Coca-Cola (owned by JTL Corporation and BCI Holding Corporation) to form Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. (CCE). In December 1991, Coca-Cola Enterprises merged with the Johnston Coca-Cola Bottling Group, Inc. The first bottling of Coca-Cola occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the Biedenharn Candy Company in 1894. The proprietor of the bottling works was Joseph A. Biedenharn. The original bottles were Hutchinson bottles, very different from the much later hobble-skirt design of 1915 now so familiar. It was then a few years later that two entrepreneurs from Chattanooga, Tennessee, namely Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead, proposed the idea of bottling and were
London Opera Glass Company it opened in October 1999. The company is now based in Sandwich, Kent. It supplies over 60 theatres in the United Kingdom and the distinctive red glasses are made in the UK. The company makes charitable donations, including to "The Theatres Trust" and the Marlowe Theatre. London Opera Glass Company donated 30 pairs of glasses to the Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales for children to use. London Opera Glass Company The London Opera Glass Company was officially formed in London, England on 20 May 1913 to produce opera glasses for theatres in London. The company's purpose was to