HISTORY. March 14, 2018 ·. In 1894, Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Local shop owner Joseph A. Biedenharm used the bottles that he had on hand to bottle soda water, which happened to be Hutchinson blob-top bottles embossed with “Biedenharn Candy Company, Vicksburg, Miss.”.
That year Allen retired and sold the business to Nebraskan Gene Hurtz, who formed the A&W Root Beer Company. The first A&W Root Beer outlet in Canada opened in 1956. By 1960 the number of A&W restaurants swelled to more than 2,000. In 1963 the company was sold to the J. Hungerford Smith Company, which had produced Allen's concentrate since 1921. . 492 443 315 189 270 421 134 442how many bottles of coke are sold a day
