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Shvoong Home>Writing & Speaking>These Countries Refuse to Selling Coca-Cola Summary

These Countries Refuse to Selling Coca-Cola

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Atlanta - After nearly 60 years, an American soft drink, Coca-Cola, sold again in Myanmar. Coca-Cola, which sells 1.8 billion bottles per day, start doing the first delivery to Myanmar on Monday and will begin local production.

According to the author of the book A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage, the introduction of Coca-Cola into a state sends a powerful symbol of U.S. relations with that country. "When Coca-Cola began shipping to a country is when you can say there might be a real change going on there (the country)," he said. "Coca-Cola is capitalism in a bottle."

Now there are only two countries where Coca-Cola is not officially be bought or sold, namely Cuba and North Korea. This is due to the trade embargo from the United States. Coca-Cola said that if there are drinks sold in these countries, they came through "unauthorized third party".

Cuba is actually one of the first three countries outside the United States that sells coke, Coca-cola another term, in 1906. However, the company moved since Fidel Castro's government began to seize private assets in 1960 and never returned.

In North Korea, free zone other Coca-Cola, recently a report says that soft drinks are sold in a restaurant in Pyongyang. However, Coca-Cola said that if there are drinks sold, either in North Korea or Cuba, it means that the drink was smuggled through the black market, not through official channels.

Carbonated beverage was created in 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia. Coca-Cola to actively sell products to foreign countries in the early years of its development. In the early 1900s, this drink has spread across Asia and Europe.

However, the big boost came as a result of World War II, when Coca-Cola was given to U.S. troops overseas. There are more than 60 military bottling plant for Coca-Cola in the world during the war.

Dwight Eisenhower, the then supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe, claiming to be a fan of Coca-Cola and he ensured the availability of the drink was in North Africa. He also introduced this drink to the general Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, who asked Coca-Cola with the same color of vodka.

During the Cold War, Coca-Cola became a symbol of capitalism and the faultline between capitalism and communism, said Bruce Webster, brand consultant who has worked with Coca-Cola.

"Coca-Cola is not sold in the Soviet Union because of the fear that the profits will go directly to the communist government coffers," Standage said. Pepsi fill the gap and are sold in the country.

When the Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, many East German citizens to buy Coca-Cola, said Standage. "Drink Coca-Cola became a symbol of freedom."

Coca-Cola is not trying to get involved in politics, according to Webster. However, as a great brand that is closely associated with the United States, sometimes Coca-Cola is also entangled in politics.

In 2003, protesters in Thailand pour Coca-Cola on the streets during a demonstration against the U.S. invasion of Iraq. While sales to this country were halted.

Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has threatened to ban Coca-Cola and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez recently urged people to drink locally made fruit juice instead of drinking Coca-Cola or Pepsi.

Approximately 126 years after his birth, Coca-Cola still moncer of the sale. Standage claimed Coca-Cola market is growing in India, China, and Brazil.
Published: September 12, 2012   
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