Bids for the 1996 Summer Olympics for the Games (a promise that was not carried out eventually, as Athens went on to host the 2004 Summer Olympics). Coca-Cola executives, however, had feared that a successful Atlanta bid would hurt their business. While they produced commemorative pins of the six candidate cities, with the intent of handing out the winning city's pins to IOC delegates, this backfired as others alleged that Coca-Cola had predicted which city had won; indeed sales of the beverage in Greece dropped for the next few years. A year later, an article appeared in the German periodical "Der Spiegel" accusing the Atlanta Committee
Coca-Cola İçecek Coca-Cola İçecek Coca-Cola İçecek A.Ş. is an anchor bottler and a part of the Coca-Cola System. It is 50.3% owned by Anadolu Efes, 20.1% owned by the Coca-Cola Company, 3.7% owned by Özgörkey Holding, and the remaining 25.9% publicly traded on the Turkish stock exchanges. It is the 5th largest bottler in the Coca-Cola System in terms of sales volume. The company is headquartered in Istanbul. The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola products in Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Jordan, as well as its home country of Turkey. The company is included at the BIST