Coca-Cola thinks Americans are finally ready for Coke with coffee

[JonLP24]

New York (CNN Business) In 2006, Coca-Cola launched Coca-Cola Blak, a coffee-flavored version of its signature product. People didn't like it, and the beverage flopped. Coke stopped selling the product in 2008, just two years after it launched.

Bad timing caused the failure, said Nancy Quan, the company's chief technical officer.

"That was a trend before its time," Quan told CNN Business. "I don't think people were ready to have a coffee portfolio within the Coca-Cola brand."

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Over the past few years, Coke has been releasing a similar product called Coca-Cola Plus Coffee or Coca-Cola With Coffee in international markets. The new product contains more real coffee than Blak did. There's also an additional caffeine jolt: The product is more caffeinated than regular Coke.


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[katmondoo]

1. Coke is one of the worse things for your health yet people drink it like water

If it were up to me I would ban all types of coke products. Children get addicted to it.

[blogslut]

2. Fizzy coffee is a thing.

I like to mix my cold brew with either ginger ale or root beer, also plain seltzer on occasion. Not sure I want it mixed with Coke but it doesn't upset me.