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Secret Formula
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Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion. Award-winning reporter Frederick Allen’s engaging account begins with Asa Candler, a nineteenth-century pharmacist in Atlanta who secured the rights to the original Coca-Cola formula and then struggled to get the cocaine out of the recipe. After many tweaks, he finally succeeded in turning a backroom belly-wash into a thriving enterprise. In 1919, an aggressive banker named Ernest Woodruff leveraged a high-risk buyout of the Candlers and installed his son at the helm of the company. Robert Woodruff spent the next six decades guiding Coca-Cola with a single-minded determination that turned the soft drink into a part of the landscape and social fabric of America. Written with unprecedented access to Coca-Cola’s archives, as well as the inner circle and private papers of Woodruff, Allen’s captivating business biography stands as the definitive account of what it took to build America’s most iconic company and one of the world’s greatest business success stories.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
514
Release Date:
2015-10-27
Publication Date:
2015-10-27
Publisher:
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1504019857
ISBN13:
9781504019859
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Weight:
641 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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