Coca Cola Corporation was incorporated by Asa Candler, Charley Pemberton and Woolfolk Walker in 1888 and was a forerunner of today's The Coca Cola Corporation.

Candler abandoned the company in 1894, in order to solidify his legal claim to the Coca-Cola beverage. Either Pemberton or Walker could have caused significant legal trouble for Candler, as they maintained a stake in the business, and Candler's subsequent incorporation of The Coca Cola Corporation was meant to obscure this aspect of the company's origins.

Candler generally did not mention this early manifestation of the company, as its existence remained a legal threat until its charter expired in 1908.

References

• Pendergrast, Mark: For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It. New York: Basic Books, 2000 (second edition; ISBN 0465054684).