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Cocaine and Conquest of the USSR: 15 Facts About Coca-Cola, you did not know
This drink is sold worldwide. Find a person who has not faced a soda in the red jar, except that you can in any civilization knows no tribe deep in the jungle. According to several research companies, about 94% of the inhabitants of the Earth somehow familiar with Coca-Cola. However, even the most avid connoisseurs of this drink do not know all the secrets related to the popular soda.
1. Constant logo
While most companies have lowered a fortune on the creation and alteration of their logo, Coca-Cola company is not spent on the case dime. The famous inscription curly letters appeared in 1886 through the efforts of an accountant Frank Robinson. The man worked for a pharmacist John Pemberton, who invented the recipe soda. Created Robinson logo the company uses to this day.
Throughout its history, Coca-Cola has never changed its character. The company's designers have made only small changes. You can not say about the nearest competitor "Cola» - Pepsi. That's really who loves to redraw the logo! And not always successfully. That only is the latest experiment "Pepsi" for $ 1 million, which we described in a recent material.
< 2. Drink, soothing nerves
In 1886, Coca-Cola first went on sale. Soda presented not as a soft drink, but as a "sedative". John Perbenton also claimed that his soda gets rid of impotence. That's one of the first look posters "Cola", calling for a sip of soda, if you are tired.
3. Cocaine is a part of
Until 1903 in the Coca-Cola entered cocaine. Some tend to think that this is just a myth, but coca leaves really used to create soda, cocaine because he at that time was considered a banned substance.
4. Coca-Cola - it is 3% of all the drinks in the drinks world
In its report in 2014, the company's management to share interesting calculations, according to which, Coca-Cola products account for 3% of all drinks every day in the world of beverages (except plain water).
5. In some countries, Coca-Cola has not found
In the world there are only two states where you can not buy this soda: Cuba and North Korea. Until 2012, the list includes more and Myanmar. Deliveries of sweet drinks to Cuba ceased in 1960. This was once the country was one of the first foreign consumers, "Coca-Cola».
But on store shelves in North Korea this drink did not appear ever.
< 6. How much time to try all the products of Coca-Cola
The company produces a great variety of drinks. If every day to try a new one, you will need to spend at least 9 years to go through the entire range. To date, the portfolio of products listed over 3,500 drinks and 500 brands. In the photo - apple drink Lift, sold in Germany
.
In the Russian market there are only 20 companies brands.
< 7. Coca-Cola and the path to the moon
If the spill produced during the existence of the company "Coca-Cola" in the jar volume a little more than 200 ml and put them out of the track, its length will exceed 2000 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
8. How much is the Coca-Cola brand
At Coca-Cola today is estimated at 83, 8 billion dollars. This is more than, for example, the value of the companies KFC, Subway, Pepsi and Budweiser together.
9. The word, of course all
The company claims that the word "Coca-Cola" is the most understood by people all over the world, after the word "OK».
10. Where "Cola" love the most
Many tend to think that most of all Coca-Cola drinks, US residents. However, it is not. Leaders in the use of sweet drinks is neighboring Mexico. The average Mexican drinks for the year of about 745 cans of "cola". The indicator in the States is much more modest - about 400.
11. The concept coupon
The company is convinced that it is thanks to her world appeared concept coupon (coupon for a free product). The grounds to make such statements by the manufacturer is. The first coupons - they can be exchanged for a free glass of soda - Coca-Cola began to produce in 1887. They looked so.
Get a coupon for a free drink consumers could in several ways: by e-mail or cut from a magazine. According to the company's management, this is the reception offered at the time the producer of sweet drink wildly popular and helped to enter the foreign market.
< 12. The appearance of Santa Claus
A colleague of Santa Claus Santa with its modern appearance is obliged designer Coca-Cola Haddon Sundblom. It was he who in 1931 painted a cheerful old wizard with a fluffy white beard and red suit. After the bright New Year's character appeared on posters, Christmas campaign "Coca-Cola", launched in 1921, began to gain popularity. Interestingly, 90% of Americans believe that the Coca-Cola company came up with the character of Santa Claus, rather than its modern image.
13. Boycott the Olympics and
In 1980, when the US government decided to boycott the Olympics in the Soviet Union, a manufacturer of sweet drinks has decided not to join the action (apparently for financial reasons), and became a partner in a sporting event. It was in that year, the majority of residents of the Union for the first time tasted the drink.
14. The first in space
In 1985, Coca-Cola was the first soft drink, which hit the space. Soda manufacturer developed a special bank with a special "tube" for astronauts. Know-how has been tested by the crew of the shuttle Challenger. Later Coca-Cola in a jar has repeatedly brought to the station
«World».
15. The ideal temperature of the beverage
The manufacturer of the famous soda argues that the ideal temperature, "Coca-Cola" for use - by 1, 1 to 3, 3 degrees Celsius
.
There is another curious fact the manufacturer, however, not confirmed. Its reliability, scientists from the University of Michigan insist (USA). According to them, sweet drinks (Coca-Cola and refers precisely to this beverage group) can cause addiction comparable to drug. According to the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) sweet soda scored 3, 29 points.
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1. Constant logo
While most companies have lowered a fortune on the creation and alteration of their logo, Coca-Cola company is not spent on the case dime. The famous inscription curly letters appeared in 1886 through the efforts of an accountant Frank Robinson. The man worked for a pharmacist John Pemberton, who invented the recipe soda. Created Robinson logo the company uses to this day.
Throughout its history, Coca-Cola has never changed its character. The company's designers have made only small changes. You can not say about the nearest competitor "Cola» - Pepsi. That's really who loves to redraw the logo! And not always successfully. That only is the latest experiment "Pepsi" for $ 1 million, which we described in a recent material.
< 2. Drink, soothing nerves
In 1886, Coca-Cola first went on sale. Soda presented not as a soft drink, but as a "sedative". John Perbenton also claimed that his soda gets rid of impotence. That's one of the first look posters "Cola", calling for a sip of soda, if you are tired.
3. Cocaine is a part of
Until 1903 in the Coca-Cola entered cocaine. Some tend to think that this is just a myth, but coca leaves really used to create soda, cocaine because he at that time was considered a banned substance.
4. Coca-Cola - it is 3% of all the drinks in the drinks world
In its report in 2014, the company's management to share interesting calculations, according to which, Coca-Cola products account for 3% of all drinks every day in the world of beverages (except plain water).
5. In some countries, Coca-Cola has not found
In the world there are only two states where you can not buy this soda: Cuba and North Korea. Until 2012, the list includes more and Myanmar. Deliveries of sweet drinks to Cuba ceased in 1960. This was once the country was one of the first foreign consumers, "Coca-Cola».
But on store shelves in North Korea this drink did not appear ever.
< 6. How much time to try all the products of Coca-Cola
The company produces a great variety of drinks. If every day to try a new one, you will need to spend at least 9 years to go through the entire range. To date, the portfolio of products listed over 3,500 drinks and 500 brands. In the photo - apple drink Lift, sold in Germany
.
In the Russian market there are only 20 companies brands.
< 7. Coca-Cola and the path to the moon
If the spill produced during the existence of the company "Coca-Cola" in the jar volume a little more than 200 ml and put them out of the track, its length will exceed 2000 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
8. How much is the Coca-Cola brand
At Coca-Cola today is estimated at 83, 8 billion dollars. This is more than, for example, the value of the companies KFC, Subway, Pepsi and Budweiser together.
9. The word, of course all
The company claims that the word "Coca-Cola" is the most understood by people all over the world, after the word "OK».
10. Where "Cola" love the most
Many tend to think that most of all Coca-Cola drinks, US residents. However, it is not. Leaders in the use of sweet drinks is neighboring Mexico. The average Mexican drinks for the year of about 745 cans of "cola". The indicator in the States is much more modest - about 400.
11. The concept coupon
The company is convinced that it is thanks to her world appeared concept coupon (coupon for a free product). The grounds to make such statements by the manufacturer is. The first coupons - they can be exchanged for a free glass of soda - Coca-Cola began to produce in 1887. They looked so.
Get a coupon for a free drink consumers could in several ways: by e-mail or cut from a magazine. According to the company's management, this is the reception offered at the time the producer of sweet drink wildly popular and helped to enter the foreign market.
< 12. The appearance of Santa Claus
A colleague of Santa Claus Santa with its modern appearance is obliged designer Coca-Cola Haddon Sundblom. It was he who in 1931 painted a cheerful old wizard with a fluffy white beard and red suit. After the bright New Year's character appeared on posters, Christmas campaign "Coca-Cola", launched in 1921, began to gain popularity. Interestingly, 90% of Americans believe that the Coca-Cola company came up with the character of Santa Claus, rather than its modern image.
13. Boycott the Olympics and
In 1980, when the US government decided to boycott the Olympics in the Soviet Union, a manufacturer of sweet drinks has decided not to join the action (apparently for financial reasons), and became a partner in a sporting event. It was in that year, the majority of residents of the Union for the first time tasted the drink.
14. The first in space
In 1985, Coca-Cola was the first soft drink, which hit the space. Soda manufacturer developed a special bank with a special "tube" for astronauts. Know-how has been tested by the crew of the shuttle Challenger. Later Coca-Cola in a jar has repeatedly brought to the station
«World».
15. The ideal temperature of the beverage
The manufacturer of the famous soda argues that the ideal temperature, "Coca-Cola" for use - by 1, 1 to 3, 3 degrees Celsius
.
There is another curious fact the manufacturer, however, not confirmed. Its reliability, scientists from the University of Michigan insist (USA). According to them, sweet drinks (Coca-Cola and refers precisely to this beverage group) can cause addiction comparable to drug. According to the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) sweet soda scored 3, 29 points.
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