Asa Griggs Candler Sr. was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta,Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed it as a major company.
Roberto Críspulo Goizueta Cantera was a Cuban-born American business executive who served as the chairman,president,and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980 until his death in October 1997.
Sarah-Elizabeth Langford is the former first lady of Atlanta and a former beauty pageant titleholder. Langford was the wife of the 59th Mayor of Atlanta,Kasim Reed. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She competed in the Miss America pageant in 2002 and the Miss USA pageant in 2005.
Mohammed Kasim Reed is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 59th mayor of Atlanta,Georgia's state capital and largest city,from 2010 to 2018. A Democrat,Reed was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1998 to 2002 and represented the 35th District in the Georgia State Senate from 2003 to 2009. He served as campaign manager for Shirley Franklin's successful Atlanta mayoral campaign in 2001. After Franklin was term limited from the mayor's office,Reed successfully ran for the position in 2009. Inaugurated on January 4,2010,Reed was elected to a second term in 2013.
Ana Patricia Botín-Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea is a Spanish banker who has been the executive chairman of Santander Group since 2014.
A municipal election in the City of Atlanta was held on Tuesday,November 3,2009. Atlanta is the capital of the state of Georgia and is the largest city in Georgia and is the center of the Atlanta metropolitan area,the largest metropolitan area in the South.
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is a museum dedicated to the achievements of the civil rights movement in the United States and the broader worldwide human rights movement. Located in downtown Atlanta,Georgia,the museum opened to the public on June 23,2014.
John F. Brock,is an American businessman who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. (CCE),the world's third-largest marketer,distributor,and producers of Coca-Cola products. He has more than 25 years of experience in the beverage sales industry.
Mary Norwood is an American businesswoman and politician who is a member of the Atlanta City Council. She was a candidate for mayor of Atlanta in 2009 and 2017. In both campaigns she advanced to the runoff,but respectively lost to Kasim Reed and Keisha Lance Bottoms by narrow margins. In addition to her mayoral runs,she represented city-wide posts on the Atlanta City Council from 2002 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018. She resides in the Tuxedo Park neighborhood of Atlanta's Buckhead community.
Helene D. Gayle is an American physician,and academic and non-profit administrator. She has been president of Spelman College since 2023. She formerly was CEO of the Chicago Community Trust,one of the nation's leading community foundations. Earlier in her career she was the director of international humanitarian organization CARE,and spent much of her career in the field of public health research in epidemiology at the CDC.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Georgia,concurrently with the election of the Governor of Georgia,as well as elections to the United States Senate in other states,to the United States House of Representatives,and to various other state and local offices.
The Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter was located at 477 Peachtree Street NE,at the corner of Pine Street in the SoNo subdistrict of Downtown Atlanta,Georgia,United States,just south of Midtown. It was officially closed on August 28,2017,after many years of political wrangling over the site and its management. The 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) building,which is within sight of Fox Theatre and Bank of America Plaza,stretches from Peachtree Street in the front to Courtland Street in the back. It was run by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless,whose executive director was Anita Beaty. The facility could house up to 700 homeless men each night,although some sources say it could house up to 1000.
The 2017 Atlanta mayoral election occurred on November 7,2017,with a runoff election held on December 5,2017. Incumbent mayor Kasim Reed,a member of the Democratic Party who had been in office since 2010,was ineligible to run for reelection due to term limits.
Bodyarmor SuperDrink is an American brand of sports drink owned by The Coca-Cola Company. Products launched under the brand include:Sports,"Lyte" Sports,"Edge Sports," and "SportWater".
Mark A. Tatum is an American sports and business executive who is currently serving as the Deputy Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) under Adam Silver. Additionally,Tatum also currently holds the position of the NBA's chief operating officer. For his work in these capacities,Forbes ranked him at No. 8 on its list of "Most Influential Minorities in Sports". He is of Vietnamese and Jamaican descent.
Kelly Lynn Loeffler is an American businesswoman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2020 to 2021. Loeffler was nominated as Administrator of the Small Business Administration on December 5,2024 by President Trump.
The 2021 Atlanta mayoral election occurred on November 2,2021,with a runoff between the top two candidates taking place on November 30. Incumbent mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms did not seek reelection. City council member Andre Dickens defeated council president Felicia Moore in the runoff by a margin of more than 20%. Candidates eliminated in the general election included former mayor Kasim Reed and attorney Sharon Gay.
Michèle Taylor is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council. She previously served as a board member of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and was a founding board member and vice chair of President Joe Biden’s Super PAC,Unite The Country.
EyeMail Inc. is an American communications technology and digital marketing company based in Atlanta,Georgia. Founded by entrepreneur Lisa S. Jones,EyeMail Inc. is both a black and woman-owned business enterprise (WBE),and is an officially certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by the NMSDC.
Lisa S. Jones is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur,best known for being the founder of Atlanta-based video email company EyeMail Inc. As both a black and woman-owned business,EyeMail Inc. is classified as a Minority Women Business Enterprise (MWBE). Her company began as a start-up,eventually growing exponentially through partnerships with Microsoft,Delta Air Lines,Time Warner,Porsche North America,the Atlanta Tech Village,PepsiCo and,most notably,The Coca-Cola Company,through which EyeMail Inc. got selected by Microsoft as a premier MWBE supplier in digital marketing. Prior to dedicating herself to entrepreneurship,Jones worked in supplier diversity for telecommunications provider AT&T,and continues to develop a career as a thought leader and public speaker in the matter.
