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From: silber@lasspvax.UUCP (Jeffrey Silber)
Newsgroups: net.misc.coke
Subject: Re: The real choice
Message-ID: <398@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 09:37:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 09:37:54 1985
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In article <487@rdin.UUCP> perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) writes:
>While I agree that Coke is now in competition with itself to
>a greater degree than ever before, let us not forget that Coke
>has been in competition with itself for quite a while.  Dr. Pepper,
>the advertising for which is overtly anti-cola, is a product
>of the Coca-Cola company!  Coke also makes many other soft drinks
>that you have to look at the label with a magnifying glass to
>find out that they are made by Coke.
>
>Robert Perlberg

Note:  Dr. Pepper is not a Coca-Cola product.  Nor is Sunkist, Welch's, or
many other items that are bottled by Coca-Cola bottlers.  Unlike Pepsi, which
owns 1/3 of their bottlers, Coke does not own their bottling companies.  They
have on occasion bought some of them to resell to friendly corporations, but
they have no interest in the bottling business.  The bottlers, as independent
businesses, are free to bottle other products (within the limits established
by their contract with Coke -- they cannot bottle another Cola, for example).

Also, in response to another question, Coca-Cola owned Taylor Wines and a few
others, but sold the group (called Wine Spectrum) to Seagrams several months
ago.  Incidentally, Seagrams mixers, bottled by Coca-Cola bottlers in many
areas are not owned by Coca-Cola, but at least one Coca-Cola bottler does
own part of the brand.