This is a trade publication. It absorbed Southern and Southwestern Bottler.
Former titles include: National Carbonator and Bottler, American Carbonator and Bottler, and American Bottler. See also Soft Drink Journal.

This is a trade journal that covered the industry and has been know also as National Carbonator and Bottler, American Carbonator and Bottler, and American Bottler.

Soft drinks are sold in cans and bottles all over the world. They come in hundreds of different flavors. The most famous soft drink is Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola started about 120 years ago as a kind of tonic for common health problems. Asa Candler was a businessperson in Atlanta, Georgia. He started the company that made and bottled Coca-Cola. But what was his childhood like? How did he discover Coca-Cola?- Description from the publisher

How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula to Coke's success was its strategy, from the start, to offload costs and risks onto suppliers, franchisees, and the government. For most of its history the company owned no bottling plants, water sources, cane- or cornfields. A lean operation, it benefited from public goods like cheap municipal water and curbside recycling programs. Its huge appetite for ingredients gave it outsized influence on suppliers and congressional committees. This was Coca-Cola capitalism. In this new history Bartow J. Elmore explores Coke through its ingredients, showing how the company secured massive quantities of coca leaf, caffeine, sugar, and other inputs. Its growth was driven by shrewd leaders such as Asa Candler, who scaled an Atlanta soda-fountain operation into a national empire, and "boss" Robert Woodruff, who nurtured partnerships with companies like Hershey and Monsanto. These men, and the company they helped build, were seen as responsible citizens, bringing jobs and development to every corner of the globe. But as Elmore shows, Coke was usually getting the sweet end of the deal. It continues to do so. Alongside Coke's recent public investments in water purification infrastructure, especially in Africa, it has also built--less publicly--a rash of bottling plants in dangerously arid regions. Looking past its message of corporate citizenship, Elmore finds a strategy of relentless growth. The costs shed by Coke have fallen on the public at large. Its annual use of many billions of gallons of water has strained an increasingly scarce global resource. Its copious servings of high-fructose corn syrup have threatened public health. Citizen Coke became a giant in a world of abundance. In a world of scarcity it is a strain on resources and all who depend on them. - Description from the publisher The author was featured in an August 2023 podcast episode from Patented " Coca Cola: A Backyard Invention"

Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations--liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal--of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers' rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism's imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits. - Description from the publisher

For God, Country and Coca-Cola is the unauthorized history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins as a patent medicine in Reconstruction Atlanta through its rise as the dominant consumer beverage of the American century, the story of Coke is as unique, tasty, and effervescent as the drink itself. With vivid portraits of the entrepreneurs who founded the company -- and of the colorful cast of hustlers, swindlers, ad men, and con men who have made Coca-Cola the most recognized trademark in the world -- this is business history at its best: in fact, "The Real Thing." - Description from the publisher

This book traces Asa Candler's rise from a rural background as well as history of the company he founded from its early patent-medicine days to international phenomenon.

This is a statistical look at the industry.

This book really focuses on the period beginning with Asa Candler and then Robert Woodruff. The author had access to Coca-Cola’s archives as well as the private papers of Woodruff.

This book is a history of soft drinks in America, from mineral water to caffeine-free diet soda and is intended for younger audiences.

This is a trade journal that covered the industry.

Book directed at a juvenile audience. Discusses the founding and development of Coca-Cola, which calls itself the world's soft drink. - Description from the publisher

This title features countless chapters related to Coca-Cola's broad range of collectible items from 1880s to 1960s that includes calendars, toys, serving trays, bottles and coolers.

Historic American newspapers selected and contributed by state partners in the National Digital Newspaper Program. You can search Coca, Coca Cola, soft drinks, soda fountains, Asa G. Candler, Pemberton Chemical Company, Pemberton’s French Wine Coca, Vin Mariani, Dr. John Pemberton, as well as the names of any of the company's competitors like Pepsi-Cola.

This is the archive of the company website. Full online access to this resource is only available at the Library of Congress.

This is a web archive for the company web page in the Business of America web page archive collection. Some content may be under embargo. See the Rights and Access statement for more information.
Full online access to this resource is only available at the Library of Congress.

This is an inventory of annual reports held by the Library and holdings for Coca Cola back to 1920. It also includes resources for SEC filings and databases that can be used for annual reports.

Find photographs and prints in the Library of Congress collection by searching for Coca, Coca Cola, soft drinks, soda fountains, etc.

This guide is good for those who want to research the company itself.

This guide is useful for anyone who wants to research the history of Coca-Cola.

This guide provides sources and strategies for those researching industries in general.

This is entry in the Library's Today in History project for May 8.