The Coca-Cola Company
HQ US45% share
Makes Coke concentrate at a few select plants worldwide and sells to independent bottlers; the concentrate is the captive moat product.
chemical · input
Beverage Flavor Concentrate & Syrup
Proprietary flavor concentrates and syrups for soft drinks.
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Goods affected
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What depends on it
Goods that need this input
1 essential American goods rely on beverage flavor concentrate & syrup somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Who makes it
Supplier companies
3 companies produce beverage flavor concentrate & syrup.
Givaudan SA
HQ CH
World's largest flavor and fragrance company; ~CHF 7.2B revenue. Gives its name to flavoring — the flavor science behind processed meat seasonings, sauces, and food products globally. Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing division creates custom spice-based flavor profiles for processed meat, poultry, and seafood applications, supplying global food manufacturers. Notable: same company creates both fine fragrance formulas (for luxury perfumes like Calvin Klein Eternity, Dior J'adore) AND the flavor systems in processed food. The science of 'what smells good' and 'what tastes good' is the same sensory science, practiced by the same company for perfumery and food simultaneously.
PepsiCo(PEP)
HQ US
Runs the same concentrate-to-bottler model for Pepsi and its beverage brands.