COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO.

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'Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated' is the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in the United States.
It produces, markets, and distributes nonalcoholic beverages, primarily products of the Coca-Cola Company.
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, a Delaware corporation, was incorporated in 1980, but its lineage dates to 1902. The first Coca-Cola Bottling Company was founded in 1899 by three Chattanooga, Tennessee entrepreneurs, Benjamin F. Thomas, Joseph B. Whitehead, and John T. Lupton who had obtained exclusive bottling rights from Asa Candler, president of the Coca-Cola Company. In 1900, Thomas, Whitehead, and Lupton divided the business into three regional companies with each company having exclusive rights to either the eastern, southern, or western United States. The regional companies were then sub-divided even further with both corporate-owned and franchise bottlers. The current company is the modern-day survivor of one of these sub-regionals that grew through various mergers and acquisitions over the intervening decades.
The Coca-Cola Company owns approximately 27.3% of the company's stock.

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