How Coca Cola Started Grew Became 180 Billion Company

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16 Jul 2021

John S Pemberton first produced the drink Coca-Cola in 1866 It is quite interesting that one of the highly purchased beverages in the world with about 1 9 million servings sold daily was initially created as an alternative to morphine a pain reliever Pemberton was a colonel in the confederate during the American Civil war as well as a pharmacist He sustained a saber injury from the war in April 1865 and was prescribed morphine to relieve his pain Pemberton soon realized that he was becoming addicted to the morphine and decided to prepare an alternative that did not contain morphine To achieve this he experimented with different pain relievers After a few trials Pemberton came up with an alcoholic wine that he called Pemberton s French Wine Coca This drink was a mix of cocaine extracted from coca leaves and caffeine from kola nut Pemberton registered this French wine in 1885