The Coca-Cola Company
The second function of the management process is organization. Management must organize, assign duties or responsibilities, and put the course of action into practice. Managers are responsible to ensure the plan is put into action the important resources while reducing unnecessary expenses. This paper will confer how the Coca-Cola Company uses the organizing function of management relating to physical assets, human resources, and technology.

In 1886, John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist, stirred a concoction and carried it to Jacobs’ Pharmacy that was a few doors down. Mixing the concoction at the Pharmacy with carbonated water letting the customers sample the product and the after the sampling the mixture was selling for five cents a glass. The first year average of selling the mixture was nine glasses per day. The mixture was named Coca-cola from Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, who wrote the name in script and is still written the same way today. Pemberton died in 1888 without knowing the success of the business. Asa Griggs Candler securing the rights to the business in 1891 for a total of $2300 became the company’s first president and took the company to greater heights. Marketing of the new product by giving away free coupons for the new drink was his way of making the product known passing out free calendars and signs to pharmacy’s so the symbol, and the name would get out into the world (The Coca-Cola Company, 2011) .

In today’s market Coca-Cola Company is the number one known company for selling beverages serving 1.7 billon servings per day in 200 countries offering more than 500 brands of beverages. With the help of Coca-Cola’s bottling partners, Coca-cola ranks in the top 10 employers with more than 700,000 employees. Coca-Colas stock value is 160 billion dollars with physical assets around 20 billion