Posts about Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola To Meet Dieters Halfway With Mid-Calorie Sprite & Fanta
Several years after abandoning its mid-calorie "C2" version of Coke, Coca-Cola has confirmed reports it will be dipping its toes into the not-quite-sugar-free pool again by testing mid-calorie editions of both Sprite and Fanta. More »

Coca-Cola On Woman's Death: You Could Die From Drinking Too Much Water, Too
There's not a doctor out there (we hope) who would say drinking two gallons of Coca-Cola a day is good for your health, but did it contribute to a New Zealand woman's death? Coca-Cola would like to note that even too much water can be deadly. So, there's that. More »

Family Claims Coca-Cola Owes Them 1.8 Million Shares For Old Stock Certificate
Like something straight out of Antiques Roadshow (aka the show that makes you want to rip apart your attic every time someone gets a surprise windfall), the family of a man who passed away a few years ago claims Coca-Cola owes them 1.8 million shares, worth around $130 million, of the company after coming upon a stock certificate the man bought at a garage sale. More »

Dunkin' Donuts Breaks Up With Pepsi To Go Steady With Coke
If your world actually does run on Dunkin', you may notice a bit of a change at your local chain. The company announced Monday that they're switching from offering PepsiCo products to Coca-Cola in all Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins in the U.S. More »

It's Time To Get Your HFCS-Free Kosher-For-Passover Coke & Pepsi!
The Jewish holiday of Passover is coming up, which means that Coca-Cola and Pepsi put out special versions of their signature beverages that contain regular old sugar and not high fructose corn syrup. More »

Coke Clarifies That It Is Not Changing Its Recipe In Wake Of Study
Quit your whining, Coca-Cola aficionados — the company is not changing its recipe for Coke after a consumer group study claimed the caramel color they use causes cancer. While they're disputing the study, they are also clarifying that they're just asking caramel suppliers to modify their processes in making the color. More »

The United Arab Emirates Will Not Stand For The Grocery Shrink Ray
When Coke and Pepsi cans sold in the United Arab Emirates were shrink rayed from 355 milliliters (about 12 ounces) to 300 mL (about 10 ounces) while the price remained the same, it wasn't just customers who complained. The government noticed, too, and is removing the offending cans from store shelves. Those wacky foreigners! More »

Coca-Cola Reveals It Blew The Whistle On Orange Juice Contamination
When word broke that the Food and Drug Administration had halted orange juice shipments to check for a potentially harmful fungicide, the government was mum on which company found evidence that triggered the reaction. Now Coca-Cola solved the mystery by confirming it was responsible for spotting carbendazim — an illegal fungicide believed to cause infertility — in a shipment from Brazil. More »

Coke's Secret Formula Moved To Atlanta Museum
For the first time since 1925, Coca-Cola has moved its secret recipe out of a bank vault, and put it on display in the company's World of Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta. But "on display" doesn't exactly mean visible, since the exhibit includes its own vault, which is about all visitors will be able to see. More »

Coca-Cola Nixes Those White Holiday Cans That Freaked Everyone Out
You have grumbled, railed and complained against stark white soda cans and it seems Coca-Cola is listening, as they've announced they'll return normal red Christmas cans next week. More »

Coca-Cola Helps Put Kibosh On Grand Canyon Water Bottle Ban
Discarded plastic bottles account for around 30% of trash at the Grand Canyon, so in an effort to reduce the amount of waste left behind by the oodles of visitors, the park was all set to launch a ban on the sale of bottled water. But then, after the folks at Coca-Cola voiced their concerns, a top national park official decided to pull the plug on the program. More »

Five Guys Is First Fast Food Chain To Get Coca-Cola Freestyle Machines
It's been more than two years since we first wrote about Coca-Cola's Freestyle soda machines that give customers more than 100 drink options to choose from, but the magical devices have been slow to roll out. But that may be about to change, as the rapidly growing Five Guys burger chain has announced it will be installing the machines in the coming months. More »

Teen Freed From Coke Machine He Tried To Steal From
The recession continues to inspire people to do stupid crap to avoid paying money. This week's case in point, the teen who got stuck in a Coke machine after he tried to get a free can of soda. More »

Blind Taste Test Shows That You Don't Really Prefer Mexican Coke
"What, Consumerist?! Nooo!" I hear you yelling at the screen after reading the title of this post. "I find Mexican Coca-Cola vastly superior. My sweet tooth is too sensitive! My palate is too refined!" That's probably what the participants in a blind taste test for Serious Eats said, too. But tasters didn't prefer the fine, refrescotaste of Mexican Coke. They liked one of two things: American coke poured from a glass bottle (even if they never saw the bottle), or American Coke that they were led to believe was Mexican Coke. More »

25 CEOs Who Made More Than Their Companies Paid In Income Taxes
The Institute for Policy Studies has just released its 18th annual review of U.S. executive compensation and found that 25 out of the country's 100 highest-paid chief executives actually earned more in 2010 than their companies paid out in corporate income taxes. More »

Big Soda Sues NYC Health Dept. Over Anti-Pop Agenda
While municipalities around the country continue to talk smack about sugary drinks, often while trying to slap a hefty tax on the beverages, the pop industry has been fighting back in the courtroom. More »

Coca-Cola Plants Living, Breathing Billboard
Advertising, especially of the outdoor variety, is often viewed as being anti-green, a signifier of befouled outdoor spaces. But this Coca-Cola billboard is trying to turn that image on its head — and sell some Coke while it's at it. More »

How Nasty Is Your Bottled Water?
Does your bottled water taste funny? It's not just that it's probably only tapwater. Environmental Working Group rated 173 brands of bottled water based on their sourcing information, purification, testing, and how transparent the information on their label and website was. Turns out, some of the biggest brands in bottled water are, well, a little murky. More »

Coca-Cola Raising Prices 3-4% In July
Just in time for 4th of July picnics, sucking down the sweet elixirs spewed out by Coca-Cola is about to get a little pricier. Citing the rising cost of commodities, the bottling giant announced it's going to raise prices 2-3% in July. More »

HFCS-Free Kosher Pepsi Now Available For Passover
Passover starts next week, which means that fans of non-HFCS colas can stock up on 2-liters of soda that eschew any sort of corn-based ingredients in favor of sugar. But while we've written about kosher Coke in year's past this is the first year we've noticed that Pepsi is offering a Passover-ready drink. More »

Should Companies Be Held Accountable For Investors' Personal Lives?
If the personal life of a Fortune 500 CEO starts making headlines, you can be sure that the investors — and maybe even the general public — won't be able to extricate the person from the brand. But what about when there is a public outcry against one of that company's major investors? More »

Diet Coke Unseats Pepsi As #2 Cola Brand
Pepsi has spent decades throwing stones at Coke from its position in second place among the fizzy beverage brands. And now Pepsi will need to toss those stones even farther as the brand has given up its spot to Diet Coke and slipped to third on the list. More »

Coke Pulls Some Products From Shelves For "Off Taste"
Some retailers in the St. Louis area are being asked to pull a variety of Coca-Cola products off the shelves because of a "slight off taste." More »

American Beverage Association Responds To Call For Ban On Caramel Coloring In Cola
Earlier this week, the Center For Science In The Public Interest petitioned the FDA to ban two forms of caramel coloring, claiming that the ammonia and sulfites used in the creation of the products results in allegedly carcinogenic chemicals making their way into the resulting food and drink. Consumerist reached out to Coca-Cola and Pepsi to get their side of the story, but were instead passed on to the American Beverage Association, which offered its own version of things. More »

CSPI Asks FDA To Ban Caramel Coloring Used In Coke, Pepsi And Other Stuff You Like
Yesterday, the folks at the Center for Science in the Public Interest sent a petition to the Food & Drug Administration, demanding that the "caramel coloring" commonly used in sodas like Coke and Pepsi be banned because they claim it contains a pair of carcinogenic chemicals. More »

Coca-Cola Says Revealed Recipe Is Not The Real Deal
The internet has been abuzz this week with reports that Coca-Cola's secret recipe had been inadvertently leaked in a 1979 newspaper story. But the beverage behemoth is attempting to kill that buzz by saying that the revealed recipe isn't authentic. More »

Is This The Secret Recipe For Coca-Cola?
The greatest trade secret of all time — the secret recipe for Coca-Cola — has been revealed, according to This American Life and The Daily Mail. In fact, the secret behind Coke's proprietary mixture of sugar, water, caramel color and more sugar, may have actually been exposed 32 years ago, in an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. More »

Diet Coke's Anti-Starbucks Ad Finds Perfect Home On Wall Outside Starbucks
Here in NYC, there are countless surfaces available for slapping your ads onto. So for its slam on Starbucks, the folks at Diet Coke picked the perfect spot: on the same building as Starbucks. More »

Consumers Group Asks FTC To Stop Misleading Vitaminwater Marketing
Sick of seeing Vitaminwater continue to market itself as some sort of health drink, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, the National Consumers League has called on the Federal Trade Commission to intervene and put an end to what it believes are Vitaminwater's deceptive practices. More »

Dr. Pepper Testing 10-Calorie "Dr. Pepper Ten" In Six Cities
Even though there is already a zero-calorie diet version of Dr. Pepper, the soda company is thinking about releasing a 10-calorie version and is testing it out at stores in a handful of markets around the country. More »

Coca Cola Launches Recycling Machine That Does The Sorting For You
Situated outside a Kroger in Arlington, TX, is a new structure that resembles a slimmed down drive-thru restaurant or the world's longest ATM. It's actually the first of Coca-Cola's "Reimagine" recycling machines that allows customers to dump aluminum cans and #1 PET plastic containers in all at the same time. More »

Study: Sugary Beverages Have Tenuous Relationship Between Reality And Nutrition Info
Adding fuel to the HFCS vs. sugar fire, a new study claims that not only does the actual amount of sugar in a sweetened beverage vary wildly from what the nutritional information says, but that drinks sweetened with High-Fructose Corn Syrup contain significantly more fructose than had been expected. More »

Pepsi Has The Balls To Say What Coke Won't: HFCS Doesn't Taste Exactly The Same As Sugar
A few weeks back, Coca-Cola informed us that there is no distinguishable difference in taste between Coke made with High-Fructose Corn Syrup and Coke made with cane sugar. But when we asked the people at Pepsi the same question, they had a very different answer. More »

Heirs Of Barq's Bastard Sue Coca-Cola
It's like something out of one of those daytime soaps I have most certainly never gotten hooked on — Heirs of the illegitimate son of the Barq's root beer founder have filed a lawsuit against Coca-Cola, alleging that the 1995 sale of Barq's to the cola colossus wasn't exactly legit. More »

Coca Cola: We Don't Need To Make A Cane Sugar Version Because You Already Have Mexican Coke
A few weeks back, we asked readers if they would buy a cane sugar version of Coca Cola and an overwhelming 89% of you said "yes." So Consumerist asked Coke if the company had any plans to introduce non-HFCS version — a la Pepsi Throwback — on a national scale. The answer — no, because we already have Mexican Coke. More »

More People Buying Mexican Coca Cola
Perhaps it's the glass bottles. Or it could be the lack of high fructose corn syrup. Maybe it just tastes better. Whatever the reason, a growing number of folks on the north side of the Rio Grande are drinking Coca Cola bottled in Mexico. More »

Sierra Mist Ditching HFCS For Good, 7Up Getting Reformulated
Barring the complete outlawing of fizzy drinks, the Coke vs. Pepsi fight will continue to be the main event in pop pugilism. But what about the albino step-siblings of these cola titans — the lemon-lime drinks? These lesser libations — Sprite, Sierra Mist, 7Up — have seen their ad budgets butchered and their sales sink in recent years. But none of them are willing to go down for the count without at least one last left hook. More »

Vitaminwater Isn't Healthy, Rules Federal Judge
A federal judge ruled this week that Vitaminwater will not, as its labels promise, keep you "healthy as a horse." Nor will it bring about a "healthy state of physical or mental being". Instead, Vitaminwater is really just a sugary snack food; non-carbonated fruit coke disguised as a sports drink. Because it's composed mostly of sugar and not vitamin-laden water, judge John Gleeson held that Vitaminwater's absurd marketing claims were likely to mislead consumers. More »

Burger King And Coca Cola Both Caught Badvertising In The UK
It hasn't been a good week on the other side of the pond for Burger King or Coca Cola. The fast food company got a kick in the rear for misleading customers about the size of its chicken sandwich, while the cola giant is left having to tell little kids not to Google "2 girls 1 cup" after a failed Facebook campaign. More »

Beware Of Coca Cola Facebook Scam
Are any of your Facebook friends posting status updates about how they've been turned off from drinking Coca Cola after watching some video? Yes, there's the rare chance your friend has gotten sick of the "Buy the World a Coke" jingle, but it's more likely that their account has been hijacked (or rather, "clickjacked") by nefarious, nerdy forces. More »

Coke Gets The Blood Stains Out
Coca-cola is a magical elixir that can do so many things, like clean blood stains from fabric! More »

Dr. Pepper Temporarily Ditches HFCS To Celebrate 125th Birthday
If you're a real sugar fan and you spot a really old looking can of Dr. Pepper at your grocery store in the next few weeks, you might want to stock up. To celebrate its 125th anniversary, the soda brand is going retro with its can designs — and its sweetener. More »

Iran Bans Coca-Cola, IBM And Other U.S. Brands
While U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are waiting to hear if they'll get their American fast food faves back, people in Iran who are fans of U.S.-based brands like Coke and IBM are going to have to turn to the black market because the country's government just isn't having them anymore. More »