UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):
March 3, 2015 (February 26, 2015)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware |
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001-02217 |
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58-0628465 |
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One Coca-Cola Plaza |
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30313 |
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(Address of principal executive offices) |
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(Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (404) 676-2121
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
o Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
On February 26, 2015, The Coca-Cola Company (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement, dated February 26, 2015 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Company, Barclays Bank PLC, HSBC Bank plc, Merrill Lynch International and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, as representatives of the several underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriters”), and the other several Underwriters party thereto, relating to the Company’s public offering of €2,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Floating Rate Notes due 2017, €2,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Floating Rate Notes due 2019, €1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 0.75% Notes due 2023, €1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 1.125% Notes due 2027 and €1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 1.625% Notes due 2035 (collectively, the “Notes”).
The offering of the Notes was made pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-191953) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on October 28, 2013.
Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Company agreed to sell the Notes to the Underwriters, and the Underwriters agreed to purchase the Notes for resale to the public. The Underwriting Agreement includes customary representations, warranties and covenants by the Company. It also provides for customary indemnification by each of the Company and the Underwriters against certain liabilities and customary contribution provisions in respect of those liabilities.
The Company expects the offering of the Notes to close on March 9, 2015, subject to customary closing conditions.
The Underwriting Agreement is filed as an exhibit to this current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
In reviewing the agreements included as exhibits to this report, please remember they are included to provide you with information regarding their terms and are not intended to provide any other factual or disclosure information about the Company or the other parties to the agreements. The agreements contain representations and warranties by each of the parties to the applicable agreement. These representations and warranties have been made solely for the benefit of the other parties to the applicable agreement and:
· should not in all instances be treated as categorical statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating the risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate;
· may have been qualified by disclosures that were made to the other party in connection with the negotiation of the applicable agreement, which disclosures are not necessarily reflected in the agreement;
· may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material to you or other investors; and
· were made only as of the date of the applicable agreement or such other date or dates as may be specified in the agreement and are subject to more recent developments.
Accordingly, these representations and warranties may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time. Additional information about the Company may be found elsewhere in this report and the Company’s other public filings, which are available without charge through the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.
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Exhibit 1.1 |
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Underwriting Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2015, among The Coca-Cola Company, Barclays Bank PLC, HSBC Bank plc, Merrill Lynch International and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, and the other several underwriters party thereto |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | |
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Date: March 3, 2015 |
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/s/ Larry M. Mark |
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Name: Larry M. Mark |
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Title: Vice President and Controller |