Editing Coca-Cola (section)

===Origins of bottling===
[[File:Commercial. At the Coca Cola Plant BAnQ P48S1P06539.jpg|thumb|Bottling plant of Coca-Cola Canada Ltd., January 8, 1941, [[Montreal]], Canada]]
The first bottling of Coca-Cola occurred in [[Vicksburg, Mississippi]], at the Biedenharn Candy Company on March 12, 1894.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.coca-colacompany.com/our-company/history-of-bottling|title=History of Bottling|author=The Coca-Cola Company|work=The Coca-Cola Company |access-date=March 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116234350/http://www.coca-colacompany.com/our-company/history-of-bottling|archive-date=January 16, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The proprietor of the bottling works was [[Joseph A. Biedenharn]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/mar12/first-bottles-coca-cola/|title=Mar 12, 1894 CE: First Bottles of Coca-Cola|date=December 17, 2013|work=[[National Geographic Society]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604175453/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/mar12/first-bottles-coca-cola/|archive-date=June 4, 2016|access-date=March 12, 2019}}</ref> The original bottles were [[Hutchinson Patent Stopper|Hutchinson]] bottles, very different from the much later hobble-skirt design of 1915 now so familiar.

A few years later two entrepreneurs from [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], namely [[Benjamin Thomas (Coca-Cola bottler)|Benjamin F. Thomas]] and [[Joseph B. Whitehead]], proposed the idea of bottling and were so persuasive that Candler signed a contract giving them control of the procedure for only one dollar. Candler later realized that he had made a grave mistake.<ref>{{cite web|title=Coca-Cola History|website=worldofcoca-cola.com|url=https://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/about-us/coca-cola-history|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407225546/http://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/about-us/coca-cola-history/|archive-date=April 7, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Candler never collected his dollar, but in 1899, Chattanooga became the site of the first Coca-Cola bottling company. Candler remained very content just selling his company's syrup.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cocacolaunited.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HISTORY-OF-CHATTANOOGA-COCA-COLA-WORLDS-FIRST-BOTTLING-COMPANY.pdf |title=Chattanooga Coca-Cola History |access-date=August 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201213538/http://cocacolaunited.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/HISTORY-OF-CHATTANOOGA-COCA-COLA-WORLDS-FIRST-BOTTLING-COMPANY.pdf |archive-date=February 1, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> The loosely termed contract proved to be problematic for the Coca-Cola Company for decades to come. Legal matters were not helped by the decision of the bottlers to subcontract to other companies, effectively becoming parent bottlers.<ref name="history-of-bottling">{{cite web |url=http://www.coca-colacompany.com/our-company/history-of-bottling |title=History Of Bottling |access-date=January 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116234350/http://www.coca-colacompany.com/our-company/history-of-bottling |archive-date=January 16, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This contract specified that bottles would be sold at 5¢ each and had no fixed duration, leading to the [[fixed price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959]].