Coca-Cola Bottling Plant History
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Chattanooga Coca-Cola Bottling Plant;
This particular Coca-Cola Bottling Plant is Very Historical, in the fact that it was the First Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in the World to be Franchised.
July 21, 1899, Chattanooga attorneys Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead, signed an agreement with Asa Candler, the President of the Coca-Cola Company. In which they would receive the Exclusive Rights to bottle Coca Cola. Which soon was being sold throughout most of the United States. Shortly there-after, Chattanooga Attorney, John Thomas Lupton, [1862–1933] , became the third partner. By September of 1899 the Coca Cola Plant opened at 17 Market Street. That was when the First Advertisement appeared. Offering Coca-Cola in bottles. This was the turning point, from Coca Cola being served at the drugstore counters, to being a National and a International SodaPop.
Considered the Parent Coca-Cola Bottling Company, to all other Coca-Cola Plants. Chartered in Tennessee on November 30, 1899. The December inaugural meeting of the company Directors, Whitehead was chosen as the first President, with Thomas Lupton being vice-president, and Benjamin Thomas as the Secretary/Treasurer. As Treasurer, Benjamin Thomas would over-see the business on a daily basis. It was in early 1900, that Joseph Whitehead moved to Atlanta, and opened a second Coca-Cola Bottling Plant.
Within a short period, it had become obvious that they needed to create a franchise system to expand as rapidly as the contract with Candler required. The territory was split between the partners. Which Thomas received control of a good portion of the Eastern U.S., from Chattanooga Northward, to include California, Oregon, and Washington. Whitehead and Lupton had shared the rest of the U.S., mostly the South and West. Each had established Parent Bottlers, who then granted franchises to local bottlers in their area. Thomas' Company, rechartered in 1900 as Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and had kept the headquarters in Chattanooga.
Then in 1902, Thomas had sold the Chattanooga Plant, in order to build his franchise. Making this, "The First Franchised Coca-Cola Bottler in the World" - Which still operates as the Chattanooga Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Hereafter, the parent bottling companies did not actually bottle anything but acted as middlemen, buying syrup from the Atlanta Coca-Cola Company and selling it to the franchise bottlers in their territory. By the 1950s there were some eleven hundred franchises descended from the parent bottlers. Beginning in the 1920s, the Coca-Cola Company began a long and expensive process of buying back all the bottling franchise rights Candler had sold in 1899 for one dollar. The corporation repurchased Coca-Cola Bottling Company (Thomas) in 1974 and the Lupton interests in 1986.
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"The Root Glass Company originated as Root Glass Works in Vigo County, Indiana. Businessman and Pennsylvania native Chapman J. Root (November 22, 1864 - November 20, 1945) opened the original glass company on May 27, 1901, at Third and Voorhees Streets a year after he moved to the city of Terre Haute, Indiana. By 1904 the company was manufacturing beverage bottles for Coca-Cola as well as several other beverage companies in the area. Between 1905 and 1912 the Root Glass Company workforce increased from 600 to 825 employees."
_________________________________ "In 1915, Root's company entered a Coca-Cola contest to design and exclusively manufacturer a "new bottle, a distinctive package" for Coca-Cola. Chapman J. Root formed a design team for the contest consisting of plant supervisor Alexander Samuelson, auditor Clyde Edwards, and staff machinist Earl R. Dean. The now world wide "Contour Bottle" icon was then patterned after the cocoa plant pod that was researched by Clyde Edwards and Earl Dean at the Emeline Fairbanks Memorial Library in Terre Haute. Once a sketch was made at the library by Earl Dean, he worked through the night adapting the sketch to a hand machined mold depicting the curved cocoa pod as the center portion of the newly designed sample Coca-Cola bottle. With limited time remaining before the molten glass furnaces would be shut down for cleaning, Dean produced a few sample bottles that would be submitted to the national Coca-Cola bottle contest." Please Credit quoted text and Read More -> CLICK HERE |
Located on the North East corner, at Third and Voorhees Streets, Terre Haute, Indiana (Vigo County)
Erected in 1994, by the Indiana Historical Bureau, the Vigo County Historical Society and the Coca-Cola Company. Image belongs to www.coca-colacompany.com |
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