Just as Coca Cola has protected its soft drink formula from Pepsi and other competitors for more than a century under U.S. Patent law, these frac contractors also have the right to protect their patented compounds and formulas.
Much as Coca-Cola's success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
Among them three beverage-companies, soft drink-maker Coca-Cola and brewers Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller, and Heineken.
We believe integrating the bottlers business into its own business and leveraging its strong brand image in carbonated soft drink market, Coca-Cola will be able to increase its revenues from national and international operations.
The purpose was to meet with the owner of local soft drink Inca Kola, which Coca-Cola wanted to acquire.
It is almost reminiscent of the cola wars, with Coke and Pepsi fighting over the soft drink taste preferences of millions around the world.
We expect the namesake beverage Coca-Cola to gradually increase its market share in the international soft drink markets as the company continues to go deeper into the developing regions.
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After advising the Cisneros family on switching their Pepsi-bottling assets to Coca-Cola in 1996 and then selling them to Panamerican Beverages, a large Latin American Coke bottler, McCausland asked Oswaldo Cisneros to fly to Lima, Peru, to meet with the owner of local soft drink Inca Kola, which Coca-Cola wanted to acquire.
Pepsi, the flagship brand of PepsiCo, is the second most popular soft drink brand worldwide and trails only Coca-Cola in terms of sales.
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First news hit the markets that for the first time ever, Diet Coke had overtaken Pepsi as the second-most popular soft drink in the country, behind Coca-Cola.
Until recently a passive player in Coca-Cola's marketing efforts, 7-Eleven is changing the soft-drink game.
The most iconic example is the Coca-Cola Company's attempt to reformulate the world's most popular soft drink on April 23, 1985 - "a day that will live in marketing infamy", according to the company's website.
Coca-Cola has said the video was not made in response to criticism of the soft drink industry, but is an effort to raise awareness.
But in the 1980s, carbonated soft drinks overtook tap as the most popular drink, with Coca-Cola and PepsiCo putting their marketing muscle behind their colas with celebrity endorsements from the likes of pop star Michael Jackson and comedian Bill Cosby.
Warren Buffet, the unbelievably homespun billionaire and long-time Coca-Cola director and shareholder, has been a staunch critic of options accounting and called the soft drink maker's accounting change a "classy move, " adding that he would feel "far more comfortable" if other companies followed its lead.
Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people )'s success results from soft-drink recipes unknown to its competitors, the success of investors is almost by definition a function of their individual analysis, which, if superior to that of competitors, allows them to outperform.
In another, one of Cobb's sons stands in front of a Coca-Cola sign a fitting juxtaposition because Cobb made millions as an early investor in the soft-drink company.
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