The Coca-Cola Company (KO) is the world’s largest beverage distributer, and through brands like Coke, Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite, it delivers over 3% of all drinks consumed globally every day.

Coca-Cola was invented in 1986 by a pharmacist in Columbus, Georgia, who began selling it to soda fountains, the History Channel reported. Six years later, the Coca-Cola Company was founded.

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Coca-Cola enjoys a stock-market history as rich as its cultural legacy, though recent changes in consumer tastes will require the company to adjust its business to remain successful.

The Coca-Cola Company (KO) is the world’s largest beverage distributer, and through brands like Coke, Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite, it delivers over 3% of all drinks consumed globally every day.

Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi can trace their origins back to the 1890s, and the two sodas seemed to be able to peacefully co-exist until nearly a century later. But in the 1980s, the companies began ...