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COLA numbers for 2018 haven't been released as of this writing, but it's widely expected there will be around a 2percentt increase for 2018 (as opposed to 0.3percentt for 2017, and zero percent for 2016).
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The results are particularly encouraging for Pepsi as they show strong growth at a time when archrival Coca-Cola's number-one bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises, is struggling.
For it turns out that as real growth was slowing, Coca-Cola was "making its numbers" by exploiting the big bottling companies that it controlled.
The researchers, from Oxford and Reading, say a tax set at 20%, which would put 12p on a 60p can of cola, would reduce the number of obese UK adults by 180,000, a fall of 1.3%.
Coca-Cola is the number one soft drink in the world because they focus on what made them great.
Pepsi-Cola is not number one because they focused on tacos and pizza….Kodak's situation is reminiscent of the strategic fiascos of Xerox.
"I've never seen so many faulty decisions in such a short time at Coke," says Emanuel Goldman, a beverage-industry analyst who has covered Coca-Cola for a number of firms over the past 30 years and now works for himself.
That kind of name recognition is something Buffett looks for when seeking companies with a durable competitive advantage, and the numbers indicate Coca-Cola does indeed have such an advantage its average return on equity over the past 10 years is 29.3%, nearly doubling my Buffett-based model's 15% target.
Thus we get ridiculous numbers such as Coca-Cola's audited figures.
During her tenure, Coca-Cola's stock price doubled while Pepsi stagnated, even losing its number-two position in the cola market to Diet Coke in 2010.
Cook also noted that this includes 40,000 Coca-Cola vending machines, a number that should increase to 100,000 by the end of the year.
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