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There's a lot of reasons Carbonated Sugar Water, Inc. isn't a $200B business, and Coca Cola (tm) is, that "just a lot of sugar" doesn't even begin to explain.


Coca Cola is often mentioned in the first lesson of a marketing class. The product would collapse without the huge amount of money they put in advertising every year.


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