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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.
Asa Griggs "Buddie" Candler Jr. (August 27, 1880 – January 11, 1953) was an American businessman and the son of Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company. Candler Jr. helped build his father's business into an empire.
Asa Jr. was the eccentric son of Asa Griggs Candler, co-founder of Coca-Cola. Candler Jr. helped build his father's business into an empire. He later became a real-estate developer, opening the Briarcliff Hotel at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and N. Highland Ave. in Atlanta's Virginia Highland neighborhood.
One of the former homes of Coca-Cola co-founder and Atlanta mayor Asa Griggs Candler: his mansion Callan Castle in Inman Park, built 1902-1904 where he lived until 1916. his mansion at 1500 Ponce de Leon Avenue in Druid Hills, built 1916, until his death in 1929. It is now the Saint John Chrysostom Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
A billionaire heir to a Coca-Cola bottling fortune has been ordered to pay $900m (£710m) in damages to a former employee in a landmark sexual assault case.. The Los Angeles court’s ruling on ...
He sat on the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola from 1956 to 1982. [1] [4] [6] When his father died in 1977, he inherited the family business, JTL Corp., and quadrupled the business by acquiring bottlers in Florida, Texas, Colorado, Arizona and elsewhere. [1] [4] [6] In 1986, he sold the bottling company to Coca-Cola Enterprises for US$1.4 billion.
The dynastic heirs to the Walmart fortune rank 16th, 17th, and 18th on Bloomberg's rich list. ... ($306 billion), Coca-Cola ($307 billion), or even Netflix ($310 billion).
A Los Angeles jury on Monday awarded a woman $900 million in damages in her sexual assault case against the heir to a Coca-Cola bottling fortune, her attorney announced.. The woman, who was ...