Coca-Cola

In 1919, Ernest Woodruff led a group of investors in purchasing the Coca-Cola Company from Asa Candler.

In 1886, when John Pemberton first sold his refreshing new beverage in Jacob’s Pharmacy at the corner of Peachtree and Marietta Streets, few could have guessed what a world-wide phenomenon it would become.

In 1912, lawyer Harold Hirsch issued a call to glass companies across the U.S. to develop a product “so distinct that you would recognize it by feel in the dark or laying broken on the ground.”