Coco Cola as a Global Organization

Coca Cola as a Global Organization

By Martin Thomas

Keiser University

Dr. Yan Luo-Beitler

 Global Human Resource Management 

8-19-2013

Introduction

Coca Cola is national known to a global organization that has business all around the world. This research paper are going to detail facts such as current global economy, professional cultural competence among personnel and planned process for global human resource functioning. We will demonstrate practices within domestic and global human resource markets, apply human resource solutions to a global market and discuss world issues, laws, trends and international business that impact the effective human resource global strategy that will be developed and implemented.

A brief history of Coca Cola, a pharmacist from Atlanta Dr. John Slyth Pemberton had founded the company in 1886. What people didn’t know that the soft drink was stripped of all its narcotics, in addition, the soft drink was designed to make people feel better because of the coca leafs that were in the drink. The young doctor at the time sold the drink outside of his pharmacy that he had worked at for a five cense a bottle and on average they he sold about nine bottles a day. Sadly around 1886 Mr. Pemberton became ill and he sold some of his company to Asa G. Candler. In 1888 Pemberton had passed away and Candler bought all of the shares of Coca Cola. Chandler knew that this product was going to be something special and at the same time he was a marketing genius. He started handing out coupons for one free drink to and also he promoted the product anyway that he cold by painting anything he can get his hands on to promote the drink. Around 1894 he opened a warehouse in Dallas Texas and in the same year opened stores in Chicago and Los Angles.

Around 1919 Candler sold the company for twenty five million dollars to a banker named Ernest Woodruff, at the time he was only 33 years old and...