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The Coca-Cola Company

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The Resume

    (1892- )
    Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia
    Coca-Cola invented by John Pemberton (1886)
    Certified kosher by Rabbi Tobias Geffen (1935)
    Products include Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Cherry, Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola, New Coke, Coca-Cola Vanilla, Coca-Cola with Lime, Tab, Sprite, Fanta, Minute Maid, Nestea, Powerade and Dasani

Why The Coca-Cola Company might be annoying:

    The original recipe of their signature drink contained cocaine.
    It was originally marketed as a cure of all sorts of diseases.
    They mostly sell sugar water.
    They are contributing to the obesity and diabetes epidemics.
    The company launched New Coke as an alternative to its old formula causing a backlash so intense that they immediately brought back the old formula.
    Their advertising goal is to have everyone on Earth drink Coca-Cola as their beverage of choice.
    Three times they had the opportunity to buy out their biggest competitor Pepsi Cola and they declined the offer (1922-1931).
    For some reason it purchased movie studio Columbia Pictures (1982).

Why The Coca-Cola Company might not be annoying:

    The 'contour bottle' designed by Earl R. Dean is one of the most recognizable bottles in the world.
    Their commercial 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing' spawned a hit single.
    It intervened to allow an interracial celebration in Atlanta of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize win.
    Coca-Cola was rated as the world's most valuble brand by Interbrand (2011).

Credit: D & Captain Howdy


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 166 Votes: 60.24% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 181 Votes: 55.80% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 350 Votes: 53.71% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 265 Votes: 52.83% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 435 Votes: 60.23% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 105 Votes: 58.10% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 16 Votes: 43.75% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 25 Votes: 52.00% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 38 Votes: 55.26% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 112 Votes: 61.61% Annoying