COCA-COLA CO.

SALARY

• CEO (Muhtar Kent) made $20.4 million last year
• Delivery driver: $19,975- $57,191
• Operations manager: $61,053- $182,591

HEALTH INITIATIVE

• Has donated appr. $120 million in past five years towards academic research, partnerships with medical groups, and community fitness programs

In 2015, coca-cola financially backed scientists who believed that to maintain a healthy weight, get more exercise and worry less about calories.

WATER ISSUES

• Company uses dwindling groundwater reserves
• Big issue in India, due to droughts only broken by erratic monsoons
• Farmers continue to protest

UNIONS VS. COKE

• In the 80s, attempts to unionize Coca-Cola’s sweatshop-style bottling plants have been repeatedly sabotaged in Columbia and Guatemala
• Sabotaged = workers have been kidnapped, murdered, threatened

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN

• Recently introduced PlantBottle, a partially bio-plastic bottle that is up to 30% plant material and 100% recyclable.
• Some drinks contain Truvia, a natural, no-calorie sweetener.
• through an engagement with Greenpeace, Coca-Cola recently committed to eliminate the use of hydrofluorocarbon gases in all its new vending machines and coolers by 2015

GRADE: C

OUR OPINION

SOURCES

• http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/29/muhtar-kent-coca-cola-leadership-citizensh...
• http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/coke-discloses-millions-in-grants-...
• http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c0c15728e6054fdcb9867c9bc1eaa71f/coke-suspen...
• http://killercoke.org/resolution_usascal.php

SOURCES CONT.

• http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=The_Coca-Cola_Company/Salary/b...
• http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/03/07/coke-ceo-muhtar-kent-get...
• http://culturewarreporters.com/2013/11/26/shame-day-nike-nestle-coca-cola-2...