The coke way of life.

COCA-cola have been one of the most successfull drinks ever developed in the business of consumer beverage, it's history and company culture drive people more and more to this kind of drinks. Undeniably, Coke have now dominate the beverage market, not even pepsi-cola can stand in it's way.

a quote from one of the director manager of COKE:

" coke will soon replace the daily drinks of any man and woman"

Frankly, i found it scarry, imagine opening your fridge just to realize everything is nothing but coke....eventually water cooler will be spilling out coke hot and cold....what a nightmare...

As a company that have sustain more than 100years, just like it's fellow giants siemens and general electrics, we cannot help but agree that coke have run a long way, just to reach this point. seems like nothing can actually slow this giant down. I've read an article that reserach on all those mega-corp (most of them US), even if you burn down all their factories and company of coca-cola, their company will rise from the ashes and start all-over again in 1 night. This is how strong tehir sompany are, having said that, this is actually how all the giant company works, they make sure their people live up to the spirit of coke, and live with it. No wonder Coke was never seen as a weaker apponent in the beverage industry. and here are some figures to prove my point.

2008 Financial Highlights:

1, Portfolio includes 13 billion dollar brands.

2, Unit case volume grew 5% to 23.7 billion unit cases worldwi de.

3, Net operating revenues grew 11% to $31.9 billion.

4, More than 70% of our net operating revenues and more than 75% of our unit case volume were generated outside of North America.

However, despite the healthy growth and sustainable remarks in this industry, we cannot help but admit that coke does reflect some health disorder issues. the picture below will clear what i'm gona said, sugar content of diffrent food you consume everyday.

healthy high fibre oat cereal - 1 cube sugar content

Prego spaggheti sos - 1.5 cube sugar content

Pineapple - 2.5 cube sugar content

Watermellon - 4.5 cube sugar content

Orange - 6 cube sugar content

Concentrated Orange juice - 12 cube sugar content

COKE 330ml - 10 cube sugar content

COKE 600ml - 16.5 cube sugar content

COKE 1500ml - 27.5 cube sugar content

with all the fuss about coke causing diebetic and blood clog, one cannot help but to think it's logic. 

YES, coke is an incredible company that produce drinks that dominates the taste buds of our own, but. 

NO, it is not suitable to make it an everyday drinks that can replace your daily H2O. and i can't imagine if that happens. 

After finish this posting, i cant help but to take a picture of my "personal" coke legacy, (it's not that i hate coke, i drink coke once a while), and heck ! it's still taste great ! 

p.s.

i manage to collect most of this can from ASIA, like japan, thailand, hong-kong, and China. i'm desperately exploring my way to collect all this coke can from around the world. my friends find it easy to get me a souvenior, a COKE is enough to make me satisfy.....=)