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The Coca-Cola Company

Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: KO Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Beverage
Founded	1886 (1886)
Founder	Asa Griggs Candler
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Muhtar Kent (Chairman & CEO)
Products	List of The Coca-Cola Company products
Revenue	US $48.01 billion (2012)[1]
Operating income	US $10.84 billion (2012)[1]
Net income	US $9.01 billion (2012)[1]
Total assets	US $86.17 billion (2012)[1]
Total equity	US $32.79 billion (2012)[1]
Number of employees	146,200 (Dec 2011)[2]
Subsidiaries	List of The Coca-Cola Company subsidiaries
Website	Coca-ColaCompany.com

The Coca-Cola Company is a publicly-traded (sold on the stock market) 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:

• Barq's
• Diet Coke
• Coca-Cola Cherry (Cherry Coke)
• Fanta
• Sprite
• Tab
• Mr. Pibb
• Mello Yellow
• Vault

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.