The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups.[2] The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia.[3] The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake CocaCola beverage, Coca-Cola currently offers more than 500 brands in over 200 countries or territories and serves over 1.7 billion servings each day.[4] The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889 where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive territory. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North America, Coca-Cola Refreshments. The Coca-Cola Company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Its stock is listed on the NYSE and is part of DJIA, S&P 500 Index, the Russell 1000 Index and the Russell 1000 Growth Stock Index. Its current chairman and chief executive is Muhtar Kent.
The company has a long history of acquisitions. Coca-Cola acquired Minute Maid in 1960,[5] the Indian cola brand Thums Up in 1993,[6] and Barq's in 1995.[7] In 2001, it acquired the Odwalla brand of fruit juices, smoothies and bars for $181 million.[8] In 2007, it acquired Fuze Beverage from founder Lance Collins and Castanea Partners for an estimated $250 million.[9] The company's 2009 bid to buy a Chinese juice maker ended when China rejected its $4.2 billion bid for the Huiyuan Juice Group on the grounds that it would be a virtual monopoly. Nationalism was also thought to be a reason for aborting the deal.[10] In 1982 Coca-Cola made its only non-beverage acquisition, when it purchased Columbia Pictures for $692 million. It sold the movie studio to Sony for $1.5 billion in 1989.[11]

The Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is an American multinational manufacturer of major home appliances headquartered in Benton Charter Township, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor, Michigan.[2][3] The company is listed in Fortune 500 and has annual revenue of approximately $18.4 billion, more than 70,000 employees, and more than 70 manufacturing and technology research centers around the world. The company markets Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Gladiator GarageWorks, Inglis, Estate, Brastemp, Bauknecht, Consul, and other major brand names to consumers in nearly every country around the world.

After acquiring the Maytag Corporation on March 31, 2006, Whirlpool Corporation passed Electrolux to become "the largest home appliance maker in the world." Notably, almost all of Whirlpool's appliance line undergoes some manufacturing within the United States, as opposed other durable good manufacturers like General Electric, Electrolux, or LG. Founded in 1911, Whirlpool celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2011.

History

Shri Motilal Talera came as a migrant to Pune from Marwar, Rajasthan with nothing but the proverbial lota ie no money. After a few odd jobs he got his break in business by getting to manage the Pune Hay Market (which was known as Gadital meaning terminal). The farmers from nearby villages would get their bullock carts loaded with hay here to be auctioned for which he used to earn a transaction fee. Nobody could have imagined that in this humble beginning was in fact the seed of Dynamic Logistics. It was our Chairman Shri Kanhaiyalal Motilal Taleras (KMT) vision to start a warehousing company in 1967 with a few faltering steps which led to the incorporation of Dighi Warehousing Pvt Ltd in 1984. Starting with a space of only 3000 sq ft for warehousing was one of the simplest idea to make use of the large land bank the Talera family owns. KMTs cool temperament and eye for detail makes him a master in his field though he prefers to keep a very low profile working as diligently as ever. It was this tiny little strategic company bearing the name of the village on the outskirts of Pune where it is located which was rechristened and evolved into the first mover Dynamic Logistics with the efforts, energy and drive of Pramod & Praful Talera, the two sons of KMT.