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• ‘‘fountain syrups’’ means syrups that are sold to fountain retailers, such as restaurants, that use dispensing
equipment to mix the syrups with sparkling or still water at the time of purchase to produce finished
beverages that are served in cups or glasses for immediate consumption;
• ‘‘sparkling beverages’’ means nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverages with carbonation, including energy
drinks and waters and flavored waters with carbonation;
• ‘‘still beverages’’ means nonalcoholic beverages without carbonation, including waters and flavored
waters without carbonation, juice and juice drinks, teas, coffees and sports drinks; and
• ‘‘Company Trademark Beverages’’ means beverages bearing our trademarks and certain other beverage
products licensed to us for which we provide marketing support and from the sale of which we derive
income.
We sell the concentrates and syrups for bottled and canned beverages to authorized bottling and canning
operations. In addition to concentrates and syrups for sparkling beverages and flavored still beverages, we also
sell concentrates (in powder form) for purified water products such as Dasani to authorized bottling operations.
Authorized bottlers and canners either combine our syrups with sparkling water or combine our
concentrates with sweeteners (depending on the product), water and sparkling water to produce finished
sparkling beverages. The finished sparkling beverages are packaged in authorized containers bearing our
trademarks—such as cans and refillable and nonrefillable glass and plastic bottles (‘‘bottle/can products’’)—and
are then sold to retailers (‘‘bottle/can retailers’’) or, in some cases, wholesalers.
For our fountain products in the United States, we manufacture fountain syrups and sell them to authorized
fountain wholesalers and some fountain retailers. The wholesalers are authorized to sell the Company’s fountain
syrups by a nonexclusive appointment from us that neither restricts us in setting the prices at which we sell
fountain syrups to the wholesalers, nor restricts the territory in which the wholesalers may resell in the United
States. Outside the United States, fountain syrups typically are manufactured by authorized bottlers from
concentrates sold to them by the Company. The bottlers then typically sell the fountain syrups to wholesalers or
directly to fountain retailers.
Finished beverages manufactured by us include a variety of sparkling and still beverages. We sell most of
these beverages to authorized bottlers or distributors, who in turn sell these products to retailers or, in some
cases, wholesalers. We manufacture and sell juice and juice-drink products and certain water products to
retailers and wholesalers in the United States and numerous other countries, both directly and through a
network of business partners, including certain Coca-Cola bottlers.
Our beverage products include Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Classic, caffeine free Coca-Cola, caffeine free
Coca-Cola Classic, Cherry Coke, Diet Coke (sold under the trademark Coca-Cola Light in many countries other
than the United States), caffeine free Diet Coke, Diet Coke Sweetened with Splenda, Diet Coke with Lime, Diet
Cherry Coke, Black Cherry Vanilla Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero (sold under the trademark Coke Zero in some
countries), Fanta brand sparkling beverages, Sprite, Diet Sprite/Sprite Zero (sold under the trademark Sprite
Light in many countries other than the United States), Sprite Remix, Pibb Xtra, Mello Yello, Tab, Fresca brand
sparkling beverages, Barq’s, Powerade, Minute Maid brand sparkling beverages, Aquarius, Sokenbicha, Ciel,
Bonaqa/Bonaqua, Dasani, Dasani brand flavored waters, Lift, Thums Up, Kinley, Eight O’Clock, Qoo, Vault,
Full Throttle and other products developed for specific countries (including Georgia brand ready-to-drink
coffees). In many countries (excluding the United States, among others), our Company’s beverage products also
include Schweppes, Canada Dry, Dr Pepper and Crush. Our Company produces, distributes and markets juice
and juice-drink products including Minute Maid Premium juice and juice drinks, Simply juices and juice drinks,
Odwalla nourishing health beverages, Five Alive refreshment beverages, Bacardi mixers concentrate
(manufactured and marketed under license agreements from Bacardi & Company Limited) and Hi-C
ready-to-serve juice drinks. We have a license to manufacture and sell concentrates for Seagram’s mixers, a line
of sparkling drinks, in the United States and certain other countries. Our Company is the exclusive master
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