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How the world's most popular brands started
How the world's most popular brands started
Coca Cola 1) Coca-Cola According Secret Formula, a book written by reporter Frederick Allen, the world's most famous soft drink was named after two of its ingredients - the coca leaf and the kola nut. 2) Coca-Cola The earliest purpose of the drink was actually medicinal, marketed as a cure for 'nervous prostration, irregularities of the stomach, bowels and kidneys'. 3) Coca-Cola It was created by pharmacist John Pemberton, who was seeking to cure his own addiction to morphine. Pemberton's business partner, later named the drink Coca-Cola and wrote its name for the bottles and advertisements in the now famous cursive script. 4) Coca-Cola The business was later bought and Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles in 1894. While it used to contain trace amounts of cocaine, it has been cocaine-free since 1929. |
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