Coca-Cola’s Birthday
29.03.2021 | 15:45 |
Exactly 135 years ago, on March 29, it was created a recipe for a popular drink – Coca-Cola.
In March 1886, in Atlanta, Colonel John Stith Pemberton, a pharmacist by education, was trying to find a palliative for headaches. For this purpose, he brewed an unusual caramel-colored syrup.
The recipe of the drink included a decoction of coca leaves, sugar and caffeine – because of its effect, the drink turned out to be quite stimulating.
The syrup was sweet and thick – Mr. Pemberton rather appreciated the taste of his creation. He decided to sell it through Jacobs Pharmacy. The first servings of syrup were sold here for five cents a glass. At first, the coca was sold out for nine glasses a day.
Later, carbonated water was added to the drink. Around the same time, the drink was called Coca-Cola. The name and the original font were coined by Frank Robinson, a friend and partner of John Pemberton.
After Pemberton’s death, successful businessman Asa Candler purchased a Coca-Cola recipe from his widow for $ 2,300. And then Candler placed the drink in a metal bowl, in which he brewed it together with his own patented Plant Blood Balm. For the next ten years, Coca-Cola was strengthened in the name of medicinal drink. And on January 31, 1893, the Coca-Cola trademark was officially registered in the United States.
By the way, it was in the same 1893 a young pharmacist from New Bern, Caleb Bradham, conducted an experiment to create a pharmaceutical mixture of carbonated water, sugar, vanilla, rare oils and cola nuts. This unusual mixture under the unvoiced name Brad’s drink began to be sold in pharmacies as a laughing, strengthening and digestive drink. Five years after the invention, Mr. Bradham gave the drink a new name – Pepsi-Cola and registered it as a trademark. The name was made up of the names of the ingredients – pepsin (a digestive enzyme) and kola nut.
Four years later, in 1902, Caleb Bradham organized the Pepsi-Cola Company. And for more than a century, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola have been fighting for the title of the most popular drink in the world.
The Turkmenistan Coca-Cola Bottlers Business Company, located in Ashgabat and producing Coca-Cola Classic, Coca-Cola Şekersiz, Fanta Mandarin and Sprite beverages, has been functioning in Turkmenistan for a long time. The plant has been operating since 1998 and is the official bottler of the Coca-Cola company. Working directly with distributors, it provides with its products more than 11,000 sales outlets throughout Turkmenistan.
