The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company of non-alcoholic beverages. Invented by John Stith Pemberton in 1886 in Georgia, it was bottled for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1894. Coca-Cola offers nearly 400 brands today, and it is available in over 200 countries.
Aggressive in its marketing campaigns, their ad agency created numerous pin-up ads, and further cementing the modern image of Santa Claus in popular culture with their annual Christmas advertisements.
Based on the ongoing CGI Polar Bear commercials, Jim Henson's Creature Shop built a full body puppet of the Coca-Cola Polar Bear for Coca-Cola promotional appearances. They later modified the design and created additional suits for the World of Coca-Cola museum located in Atlanta, Georgia.
==References==
* Coca-Cola is one of the many ideas of Limbo in the short film "The Idea Man."
* In an early IBM Meeting Film, Grump complains that after the meeting, the coffee will be cold and the Cokes will be warm.
* Beginning with the Sesame Street Test Show 1, an action film shows circles in everyday life, from Coca-Cola bottle caps, to moving wheels, to yo-yos, bubbles, and balloons, set to a lively soundtrack. The film continued to be shown during the early seasons of the show.
* A Coca-Cola sign appears in Hooper's Store during the first season of Sesame Street.
* A Coca-Cola box is used for an audience seat in Episode 0560 of Sesame Street.
* In a Sesame Street spoof of the famous commercial featuring Mean Joe Green, a football player named "Big Murray" (Gordon) accepts a number 7 from a young fan, whom he rewards with a towel that also has a 7 on it. 
*A Coca-Cola can is seen next to Janice as she tans in The Great Muppet Caper.
* Miss Piggy's Calendar of Calendars featured a spoof of the Haddon Sundblom pin-up ads, with Miss Piggy as a gas station attendant.
* In episode 424 of The Muppet Show, Fozzie Bear makes a joke that Kermit's favorite drink is "Croak-a-Cola".
* Coca-Cola products are amongst those sold by vendors at the Bogen County Fair as seen in The Muppet Movie. Coke cans are also seen dragging behind the car at the end of Piggy's dream sequence during "Never Before, Never Again."
* Pete's Luncheonette in The Muppets Take Manhattan has a Coke soda fountain and a Coca-Cola sign on the wall.
* In Follow That Bird some Coca-Cola cans can be seen when Telly is carrying the cans to Oscar.
* A Coca-Cola dispenser is seen in the hallway of the Muppets' research center in Muppet*Vision 3D.
* A Coca-Cola can is among the other containers that adorns Oscar's trash can when his mother visits in Sesame Street Episode 2915.
* In The Muppets, '80s Robot offers Kermit's guests a Tab (owned by The Coca-Cola Company) or New Coke.
* Gonzo drinks Diet Coke in The Muppets episode "Going, Going, Gonzo".
==Premiums==
* In 1991, Coca-Cola cans were sold branded with the Sesame Place logo. The can could be presented at the Sesame Place ticket booth to receive a $3 discount on admission to the park. 
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==Connections==
* Max Headroom was a spokesman for New Coke in a series of commercials
* "Weird Al" Yankovic appeared in a Diet Coke commercial in 1984
==External links==
* Official site
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