Beginning with one employee, a mule named âBirdâ and a foot-powered bottling machine, Crawford Johnson Sr. purchased the exclusive franchise rights, in 1902, to bottle and distribute Coca-Cola in Birmingham, Alabama. Today, Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED, Inc. produces and distributes over 750 Coca-Cola products across 7 states. The company employs over 5,700 people in 35 sales centers and 4 production facilities.
The ships of today dwarf most of the biggest warships built during the Second World War. In terms of tonnage, even the 72,000 ton Yamato class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy â the largest warship of World War 2 â falls well short of the 100,000 ton aircraft carriers which have become the norm in the US Navy.
$256 MILLION: The Dilbar is the world's largest yacht by gross tonnage at 15,917 tons (over 31 million pounds). It was built for Alisher Usmanov, a Russian billionaire. The Dilbar has two helipads, an indoor swimming pool, and 3,800 square meters of living space.