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redesigns
Coca-Cola Redesigns Fruit Juice Cartons To Emphasize Fruit
One year after Tropicana's disastrous redesign of their orange juice packaging, Coca-Cola is debuting a redesign of the cartons in their various lines of fruit juices. Coke's key advantage: the new design isn't hideously ugly. More » -
discounts
Costco Bans Coca-Cola
A dispute over pricing has led Costco to stop selling a number of Coca-Cola brands, which means all Coke varieties as well as Sprite, Squirt, Dasani water, and Full Throttle energy drinks, reports the Associated Press. More » -
hitting the bottle
Coke Is Going Retro-Futuristic With New Bottles
Look at Coke, getting all futuristic. First with these soda machines and now with these snazzy new bottles, spotted by the Orange County Register. More » -
activism
Facebook Members Go After Coca-Cola
How long will it take for Coke to give up on its Facebook page? That depends how long its PR machine can keep deleting the "fun facts" on its Wall: More » -
Diet Coke Plus
FDA Is Not Impressed By Diet Coke Plus
Last month, the FDA sent Coca-Cola a letter warning that their Diet Coke Plus ("it's what plants crave") violates FDA standards for products fortified with vitamins. -
coca-cola
Coca-Cola's Probably Regretting Sponsoring Argentina's Women's Soccer Team
Pictured above are members of Argentina's olympic soccer team, celebrating their trip to the Olympics in Beijing. Although they're not the first Olympic team to strike this tasteless pose, they are the first to do so while wearing their corporate sponsor's name on their jerseys.
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economy
Hey North America: Why Aren't You Buying 20 Oz Bottles Of Coke?
Oh no! You know there's something wrong with the economy when people stop buying (comparatively) expensive 20 oz bottles of Coke. The Wall Street Journal says that sales of Coke's biggest profit-maker are down and its affecting the company's bottom line. More » -
branding
Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple
Coca-Cola has come out on top of the "Best Brands" Harris Poll for the first time ever. Sony, the leader for the past 7 years slipped to number 2. More » -
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waste not
Stuck With A 2 Litre Of Flat Coca-Cola? Cook With It!
Some dumbass didn't tighten the cap on the Coke? It's no big deal. Apparently, Coke is as acidic as lemon juice or vinegar, making it a good (albeit probably not very healthy) product to cook with, according to the South Carolina newspaper The State. More » -
let's negotiate
Sudan Threatens To Cut Off The World's Supply Of Coca-Cola
Sudan is not happy about Bush's new economic sanctions. In fact, their ambassador held a weird news conference that Dana Milbank of the Washington Post described as bearing "no relation to reality," in which the ambassador threatened to personally cut off the supply of gum arabic, an important ingredient in soft drinks. John Ukec Lueth Ukec, Sudan's Ambassador, said:"The United States is the only country saying that what is happening in Darfur is a genocide," Ukec shouted, gesticulating wildly and perspiring from his bald crown. "I think this is a pretext."
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coffee sommeliers
Would You Like To See The Coffee List, Sir?
Coca-Cola and Sara Lee are developing tools to pair beverages with food in the hopes that soda, beer, and coffee may be the new wine.The tool helps sales people figure out for restaurateurs that cheesecake, with its high fat content, calls for a dark roast, heavy bodied coffee with a high acidity level, she said. A fudge brownie, however, calls for a lower acidity level. And pound cake goes down better with a light roast coffee with high acidity.
Sara Lee's pairing tool was unveiled two weeks ago, and Coca-Cola expects to implement a similar program next year. Ron DeSantis of the Culinary Institute of America thinks such tools will become prevalent as "U.S. palates become more sophisticated." We never realized ordering water at a restaurant was the mark of an unsophisticated boor. Pairing tools will undoubtedly present restauranteurs with an opportunity to upsell certain beverages. Would you trust their recommendations? Tell us in the comments. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER More » -
tv
America's Least Wanted: Top 10 TV Product Placement Offenders
Product placement is annoying. You can't TiVo through it, it's distracting, and you can't get rid of it. Neilsen has compiled a list of the top 10 shows with the most product placement advertising as well as the top 10 offending advertisers. Quite unsurprisingly, FOX's American Idol comes in at the top spot with 4,086 occurrences of product placement. Yuck. More » -
coke
Get Ready For Passover Coke!
What, you ask, is "Passover Coke?" It's Coke made with sugar. Yes, real sugar! Not corn syrup. From NPR:
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coke
Caffiene Content To Be Displayed on Coke Labels, Too.
Following Pepsi's move to include information about caffeine content on its labels, Coke announced today that they'd be doing the same. Copycats. From FOX 28: More » -
coke
What Coke Does To Your Body
Mmm, wouldn't a tall, frosty glass of Coca-Cola really hit the spot right now? Before you suckle on the carbonated syrup teat, Healthbolt blog tells you what exactly it does to your system: More » -
customer service
Dasani, The Opposite of Gross
Tom Bartlett quite enjoys writing letters to companies and asking questions of their laminated manual response team. Today, he's got one from Dasani, Coca-Cola's bottled water which contains the same water they use for Coke, just before they put in the bubbles. More » -
coke
Coke Sued to Stop Using Leaded Labels
Coke? Will that be unleaded or regular? California prefers the former and sued Coca-Cola yesterday, asking it to pretty please with a dead baby on top, to stop using lead-based paint on their labels. Reports the LA Times: More » -
coke
How Much Does That Sweet Tooth Cost?
You may be one of those strange people who slow down for traffic accidents, not out of courtesy, but so you can gaze at the twisted limbs longer. If so, you may enjoy this collection of fun nutritional data sheets about products from the Coca-Cola corporation, including, but not limited to, Coke. More »
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