12. April 2025

Coca-Cola had been available in China since the early 20th century, when bottles were first imported from Coca-Cola’s manufacturing base in the Philippines. The American soft drink was advertised by Shanghai restaurants catering to foreigners, such as Sullivan’s, in as early as 1916. It was only in the 1920s, however that the Coca-Cola Company appointed official retailers and then bottlers in China’s largest treaty ports - the Watson’s Mineral Water Company in Shanghai and the Crystal...