year-over-year gains, all is not sweet for the Atlanta-based soda company, as the weak job market is likely to weigh on its top and bottom lines.
Happy Presidents' Day! Even if you have to work (like I do), the best part of this holiday is that the stock market is closed. And after last week, we all need a break.
The Coca-Cola Co., the world's biggest beverage company, moved to expand its operations in the fast-growing Chinese market Wednesday with a $2.5 billion bid for major juicemaker China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd
Hurdler Liu Xiang's surprise departure from the Olympics was a blow to advertisers including Coca Cola and Nike that made the 25-year-old hurdler a star of campaigns aimed at Chinese consumers
Fortune: Fixing farmingupdated: Thu May 22 2008 06:02:00
Backyard vegetable gardens are fine. So are organics, slow food and locavores - people who eat produce grown nearby. But solutions to the global food crisis will come from big business, genetically engineered crops and large-scale farms.
To save the planet, we've been told to stop burning coal, ditch our gas-guzzlers and switch our light bulbs to energy-efficient CFLs. Here's something else to worry about - the vending machine down the hall.
The Coca-Cola Company said Tuesday it will buy a 40% stake in Honest Tea, a 10-year-old organic bottled tea upstart that grew its sales 70% last year.
Coca-Cola Co. is close to making an investment in up-and-coming soft drink maker Honest Tea for an undisclosed amount, according to a published report.
Stocks surged at Wednesday's open after the Federal Reserve announced a coordinated global effort to combat the credit crunch.
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.
CNN's Andrew Stevens talks with Neville Isdell about his decision to take on the CEO at the Coca-Cola company.
The Coca-Cola Company will help build a $45 million plastics recycling plant in South Carolina and has set a goal of having every bottle it sells in the United States recycled or reused.
Two former Coca-Cola employees were sentenced Wednesday to serve federal prison terms for conspiring to steal and sell trade secrets to rival Pepsi.
Two former Coca-Cola employees were sentenced Wednesday to serve federal prison terms for conspiring to steal and sell trade secrets to rival Pepsi.
Recently, I stopped by my neighborhood Exxon station to conduct a price test. A 20-ounce bottle of Aquafina water cost $1.57, including tax. A 20-ounce bottle of Pepsi also cost $1.57. Regular gas sold for $3.05 a gallon.
The next user to download a song from a peer-to-peer file-sharing service like LimeWire could be in for a surprise. Not a recording industry lawsuit, but a pop-up asking him to look at an ad--eithe...
The next user to download a song from a peer-to-peer file-sharing service like LimeWire could be in for a surprise. Not a recording industry lawsuit, but a pop-up asking him to look at an ad--either text or video--in return for a free and legal copy of the music.
The Dow jumped Tuesday afternoon, boosted by strong earnings from components Coca Cola and Johnson & Johnson, but the broader market struggled amid mixed economic news and higher oil prices.
CNNMoney: Dow jumps on earningsupdated: Tue Apr 17 2007 10:13:00
The Dow surged and the broader market was mixed Tuesday morning as investors welcomed upbeat earnings from Coca Cola and Johnson & Johnson, but held back amid some mixed economic news and higher oil prices.
Something less sweet and decidedly more bitter than fizzy soft drinks is bubbling at Coca-Cola Enterprises, the biggest bottler of Coca-Cola beverages.
Shares of beverage companies have always ranked high among the market's safe havens in uncertain times. Even when consumer incomes are stretched thin, sales of beer and soda don't suffer much.
Business 2.0: Creative compensationupdated: Mon Feb 12 2007 17:09:00
Agency creatives enjoyed immense power during the go-go 1990s, but their clients' accountants stole much of it back after the tech bust and as ad spending has continued to flatten.
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. All too often, you can't judge a food by its label, either.
Here are some of the companies whose shares were active late Thursday:
Coca-Cola is introducing a sparkling green tea drink containing calcium and caffeine that reportedly burns calories.
Coca-Cola Enterprises ranks no. 346 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $18.7 billion in revenues, up 3% from the previous year. The Atlanta, Georgia-based company was ranked no. 334 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $0.5 billion, down 13.8% from a year earlier.
Coca-Cola asked for a protective order on Thursday so its trade secrets allegedly put up for sale by an employee will not be divulged in any legal action.
Only 33 percent of large firms (200-plus employees) offer them, half the proportion that offered them in 1988. Most experts think that dropoff will continue, which means that such benefits in any substantive form will just about disappear within several years.
Every year, Coca-Cola holds its annual shareholders' meeting not in its headquarters city, Atlanta, but in its place of incorporation, quiet Wilmington, Del., in the Hotel du Pont, built by the ind...
The nation's biggest beverage makers have agreed to end sales of nearly all sugary sodas to public schools, a group led by former President Clinton announced Wednesday.
Coca-Cola Enterprises ranks no. 120 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $18,706 million in revenues, up 3% from the previous year. The Atlanta-based company was ranked no. 123 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $514 million, down 13.8% from a year earlier.
Coca-Cola ranks no. 89 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $23,104 million in revenues, up 5.2% from the previous year. The Atlanta-based company was ranked no. 92 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $4,872 million, up .5% from a year earlier.
Coca-Cola Co. announced Wednesday that it will launch a new coffee-cola drink in 2006.
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.
Coca-Cola Co. CEO Neville Isdell swallowed a can full of pride before analysts Wednesday as he repeatedly admonished himself and the beverage behemoth he leads for not "delivering to our full potential."
It's well known that deeply depressed stocks often enjoy a rally as the year comes to a close. This used to be called the "January effect," but the phenomenon has occurred as early as November in recent years.
Coca-Cola Co. President and Chief Operating Officer Steven Heyer is leaving the company, a month after he lost the competition for the company's top job.
Now that Coca-Cola Co. has written the denouement to its latest public spectacle--now that it has landed a new chief executive after a search so remarkable that another FORTUNE 500 CEO, A.G. Lafley...
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.
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.
The Coca-Cola Company has recalled its entire Dasani range of bottled water in Britain after levels of bromate -- a derivative of bromine -- were found to exceed UK legal standards.
The Coca-Cola Co. is being investigated by trading standards officials in Britain over the use of the word "pure" on bottles of Dasani water.
Coca-Cola Co. made two moves this week to boost sagging soda sales in the United States.
Sitting on the audit committee of a publicly traded company is a grave and serious task. Members are responsible for reviewing the auditors' work and--ultimately--the integrity of a firm's financia...
Money Magazine: Winners & Losersupdated: Mon Apr 01 2002 00:01:00
An analysis of firms that report more than 40% of defined-contribution-plan assets in company stock shows that for every example of that stock enriching workers, there's an equally compelling examp...
It's a Saturday afternoon on the eerily quiet 25th floor of Coca-Cola's headquarters in Atlanta. CEO Doug Ivester, who has just flown home from a tempest in Europe--and will fly back into it the ne...
Is Ebitda getting out of hand again? The same performance measure (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) that corporate raiders cited to justify their takeovers in the 19...
It is nighttime in Shanghai, and by rights Doug Ivester should be in bed. He arrived here from Atlanta late last night, having spent a good part of his 51st birthday in an airplane. He was up early...
In almost a quarter-century as a business journalist I have logged a lot of time in the company of CEOs, a few of them great--Sam Walton, Andy Grove, Jack Welch, Michael Eisner--and others, well, n...
Midnight at Carre, Brussels' hottest nightclub. Madonna's "Like a Virgin" blasts from the sound system. The screens at the back of the stage, emblazoned with a giant label for Virgin Vodka, fly apa...
Inside the chairman's office on the 25th floor of Coca-Cola's stately headquarters in Atlanta, in the top left-hand drawer of his desk, Roberto Goizueta has for many years kept two charts. One desc...
With two-thirds of the world's people tuning into the largest Olympic games in history, companies like Coke, IBM, and Visa are paying the heftiest sponsorship fees ever. It's all part of a global m...
If you are dealing with a full-service brokerage firm, you're paying about $80 in commissions to buy or sell 100 shares of a $30 stock. That's roughly 50% more than you would pay a discount broker,...
Doug Ivester was at his desk at Coca-Cola headquarters on a Friday in early April 1993 when the news crossed the broad tape. Philip Morris was cutting the price of its Marlboro cigarettes by 40 cen...
THERE ARE ALL SORTS of ways to grade a chief executive. Look at his return on equity. Calculate his return on investment. Take quarterly note of his earnings growth. Rank him against his peers. Ran...
If ever there were a failure destined to kill a career, New Coke was it. Sergio Zyman was the marketing man behind the most disastrous product launch since the Edsel. Wounded, he left Coca-Cola a y...
IT'S BEEN more than 12 years now since the Coca-Cola Co.'s patriarch -- a nonagenarian, cigar-smoking, Old South tycoon known simply as The Boss -- emerged from the live-oak shadows of his Georgia ...
Want a stock with kangaroolike bounce? Try Coca-Cola Amatil, the leading soft drink and snack food manufacturer in Australia and a rapidly growing international distributor of the world's best-sell...
IF YOU KNOW the Coca-Cola Co. or have ridden the stock's 1,000% rise this past decade, you know the power behind the pop: It's those wonderfully profitable international operations. But you may not...
COMPETITION/COVER STORY 50 AMERICA'S HOTTEST EXPORT: POP CULTURE All around the globe, folks just can't get enough of America. But we're not talking cars and televisions. The world's insatiable app...
WHEN THE MAKER of the world's most popular product changes the way it does business, you at least have to take notice. And when it does this in the market it expects to be its most profitable in th...
PSST, BUDDY, want a hot tip on the stock market? Well, whenever a company adopts a restricted-stock plan for its executives, you get out of that stock fast and invest in some other company that doe...
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FRED JEROME survived a frequent flier's nightmare. Boarding a 9:30 Pan Am shuttle in New York one morning, he expected to arrive in Boston in plenty of time for a full afternoon of business meeting...
Fortune: NAME THAT BRANDupdated: Mon Jul 04 1988 00:01:00
Quick, what is the most powerful brand name in America? If you said, ''Coke is it,'' you're right, according to Landor Associates, a San Francisco design and image-consulting firm. Landor queried m...
THREE OR FOUR times a day Roberto C. Goizueta, the aristocratic Cuban-born chief executive of Coca-Cola, walks out of his oak-floored office in Atlanta and down the hall to a Quotron machine, where...
A record 717 new issues raised $22.4 billion from the public in 1986, including two offerings -- the Henley Group and Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's largest bottling company -- that each broke ...
The group of investors who bought Beatrice Cos. last year planned a major sell-off to repay part of the $6.9 billion they borrowed, and it seemed likely Beatrice's $1-billion-a-year Coca-Cola bottl...
MARKETERS battling to keep competitors from grabbing off customers complain that there just doesn't seem to be as much brand loyalty around as there used to be. Yet when Coca-Cola Co. dared to tamp...
Fortune: Diff'rent Cokesupdated: Mon Jul 22 1985 00:01:00
Coca-Cola Co., in another modification of its business formula, strengthened its profile in the entertainment industry by agreeing to buy two TV and film production companies co-owned by Norman Lea...
IN THE U.S. SOFT DRINK industry, where 1% of the market is worth $300 million in retail sales, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo don't wage mere market share battles. They fight holy wars. These days the fight...
GUILFORD, Vt.--The former Frederick Koch, who legally changed his name to Coke-Is-It, has negotiated an agreement with the Coca-Cola Company allowing him to keep his new name . . . The agreement pr...
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