Coca-Cola is initially offered in bottles in a confectionery store in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1894.
Coca-Cola was initially offered in bottles in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1894. Local shop owner Joseph A. Biedenharm bottle soda water in bottles he had on hand, which happened to be Hutchinson blob-top bottles stamped with "Biedenharn Candy Company, Vicksburg, Miss." The first bottles were Hutchinson bottles, which differed greatly from the much later hobble-skirt version of 1915 that is now so well known. A few years later, two Chattanooga, Tennessee, entrepreneurs, Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead, introduced the notion of bottling and were so convincing that Candler signed a contract giving them ownership of the technique for only one dollar.
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