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Coca-Cola was first enjoyed in Great Britain over 100 years ago
and is the number one carbonated soft drink in the country
• Coca-Cola first came to
Great Britain in 1900, when
Charles Candler, son of the
Company’s founder, Asa
Candler, brought a jug of
Coca-Cola syrup to
•
England on a holiday visit.
It was first sold regularly
in Great Britain through
soda fountain outlets,
which included Selfridges
and The London Coliseum,
in the early 1920s.
Acquisitions
In 1999 The Coca-Cola Company
purchased the soft drinks brands of
Cadbury Schweppes plc in various
countries including Great Britain which
resulted in the
extension of our
existing product
range diet Coke,
Cherry Coke, Fanta,
Sprite, Lilt and
Five Alive to include
the Schweppes
range, Dr Pepper,
Oasis, Kia-Ora and
Malvern water.
Manufacturing
• The Coca-Cola Company
began bottling in Great
Britain in a small plant
in Brighton in 1932 and
by 1939 there were seven
bottling plants across
the country.
• In 1961 Coca-Cola was first
marketed in cans, filled by
local contract canners.
Then in 1976, the first Company canning plant was
•opened in Milton Keynes.
At that time, the plant was at the forefront of
technology, capable of filling 1,500 cans per
minute. Today, our bottler has seven cans lines
which, if all running at the same time, would
produce over 11,000 cans a minute.
Coca-Cola has been advertising at Piccadilly Circus
since 1954, with the most recent innovation to the
present site taking place in 1998, when state-ofthe-art
technology was introduced. In Dec 2002,
Coca-Cola Great Britain announced the intention
to more than double the size of the sign.