A "highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche" (Publishers Weekly). Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion.
For over 125 years, Coca-Cola has managed to keep its recipe secret. Many other rivals attempted to hack the Coca-Cola formula, but their efforts were futile. As per myth, only two people have ever seen the secret recipe. But, regardless of how many individuals have seen the recipe, one thing is certain: the corporation has gone above and
Indeed, many an urban myth surrounds the secret recipe for the number one soft drink in the world. One pervasive story is that the formula is known only by two men, and each man only knows half of the formula, that way neither can abscond with the knowledge. The truth is far less of a logistical nightmare.
The History of the Formula There are some variations of how the story of the formula goes but the company has its own version of it. The drink's original inventor John Pemberton created the drink in 1886 and had shared the recipe with only a couple of people before his death in 1888.
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