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...clear majority would have been for us to begin a two-cola policy." Dyson conveyed that sentiment to Keough, who promptly huddled with Goizueta. Between them, the two top executives decided to bring back old Coke. After flirting with the name Original Coca-Cola, they settled on Coca-Cola Classic...
...agonizingly short. Bill Schermerhorn, Coke's brand manager, made an urgent telephone call last Monday to Alvin Schechter, creative director of the Schechter Group, a Manhattan design firm. By 10 p.m. Tuesday, Schechter had completed the assignment. The red can features the traditional Coca-Cola script with the word "Classic" in black roman type...
...company has been expanding in several directions. It acquired Columbia Pictures for more than $690 million in cash and stock in 1982, and has placed its once exclusive brand name on drinks ranging from cherry Coke to caffeine-free diet Coke. The addition of Coca-Cola Classic will bring the number of products bearing the Coke name to six, compared with the single Coke that Goizueta inherited. Pepsi, by contrast, has its name on five products...
...very difficult and costly for the company to market two products with the same name," cautions one Madison Avenue insider. Some industry observers think that Coca-Cola may settle on a two-pronged strategy. It could focus on new Coke in its advertising, and let the triumphantly returned Classic Coke sell itself...
...America. We want to say thank you for your efforts, efforts that symbolize the love our consumers have for Coca-Cola." And Mullins' reward? What else? For being the new Coke's most persistent and outspoken critic, the company is giving him the first case of Coca-Cola Classic that comes off the bottling line nearest his residence. The Real Thing, again. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/New York, Joseph J. Kane and B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta, with other bureaus