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- BUSINESS, Page 57Business NotesCORPORATE HISTORYRemember the Real Thing
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- By the time a product has been around for a century or
- more, it has produced mountains of nostalgia-inducing
- memorabilia. At Coca-Cola (age: 104), that history had been
- gathering dust in the company's Atlanta archives until several
- years ago, when Coke realized its marketing value. Last week
- the company opened a $15 million corporate museum called the
- World of Coca-Cola (admission: $2.50). The three-story building
- houses more than 1,000 artifacts, memorabilia and documents,
- ranging from 75-year-old green-glass bottles to advertising
- posters with tag lines like "The Ideal Brain Tonic" and "Coke
- Is It."
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- Corporate museums are gaining in popularity, in part because
- many companies have closed down their plant tours to protect
- secrets and to avoid liability for visitors who might be
- injured. Among the corporate shrines currently open are the
- Frederick's of Hollywood Lingerie Museum and the Tupperware
- Visitors' Center and Museum in Orlando.
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