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Mark Whitacre

Mark Whitacre

American business professional

Jul 20, 2026

1:59
Give our listeners, just for those who may not be familiar with who you are, what you're doing, uh, at Coca-Cola, and then we'll just tease out how you got there as well.
2:10
Yeah.
2:10
Well, Coca-Cola Consolidated is the largest bottler, uh, in America.
2:14
It's not Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta.
2:17
We'd be the bottles and cans that'd be in the grocery store, a Walmart, a Costco, Kroger, Harris Teeter, it, it's the largest bottler in America.
2:25
Over 17,000 employees, 104 plant sites, and we're a 125-year-old company.
2:33
But 25 years ago, God put on the heart of our chairman and CEO, Frank Harrison, that the culture is everything.

18 MINS LATER

21:03
Wow.
3:14
What this means, corporate espionage and price fixing, what is this all about? So could you kindly take us back a little bit and tell us a little bit of that background of that incident?
3:27
Yeah, absolutely.
3:28
For one, it was long ago.
3:30
It was 35 years ago.
3:32
So it's been a long time.
3:33
My kids are actually all older than I was even at that time.
3:36
Our youngest was four and I was 32 and now he's 40.

10 MINS LATER

13:37
Yeah,

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