<P> The Coca - Cola Company has on occasion introduced other cola drinks under the Coke name . The most common of these is Diet Coke, along with others including Caffeine - Free Coca - Cola, Diet Coke Caffeine - Free, Coca - Cola Zero Sugar, Coca - Cola Cherry, Coca - Cola Vanilla, and special versions with lemon, lime, and coffee . Based on Interbrand's "best global brand" study of 2015, Coca - Cola was the world's third most valuable brand, after Apple and Google . In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings each day . </P> <P> Confederate Colonel John Pemberton, who was wounded in the American Civil War and became addicted to morphine, began a quest to find a substitute for the problematic drug . The prototype Coca - Cola recipe was formulated at Pemberton's Eagle Drug and Chemical House, a drugstore in Columbus, Georgia, originally as a coca wine . He may have been inspired by the formidable success of Vin Mariani, a French coca wine . It is also worth noting that a Spanish drink called "Kola Coca" was presented at a contest in Philadelphia in 1885, a year before the official birth of Coca - Cola . The rights for this Spanish drink were bought by Coca - Cola in 1953 . </P> <P> In 1885, Pemberton registered his French Wine Coca nerve tonic . In 1886, when Atlanta and Fulton County passed prohibition legislation, Pemberton responded by developing Coca - Cola, a nonalcoholic version of French Wine Coca . The first sales were at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886 . It was initially sold as a patent medicine for five cents a glass at soda fountains, which were popular in the United States at the time due to the belief that carbonated water was good for the health . Pemberton claimed Coca - Cola cured many diseases, including morphine addiction, indigestion, nerve disorders, headaches, and impotence . Pemberton ran the first advertisement for the beverage on May 29 of the same year in the Atlanta Journal . </P> <P> By 1888, three versions of Coca - Cola--sold by three separate businesses--were on the market . A co-partnership had been formed on January 14, 1888 between Pemberton and four Atlanta businessmen: J.C. Mayfield, A.O. Murphey, C.O. Mullahy, and E.H. Bloodworth . Not codified by any signed document, a verbal statement given by Asa Candler years later asserted under testimony that he had acquired a stake in Pemberton's company as early as 1887 . John Pemberton declared that the name "Coca - Cola" belonged to his son, Charley, but the other two manufacturers could continue to use the formula . </P>

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