Coca-Cola (ranked 39) operates in nearly 200 countries.
Positive brokerage notes helped blue chips, with Boeing, Walt Disney and Coca-Cola ranking among the Dow's top gainers.
"The ranking will be based on the FIFA/Coca-Cola world ranking published on October 17, 2013.
These days Coca-Cola is regularly ranked as one of the top, if not the top, global brands.
After watching this game, you almost scoff at Brazil's ranking of 22nd overall in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking System (Spain is ranked number one).
Four of its member companies are ranked in the report: General Mills, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Brown Forman.
Case in point is the brand that ranked No. 1 on the list for the 13th consecutive year, Coca-Cola.
A recent survey from Interbrand, a brand consulting firm, ranked Intel as the seventh-best global brand, just behind companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
And ranked by cultural influence, it has to be put in the top three along with Coca-Cola and perhaps General Motors.
Bryant, who ranked No. 25 on the 2001 edition of the Forbes Celebrity 100, enjoys other endorsement deals including with McDonald's and for Coca-Cola's Sprite brand.
He has specialized in Soviet commercial and industrial transactions for over 20 years and has represented McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Levi Strauss, Rank Xerox, Pechiney, Kobe Steel, and other multinational companies.
