Coca-Cola's Top Executives

The Executives and Directors of the Coca-Cola Company understand the incredible harm their policies are doing to workers, the environment and to children throughout the world, yet they continue without conscience in their ruthless quest for profits.

Muhtar Kent
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
The Coca-Cola Company

Bilderberg Group, Attendee
US-China Business Council, Chairman

Compensation:

2012 - $30,460,186
2011 - $29,115,573
2010 - $24,782,017
2009 - $18,813,013
2008 - $22,421,347

Muhtar Kent followed in the footsteps of previous Board Chairman and CEO E. Neville Isdell by repeatedly lying to shareholders present at the April 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 annual meetings and many others watching the meetings on webcasts.

At these annual meetings, Kent typically responds to questions raised by Campaign Director Ray Rogers by first stating that Rogers's accusations are "unfounded;" that his accusations have "no merit" and that there is no truth to issues raised regarding Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador and racial discrimination in the U.S.

However, each year Kent has been taken to task by several reporters in Mexico because there are outstanding labor and criminal lawsuits by a former 16-year employee and top marketing executive of The Coca-Cola Co. The plaintiff, Angel Alvarado Agüero, alleges that the company pressured him to act illegally to destroy all competition at the 700,000 mom and pop stores in Mexico. When he refused, he was forcibly and unjustifiably dismissed and denied substantial compensation owed to him. In the past, Coke had been fined millions of dollars for engaging in similar monopolistic activity in Mexico.

But even worse, this case highlights how The Coca-Cola Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, The Coca-Cola Export Corp., conspired to illegally cheat Mexican workers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in pay and profit sharing and the Mexican government out of millions in tax revenues.

In addition, Kent stated that all court cases have been dismissed, yet there is an outstanding case that was filed in the State Supreme Court of New York on February 25, 2010, accusing Coke and its operations in Guatemala of murder, rape and attempted murder directed at union leaders and family members.

Because of Kent's lies with respect to Mexico, Ray Rogers filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) accusing Muhtar Kent of committing actionable fraud on the market by instigating and continuing a cover-up of factual information concerning a series of lawsuits and investigations by Mexican regulators against the company. These actions, festering in Mexico for the past several years, could have a material effect, well into the billions of dollars, and negatively impact the company's share price and brand value.

Unfortunately, labor, human rights and environmental abuses throughout The Coca-Cola System continue to pile up worldwide.

SEC Complaint against Coca-Cola and two Updates: http://killercoke.org/complaint_filed_with_sec_regarding_mexico.php

Muhtar Kent and Insider Stock Trading:

It should be noted that Kent was implicated in an insider trading scandal. According to TheStreet.com (1/20/06):

"It seems that in the fall of 1996, as a managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil-Europe, Kent sold short 100,000 shares of the bottler - just before a profit warning clipped the stock. Kent said back then that he believed the sale was legal and that he hadn't been influenced by any information about Amatil's results.

"Australian regulators didn't see it that way. So the next year, Kent settled an insider trading complaint with the Australian Securities Commission. Without admitting wrongdoing, Kent agreed to repay about $400,000 in profit from the transaction, plus $50,000 to help cover the cost of the investigation.

"Kent resigned from Amatil in September 1997. "He thought it was in his and the company's best interests," his spokesman told Sydney's Daily Telegraph at the time...

"'This was neither an insider issue nor were any company rules violated,' a Coke spokesman told The Wall Street Journal. 'It basically was a situation where Muhtar was provided with incorrect financial advice. When he discovered it was incorrect he moved immediately to remedy the situation.'

"You aren't alone if you find that explanation a little flat."

Ahmet C. Bozer
Executive Vice President
The Coca-Cola Co.
President
Coca-Cola International

Compensation:

2012 - $7,343,119
2011 - $7,790,905
2010 - $6,394,607

Steven A. Cahillane
Executive Vice President
The Coca-Cola Company
President
Coca-Cola Americas

Compensation:

2012 - $6,149,084
2011 - $6,889,847

The American Beverage Association, Director

Alexander B. Cummings
Chief Administrative Officer
Executive Vice President
The Coca-Cola Company

Compensation:

2012 - N/A
2011 - N/A
2010 - N/A
2009 - $8,178,662
2008 - $8,040,998

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, Director
Clark Atlanta University, Trustee
S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Director

J. Alexander M. Douglas, Jr.
Senior Vice President
Global Chief Customer Officer
The Coca-Cola Company

Compensation:

2012 - N/A
2011 - N/A
2010 - $7,100,257

American Beverage Association, Board member
Grocery Manufacturers Association, Board member
Morehouse College, Board member

Gary P. Fayard
Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President
The Coca-Cola Company

Compensation:

2012 - $8,222,962
2011 - $8,524,572
2010 - $8,268,766
2009 - $5,755,536
2008 - $7,123,004

Coca-Cola FEMSA, Board member

Fayard was also a director of Colombian bottler Panamco prior to Panamco's merger with Coca-Cola FEMSA. Prior to joining the Company, Fayard served 19 years with Ernst & Young, concluding his service there as a partner, area director of audit services, and area director of manufacturing services. Ernst & Young are now Coca-Cola's "independent" auditors.