Many business leaders were reluctant to attend until Coca-Cola executive Robert Woodruff intervened. According to company lore, he threatened to move Coca-Cola out of Atlanta if business owners ...

With very few RSVPs coming back, the mayor of Atlanta reached out to Robert Woodruff, a former president of Coca-Cola who ...

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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the story goes, the president of Coca-Cola at the time, Robert Woodruff, insisted that every man in uniform receive a bottle for 5 cents, regardless of where ...

To Coca-Cola Co., the name Woodruff has been as indispensable as ... Four years later he turned it over to his hustling son Robert, who soon changed Coke from a corner-drugstore treat into ...

First, to Asa Candler in 1892 for a paltry $2,300 and subsequently to a trust managed by Ernest Woodruff in 1919. The next hundred years saw Coca-Cola grow through the roof. Robert Woodruff (right ...