Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. is among 60 major corporations that have the launched the Business Coalition for Equity Act, which is to promote passage of civil rights legislation that seeks to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
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Coca-Cola historic marker to be installed at Five Points, at site of first Coke sale
Downtown Atlanta, which for years was bereft of any historic signs to mark the city as the launch pad for the Coca-Cola Co., is poised to get another Coke marker to join the neon sign atop the Olympia Building.
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Commentary: Women executives, board members make gains in Ga.
OnBoard has just completed its 2015 study with some surprising results. And the business climate in Georgia is looking favorable for women executives.
OnBoard is an organization that has been keeping track of the progress of women on corporate boards and in executive positions in Georgia for 23 years.
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Coca-Cola merger plans create uncertainty for Atlanta
Original Story on WABE by Maria Saporta
What a week for the Coca-Cola Company! First, Coca-Cola Enterprises announced a merger that will lead to Atlanta having one less Fortune 500 company but would make the company the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola’s products. Then the Coca-Cola company announced a new president and COO, a […]
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NCR’s virtual shareholders meeting has real-world implications
Original Story by Maria Saporta on WABE Play Audio When NCR ─ a Fortune 500 company based in Gwinnett County ─ held its annual meeting last Wednesday, the only way one could participate was online. It’s the first time in Georgia’s history a major public company held a virtual annual meeting. So NCR shareholders were […]
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Photo Pick: Olympia Building Rehab By Wendy Darling
Wendy has been capturing photos showing progress on the rehab work underway at the Olympia Building, located right at Five Points in Downtown. By the end of 2015, this historic building will have a new use as a Walgreen’s.
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Remembering Don Keough, former president of the Coca-Cola Co.
By Maria Saporta >> Original Story from WABE They just don’t make them like they used to. Don Keough’s services attracted an overflowing crowd of admirers – including Warren Buffett, Jack Welch, Roger Goodell, Chicago’s Richard Daley, Sam Nunn, Louis Sullivan and top leaders from around the world. Why? For many, Keough was the human face of […]
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Hooked on Soda
As part of his doctoral dissertation, Sunder has developed a formula to measure the customer lifetime value (CLV) of carbonated beverage consumers.
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Coke meets with human rights advocates who seek new practices for giving, diversity in Brazil
The Coca-Cola Co. has agreed to continue discussions with an Atlanta-based human rights group, led by veteran advocate Joe Beasley, to consider expanding Coke’s philanthropic and diversity practices in Brazil, advocates said Sunday.
Top Coke officials met with the advocates Friday and agreed to convene a tele-conference this week, advocates said Sunday. The Coke representatives who attended Friday’s meeting reportedly included Alexander Cummings, chief administrative officer, and Lisa Borders, chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation. Coke did not respond to a request for comment that was submitted Friday.
“We’re calling for Coke to have a reciprocal relationship with its most loyal consumers in Brazil,” Beasley said in a statement, referring to Brazil’s population of nearly 100 million Afro-descendants.
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Meredith Leapley’s Moment was when her father closed his firm, sparking her to just start her own
By Chris Schroder
Meredith Leapley’s Moment happened when the phone rang in 1999. Having moved to Atlanta from Maryland just a year earlier to run a branch of her father’s construction company, her heart sank when he called with some disappointing and life-changing news.
“My father called me and told me he was going to close our business and I was going to have to come back home to Maryland,” she said.
Still in her mid-20s, Meredith felt as though she was just establishing herself in Atlanta. In that year, she had grown so fond of her new city that she resolved to make a bet on it, deciding instead to stay and start her own construction business here.
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CARE USA’s Helene Gayle of Atlanta to join board of the Coca-Cola Co.
By Maria Saporta
Just one day after the announcement that two legendary Atlanta directors were not standing for re-election to the Coca-Cola Co. board, it was announced that Dr. Helene Gayle, president and CEO of Atlanta-based CARE USA would be joining the board at the company’s annual meeting in April.
Gayle, 57, leads one of the world’s leading international humanitarian organizations whose poverty fighting programs reached about 122 million people in 84 countries last year, according to the company’s press release.
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Two key Atlanta directors — Keough and Williams — leaving Coke’s board
By Maria Saporta
The Coca-Cola Co.’s link to Atlanta will change after the company’s annual meeting in April.
Two of its key directors — Donald R. Keough and James B. Williams — will not be standing for re-election, marking a new chapter for the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co.
Both Keough and Williams, who both are seasoned Atlanta executives, have had ties to the company for decades. In fact, both were associated with the company from the days when Robert W. Woodruff, the long-time leader of the company, was in charge.
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Inside Atlanta PR
Rob Baskin on What Clients Really Want – and, yes, he should know. Rob Baskin has worked on all sides of the PR equation: as a reporter, a client and now as president of the Atlanta office of Weber Shandwick, a global PR agency with offices in 81 countries. “I’m equally comfortable on either side […]
