Robert Woodruff was born in 1889 and died in 1985. For more than 3 decades, from the 1920s to the 50s, he led the Coca-Cola Company. “For a Coca-Cola collector, things that came from Mr ...

If you want to own a piece of Atlanta history, be sure to put in a bid at the auction of items from the estate of Robert W. Woodruff, president of Coca-Cola from 1923 to 1955, and his wife Nell.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...