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Coke's Muhtar Kent Predicts Global Recovery by Year-End

ImageCompanies that adopt 'smart growth' policies that are innovative and safeguard natural resources will benefit from competitive advantages in a growing world economy, Muhtar Kent, president and CEO of the Coca-Cola Co., says in a video broadcast from Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Kent is attending the annual meeting that brings together top business, political and thought leaders from around the world to the Swiss ski resort. This year's forum opened Wednesday, Jan. 26, with a keynote address by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Mr. Kent provides an optimistic economic overview saying that he expects the world economy to attain pre-September 2008 growth levels by the end of the year.

Protecting Coke's secret formula from WikiLeaks

Image Never mind the Wiki Leaks fallout for U.S. foreign policy. Today’s kicker question at a National Press Club luncheon: how do you protect Coca-Cola’s famously secret formula from WikiLeaks, the online site now uncloaking a trove of  previously hush-hush U.S. diplomatic documents.  “I guess that we have to have better systems than the U.S. State Department,” quipped Muhtar Kent, Coca-Cola Co’s chief executive.

The Iron Lady of The Marmara in New York

ImageThe Trip Advisor, one of the most well known websites in the world, is used by travelers to get information about restaurants, hotels, flights, and housing; and it also ranks the firms through voting. There are 420 hotels that are in New York and ranked by TripAdvisor.  The Marmara Manhattan, which had initially been opened in 1989 as a condo and been providing extended stay services since 1998, is on the 64th place of these 420 hotels. (October 27th, 2010) Even if this ranking were to change, The Marmara always maintains it place within the first seventy.

Coca-Cola's Kent Named Winner of "Responsible CEO of the Year" Award

Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine named Muhtar Kent the "Responsible CEO of the Year" in the Large Market category ($2 billion-plus revenues public company). This award recognizes how individual CEOs have aligned their company's interests with that of thousands of stakeholders to do well by doing good. Nominations were made by the editorial team at CR Magazine, which looked at the following three criteria:

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