The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company, which is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is an

American multinational Beverage Corporation, and manufacturer, retailer,
and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The
company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886
by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia. The Coca-Cola
formula and brand were bought in 1889 by Asa Griggs Candler (December
30, 1851 March 12, 1929), who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in
1892. The company has operated a franchised distribution system since
1889, wherein The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate,
which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold
exclusive territories. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North
America, Coca-Cola Refreshments.
Coca-Cola (often referred to simply as Coke) is a carbonated soft drink
produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia. The name refers to
two of its original ingredients: kola nuts, a source of caffeine, and coca
leaves. The current formula of Coca-Cola remains a trade secret, although a
variety of reported recipes and experimental recreations have been
published.
The company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola
bottlers throughout the world. The bottlers, who hold exclusive territory
contracts with the company, produce the finished product in cans and bottles
from the concentrate, in combination with filtered water and sweeteners. A
typical 12 oz. (355 ml) can contains 38g of sugar (usually in the form of
HFCS). The bottlers then sell, distribute and merchandise Coca-Cola to retail
stores, restaurants and vending machines. 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. In 2013, Coke products could be found in over 200 countries
worldwide, with consumers downing more than 1.8 billion company beverage
servings each day.

Production:

Ingredients:
Carbonated water
Sugar (sucrose or high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) depending on country of
origin)
Caffeine
Phosphoric acid
Caramel color (E150d)
Natural flavorings
A typical can of Coca-Cola (12 fl ounces/355 ml) contains 38 grams of sugar
(usually in the form of HFCS), 50 mg of sodium, 0 grams fat, 0 grams
potassium, and 140 calories. On May 5, 2014, Coca-Cola said it is working to
remove a controversial ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, from all of its
drinks.
Use of stimulants in formula:
When launched, Coca-Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine and caffeine.
The cocaine was derived from the coca leaf and the caffeine from kola nut,
leading to the name Coca-Cola (the "K" in Kola was replaced with a "C" for
marketing purposes).
Coca cocaine:
After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent"
leaves the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with trace levels of
cocaine. Since then, Coca-Cola uses a cocaine-free coca leaf extract
prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.
Kola nuts caffeine:
Kola nuts act as a flavoring and the source of caffeine in Coca-Cola. In
Britain, for example, the ingredient label states "Flavourings (Including
Caffeine)." Kola nuts contain about 2.0 to 3.5% caffeine, are of bitter flavor
and are commonly used in cola soft drinks. In 1911, the U.S. government
initiated United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola, hoping
to force Coca-Cola to remove caffeine from its formula. The case was decided
in favor of Coca-Cola. Subsequently, in 1912, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug
Act was amended, adding caffeine to the list of "habit-forming" and
"deleterious" substances which must be listed on a product's label. CocaCola contains 34 mg of caffeine per 12 fluid ounces (9.8 mg per 100 ml).

Logo design:
The Coca-Cola logo was created by John Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank
Mason Robinson, in 1885. Robinson came up with the name and chose the
logo's distinctive cursive script. The writing style used, known as Spencerian
script, was developed in the mid-19th century and was the dominant form of
formal handwriting in the United States during that period.

How Coke is Made and Bottled:

The composition and bottling process is a complex and interesting process. It
takes a lot to make every single bottle of Coke taste the same. The World of
Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta has a special room dedicated to the bottling
process. It is a room full of robotic arms, machines and so on. The exhibit is a
replica of an actual bottling plant. The process is just slowed down for guests
to see what goes on. Everything is robotic; nothing is done by the human
hand.
First off, the Cokes are taken to the cleaning unit. Here, the bottles get
cleaned, steamed and sanitized to rid them of any dirt and debris. This is
done by jet streams and water. Then, the bottles are picked up by something
that can only be described as an overhead conveyer belt. It's not a
traditional conveyer belt, though. Individual clamps pick up a bottle, and
they are transported from station to station above the room.
Then it is time for the Coke to be put into the bottles. The soda is not all put
in at the same time. The mixing process actually has more steps now than it
did when it was first bottled. Before, the syrup would go in first, and the
carbonated water would go on top.

Now, in a room full of bags of sugar and buckets of caramel coloring, Coke is
bottled using four different steps. First, pure water is put in the bottle by a
machine, after that, refined sugar is added to the mix.
Then, the sugar water gets the Coke's secret formula mixture and some
caramel coloring. A machines shake the bottles up a bit to make sure
everything is mixed together well.
After everything is mixed together, carbon dioxide is added to the mix to
make the drink fizz. After all, who wants a flat bottle of Coke? The machines
then sent the bottle down another conveyer. In any Coke bottling plant, this
would be the point where drinks would be checked by a person for quality,
but since this was an exhibit, this step was not shown to visitors.
The exhibit continues to the back of the museum, where visitors exit. The
eight-ounce glass bottles of Cokes come off the conveyer belt, and they are
available for visitors to take home.

Chryslers Belvidere Assembly and Stamping Plant

This plant, which is right off Route 90 and Route 20 in Illinois, was Chrysler's
only small car production facility in the United States after 1993, which
nearly 1 million Neons built at the plant from 1993 to February 1998.
Ironically, the Belvidere Assembly Plant had come on-line in 1965 with
production of full-sized station Plymouth Fury and Dodge Monaco wagons. In
1969, the plant was making the Fury and full-sized Dodge Polara. At the
dawn of 2012, it was making preproduction Dodge Darts, along with Jeep
Patriots and Compasses.
The plant was named after the city it was in, with no relation to the
Belvedere car, which was reportedly named after the hotel. It made rear
wheel drive cars until 1977; after that, it switched to making L-body cars,
including the Horizon, Omni, O24, TC3, Charger, Turismo, and Duster. A
single year after Chryslers cheapest models left the plant, the corporations
priciest cars moved in: the Imperial, Fifth Avenue, New Yorker, and Dynasty.
They were succeeded again by the corporations least expensive car, the
Neon, which was replaced by the entry-level Caliber, Compass, and Patriot.
Employees from the Belvidere Assembly Plant took part in a 90-day, onemillion mile Neon ride-and-drive verification program that began in
September 1993. One hundred volunteer assembly workers rotated through

50 cars every day - in two eight-hour shifts - over a variety of road

conditions. The goal was to put at least 12,000 miles on most of the cars, up
to 36,000 miles on as many as possible and 100,000 miles on at least two of
them, and to find what would fail.
In late 1993, Belvidere had 3.3 million square feet of floor space covering
280 acres. The plant began Neon production on November 10, 1993, with
numerous manufacturing firsts. 3,250 hourly and 250 salaried employees
were on staff, with an average age of 48 years and 23 years average length
of service; their combined payroll was $231 million in 1992, when they built
125,000 cars. At the time, 380 robots were used; the plant had built 5.9
million vehicles before starting on the Neon.
2010-2012 Belvidere plant expansion:
The Rockford Register Star reported in July 2010 that Chrysler has confirmed
a 500,000 square foot addition to the Belvidere, Ohio assembly plant, to hold
a larger body shop.

The Caliber, Compass, and Patriot are being replaced by new cars
engineered by Chrysler, using an altered set of dimensions and architectures
created by Fiat. The midsize and compact cars (Dodge Dart) were engineered
to be built in the same plant, on the same lines, thanks to certain common
dimensions. As a result, Belvidere and possibly other plants - Toledo and
possibly Sterling Heights - would all be able to make the same sets of cars,
increasing Chrysler's ability to respond quickly to market shifts. If the Dodge
Dart became a runaway hit, it could conceivably be made in two or three
factories at once, at the same time as other models were made (this could
also reduce the need to change colors as frequently - the company could
make Belvidere the "red and white" plant for all models, Toledo the "red and
black" plant, etc., saving money on paint and washes and reducing the
environmental impact.)

In 2012, Chrysler announced today that it would add about 1,800 jobs at its
Belvidere Assembly Plant, including a third crew and hundreds of jobs for
production of the Dodge Dart. In addition to the jobs announcement,
Marchionne acknowledged that the previously announced $600 million
investment in a new 638,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art body shop had
grown to nearly $700 million. The investment also included the installation of
new machinery, tooling and material handling equipment exclusively for the
production of the Dart.