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Asa Griggs Candler Sr. (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 [1] from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia.
On May 1, 1889, Asa Candler published a full-page advertisement in The Atlanta Journal, proclaiming his wholesale and retail drug business as "sole proprietors of Coca‑Cola ...
Asa Griggs Candler (born Dec. 30, 1851, near Villa Rica, Ga., U.S.—died March 12, 1929, Atlanta, Ga.) was a U.S. soft-drink manufacturer who developed Coca-Cola. Born on a farm, Candler studied medicine, became a pharmacist, and developed a prosperous wholesale drug business.
Asa Griggs Candler was American business tycoon, best remembered as the founder of the Coca Cola Company. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, achievements and fun facts about him.
May 1, 2009 · The Branding Game. How Asa Candler Built Coca-Cola. A master marketer, he grew Coca-Cola into a global giant by lavishing free samples on pharmacists and consumers, securing the earliest...
Sep 3, 2002 · Asa Griggs Candler. Courtesy of Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Candler became a successful manufacturer of patent medicines, and in 1888 he bought from John Stith Pemberton the rights to make a tonic and headache remedy called Coca-Cola.
Few names stand as tall as Asa Griggs Candler—the man who transformed a unique beverage recipe into a global phenomenon known as Coca-Cola. His life, a tapestry of audacious entrepreneurship, intriguing contradictions, and political endeavors, remains a fascinating study of grit, ambition, and unexpected ironies.
