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The Coca-Cola Company Headquarters & offices · Atlanta, Georgia
The Coca-Cola Company · Atlanta, Georgia
A 35-acre campus around the 1979 North Avenue tower, rebuilt inside by Gensler with a “Main Street” of restaurants, a pharmacy and a credit union — and Robert Woodruff’s office moved into the lobby.
Coca-Cola has been on North Avenue since 1920, about 2 km from the soda fountain where the first glass was poured in 1886. The campus, the perks and 140 years of Atlanta offices — then the pay. Every number from Coca-Cola's own pages, its designers and its SEC filings.
- 35 acresheadquarters campus in Atlanta
- 1.96M sq ftrenovated, LEED Silver (≈ 182,090 m²)
- Since 1920on North Avenue, next to Georgia Tech
- 12 + 15–30paid holidays + vacation days a year (U.S.)
Sources: Form 10-K FY2025 · coca-colacompany.com (Careers, History, Media Center) · welcometotcccbenefits.com (2026) · Newcomb & Boyd project page “The Coca-Cola Company AOC Renovation”
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THE ATLANTA OFFICE COMPLEX · NORTH AVENUE · RENOVATED FROM 2012
A “Main Street” through the whole campus
From 2012 Coca-Cola rebuilt the inside of its Atlanta Office Complex — the North Avenue Tower, the USA Building, the Technical Engineering Center, the Central Reception Building, Coca-Cola Plaza, the Employee Center and the Learning Center. The first phase was a ground-floor “Main Street” corridor linking the buildings, with restaurants, conference centers, shops, a credit union and a pharmacy. The last phase, the Central Reception Building, has a white rotunda with an original 1949 yellow delivery truck, a terrazzo floor made with pieces of recycled Coke bottles, a full-service restaurant named Plum Street after the company’s original headquarters building, and Robert Woodruff’s office, moved here from a remote floor. Outside is a renovated green space employees call “The Backyard”.
- 1,960,000 sq ft renovated (≈ 182,090 m²)
- LEED Silver
- Interior design: Gensler
- Onsite clinic, pharmacy & fitness center
- Free beverages in the cafés
- 29-story tower, occupied in 1979
The tower
Facts: Newcomb & Boyd project page (AOC Renovation) · Ascension Program Management project page · Gensler project page and AIA Georgia 2020 Design Award entry (Central Reception Building) · coca-colacompany.com, Careers: Locations.
The Atlanta Office Complex, North Avenue
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| North Avenue Tower (headquarters, principal executive offices) | One Coca-Cola Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30313 |
| USA Building · Technical Engineering Center · Central Reception Building · Employee Center · Learning Center | Atlanta Office Complex, One Coca-Cola Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30313 |
| World of Coca-Cola (public museum, Pemberton Place) | 121 Baker Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30313 |
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 cover page · Newcomb & Boyd project page (building names) · World of Coca-Cola FAQ · See them on the map ↓
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 and FY2019 (Item 2, Properties) · Newcomb & Boyd and Ascension Program Management project pages · AIA Georgia · coca-colacompany.com, Careers: Locations and History. The 2011 tower-lighting release gives 26 stories and 402 ft; the careers page gives 29 stories.
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Benefits (United States)
100% of the first 1% of pay saved and 50% of the next 5%. Auto-enrollment at 6%, eligible after 30 days, immediate vesting.
Fully company-funded account credited monthly with 5.5% of eligible pay plus at least 3.8% interest a year; yours after one year.
Coca-Cola matches the KO stock employees buy, up to $2,000 a year, after the shares are held for 12 months.
15 days from year 1, 20 from year 10, 25 from year 20 and 30 from year 30; up to five extra days can be bought each year.
Seven company-wide holidays plus five floating holidays each year.
For mothers and fathers after birth, adoption or foster placement.
Reimbursed per child for eligible regular full-time employees.
Confidential counseling, legal and financial help for employees and dependents through Spring Health, plus a mindfulness app and on-demand fitness classes.
Source: welcometotcccbenefits.com, The Coca-Cola Company's U.S. benefits site linked from its careers page (Financial Programs; Life+ Programs; 2026) · coca-colacompany.com, Life at Coca-Cola
Why people stay: what Coca-Cola itself describes
Coca-Cola’s global career strategy program, meant to make clear what a career at the company looks like.
The Thrive Opportunity Marketplace matches employees with spare capacity to short-term projects and assignments.
Company-wide programs at every level, plus online learning and leadership development.
Employee-led networks around the world, open to all and organized by region.
Senior leaders hold global town halls every quarter with employee Q&A; teams also run function-level town halls.
Performance Enablement and Culture & Engagement Survey platforms collect regular, anonymized employee feedback.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Human Capital Management · coca-colacompany.com, Life at Coca-Cola
Who works here
employees worldwide (Dec 31, 2025)
of them in the United States
people employed together with bottling partners
countries and territories where its drinks are sold
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 (employees, countries) · Coca-Cola media center, Apr 14, 2026 (system employment). The share outside the U.S. is calculated by eciffo.
Pay at The Coca-Cola Company
Based on Coca-Cola’s global workforce; the median employee was a part-time, hourly barista at Costa Coffee in the United Kingdom. The CEO’s total compensation ($31,208,165) was about 1,739 times this amount.
Source: Proxy statement, March 16, 2026 (pay ratio disclosure)
Source: Coca-Cola careers postings R-144884, R-147299, R-147312, R-144465 and R-147296 (Atlanta, posted Oct 9, 2026). Base pay only; an annual incentive is on top (reference value 30% for the People Analytics director role).
U.S. companies don't have to report pay by age, and Coca-Cola doesn't. The posted ranges above are the closest official numbers for headquarters jobs.
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Office history: 140 years, all in Atlanta
- 1886 Jacobs’ Pharmacy, downtown Atlanta
On May 8, 1886, pharmacist Dr. John Pemberton carried a jug of his new syrup down the street to Jacobs’ Pharmacy, where the first glass of Coca-Cola was sold for five cents at the soda fountain. About nine drinks a day were sold that first year.
Source: coca-colacompany.com, History and “The Birth of a Refreshing Idea”
Five Points, where Jacobs' Pharmacy stood · Marc Merlin / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1892 Asa Candler incorporates the company
Atlanta businessman Asa Candler, who began buying the business in 1888, completed the purchase and incorporated The Coca-Cola Company as a Georgia corporation in 1892.
Source: coca-colacompany.com, History and “The Asa Candler Era”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1898 The first building of its own
A new building became the first headquarters devoted only to making syrup and running the business. The company outgrew it fast, moving to larger quarters five times in the next 12 years.
Source: coca-colacompany.com, History timeline and “The Asa Candler Era”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1920 Plum Street, beside North Avenue
After Ernest Woodruff’s group bought the company in 1919, Coca-Cola moved to the North Avenue area next to Georgia Tech, its neighbor ever since. The company calls the Plum Street building its original headquarters; the campus restaurant is named after it.
Source: Coca-Cola media center, Apr 14, 2026 · coca-colacompany.com, History · Gensler and AIA Georgia (Central Reception Building)
North Avenue and the Coca-Cola headquarters, Atlanta, 2006 · Lee Coursey / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1979 The North Avenue Tower
The North Avenue Tower headquarters building was first occupied in 1979. Coca-Cola describes it as its 29-story tower that “has been impossible to miss” since then; for the 125th anniversary in 2011 the whole tower was wrapped in lit scrim, the world’s largest single-building illumination.
Source: coca-colacompany.com, History and Careers: Locations · Coca-Cola press release, May 2011
North Avenue tower · DXR / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1986 A reception building for the centennial
The Central Reception Building opened in 1986, the company’s 100th year, as a postmodern front door to the campus.
Source: AIA Georgia Design Award entry, 2020
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2007 Retooling two million square feet
Coca-Cola announced about $3 million of lighting, air-conditioning, rainwater and irrigation upgrades to cut energy use at its two-million-square-foot headquarters by 23% and water use by nearly 15%. The tower’s marquee had already switched from neon to LED.
Source: Coca-Cola press release, Apr 20, 2007
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2012–2020 Gensler rebuilds the inside
A multi-year renovation of the whole Atlanta Office Complex began with the Main Street corridor and moved floor by floor through the buildings, ending with the Central Reception Building, Plum Street restaurant and Woodruff’s relocated office. The 1,960,000 sq ft project reached LEED Silver.
Source: Ascension Program Management and Newcomb & Boyd project pages · Gensler · AIA Georgia, 2020
Central Reception Building · Photo: © Gensler - 2026 Part of the land goes to Georgia Tech
Coca-Cola agreed to sell Georgia Tech a two-story brick building it had owned since 1988 and an adjoining two-acre park along North Avenue, for $31.3 million, saying the space was no longer needed for the corporate campus.
Source: Coca-Cola media center, Apr 14, 2026
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| Press release 2007 | ≈ 2,000,000 | ≈ 185,806 | World headquarters, Atlanta Office Complex |
| 10-K 2013–2019 | 1,491,000 | 138,518 | 621,000 headquarters tower + 870,000 North America building, on 35 acres |
| Renovation (to 2020) | 1,960,000 | 182,090 | Seven buildings renovated (Newcomb & Boyd) |
| 10-K 2021–2025 | — | — | 35-acre complex with several office buildings, technical facilities and a reception center (no area given) |
Map: how the headquarters moved
Coca-Cola has never left Atlanta. From the soda fountain downtown to North Avenue, about 2 km north, every headquarters has stayed within a short drive — and since 1920 the company has not left the North Avenue neighborhood next to Georgia Tech.
- 1 · 1886Jacobs’ Pharmacy — Soda fountain in downtown Atlanta where the first Coca-Cola was sold (location approximate)
- 2 · 1920Plum Street, North Avenue area — The company's original headquarters building on Plum Street, next to Georgia Tech (location approximate)
- 3 · 1979North Avenue Tower, One Coca-Cola Plaza — 29-story headquarters tower on the 35-acre Atlanta Office Complex
Addresses: Form 10-K FY2025 cover page · coca-colacompany.com, History · Coca-Cola media center (Apr 14, 2026) · Gensler / AIA Georgia (Plum Street) · Locations: approximate, from the published places
What The Coca-Cola Company does
Coca-Cola began as a soda-fountain drink in Atlanta in 1886. It now calls itself “a total beverage company”: it owns or licenses brands from Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta to Costa, fairlife and BODYARMOR, makes concentrates and syrups, and relies mostly on independent bottling partners to produce and deliver the drinks. The Coca-Cola system sold 33.8 billion unit cases in 2025, or 2.2 billion servings a day.
Five operating segments: EMEA, Latin America, North America, Asia Pacific and Bottling Investments.
Where the money came from · Net operating revenues by segment (third party), 2025
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Item 1 and segment note (revenue from third parties; Corporate adds $0.1B)
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$41.9B → $47.9B
100,300 → 65,900
Fiscal years end December 31. Net operating revenues and employees (approximate, as published): Form 10-K FY2017, FY2019, FY2021, FY2023 and FY2025. Headcount swings mostly follow businesses bought and sold, such as company-owned bottlers; the FY2025 10-K attributes the 2025 drop to divestitures. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO since March 31, 2026. Joined Coca-Cola in 1996; ran Greater China & Korea, Brazil and Latin America, and was Chief Operating Officer from January 2025.
CEO from May 2017 and Chairman since April 2019; became Executive Chairman when he stepped down as CEO on March 31, 2026.
Dr. John S. Pemberton created Coca-Cola in Atlanta in 1886; his partner Frank M. Robinson named it and wrote the script logo. Asa G. Candler incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 (executive officers) · coca-colacompany.com (Leadership: Henrique Braun; History)
Hear it from the CEO
The Coca-Cola Company: questions people ask
Where is Coca-Cola's headquarters?
At One Coca-Cola Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia 30313 — the North Avenue Tower and the surrounding 35-acre Atlanta Office Complex, next to Georgia Tech. Corporate and North America teams work there.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · coca-colacompany.com, Careers: Locations
How big is Coca-Cola's headquarters?
The campus covers 35 acres. Its renovation took in about 1,960,000 sq ft (≈ 182,090 m²) across seven buildings; filings up to 2019 list a 621,000 sq ft headquarters tower and an 870,000 sq ft North America building.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 and FY2019 · Newcomb & Boyd project page
Who designed Coca-Cola's headquarters interiors?
Gensler led the multi-year renovation of the Atlanta Office Complex, including the Main Street corridor and the Central Reception Building, which won an AIA Georgia Design Award in 2020. Newcomb & Boyd engineered it; it is LEED Silver.
Source: Gensler · Newcomb & Boyd · AIA Georgia
When was the Coca-Cola tower built?
The North Avenue Tower was first occupied in 1979. Coca-Cola's careers page calls it a 29-story tower; a 2011 company release described it as 402 feet high.
Source: coca-colacompany.com, History and Careers · press release, May 2011
Can you visit Coca-Cola's headquarters?
The office campus is a workplace. The public place to visit is World of Coca-Cola at 121 Baker Street NW in downtown Atlanta's Pemberton Place, the company's museum and attraction.
Source: World of Coca-Cola FAQ
What benefits does Coca-Cola offer?
In the U.S.: a 3.5% 401(k) match plus a company-funded cash balance pension (5.5% of pay), a 1-to-1 stock match up to $2,000 a year, 15–30 vacation days, 12 paid holidays, 8 weeks of paid parental leave and up to $10,000 for adoption or surrogacy.
Source: welcometotcccbenefits.com (2026)
What amenities are on the Coca-Cola campus?
Cafés and bistros with free beverages, the Plum Street restaurant, an onsite clinic and pharmacy, a fitness center, dry cleaning, a credit union, outdoor workspaces and technology-enabled huddle rooms, plus bike share and a guaranteed ride home program for commuters.
Source: coca-colacompany.com, Careers: Locations · Ascension Program Management · AIA Georgia
How many people work at Coca-Cola?
About 65,900 employees at the end of 2025, about 8,900 of them in the United States. Together with its bottling partners, the Coca-Cola system employs more than 700,000 people.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 · Coca-Cola media center
How much do Coca-Cola employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $17,947 in 2025 — a part-time barista at Costa Coffee in the U.K. Atlanta headquarters postings in October 2026 listed base pay from $80,300–$95,700 for an executive assistant to $186,000–$226,500 for a senior director.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Coca-Cola careers postings
Who is Coca-Cola's CEO?
Henrique Braun, CEO since March 31, 2026. He succeeded James Quincey, who became Executive Chairman.
Source: coca-colacompany.com, Leadership · Form 10-K FY2025
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