Coca-Cola doesn't make money from selling cans of soda. Here's what it sells instead.

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Coke (NYSE: KO) doesn’t even make most of the Coca-Cola cans you see; it does something completely different. Most of the beverage giant’s revenue comes from selling syrups and concentrates to bottlers, the front lines selling Coca-Cola’s products.

In this video, Travis Hoium explains how the business works and why Coca-Cola outsourced bottling to the US and around the world.

*The stock prices used were end-of-day prices as of December 12, 2023. The video was published on December 13, 2023.

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