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Coca-Cola Internships

Speaking of interning for iconic brands (a favorite statement of consumer package goods marketing folks), you couldn't get more iconic than Coca-Cola.  This is a company who's 125 year history started when pharmacist, Dr. John Pemberton, carried a jug of Coca-Cola® syrup to Jacobs’ Pharmacy in downtown Atlanta, where it was mixed with carbonated water and sold for five cents a glass.  Even Coca-Cola's first bottle has been entered into the records of marketing brilliance, as the bottler wanted to make sure you could recognize you were drinking authentic Coca-Cola even in the dark, distributing the beverage in a curvy shaped of the glass.

The Coca-Cola Company has grown from selling a modest 9 drinks a day in 1886 to 1.7 billion a day.  Their products are available in more than 200 countries.  They've grown beyond the original Coca-Cola and now market more than 500 brands beyond Coca-Cola.   

 

 

Here's what Coca-Cola says about their internships.

 

Graduate and undergraduate interns at The Coca-Cola Company are presented with challenging and rewarding projects and assignments. They gain real world experience, exposure to The Coca-Cola Company operations, and have the opportunity to participate as a member of the workforce of the world's most recognized brand.

Our graduate interns are most often sought after in Marketing and Finance functions.

•Marketing interns work on exciting projects such as packaging redesign, new product launches and line extensions.
•Finance interns work on strategic projects involving financial modeling, quantitative methods and cost accounting.

Undergraduate interns benefit from learning beyond the classroom when they gain hands-on experience with the world's leading beverage company. Undergraduate interns are sought after for a variety of functions.

 

Coca-Cola does its intern recruiting through U.S. colleges and universities.  International internships are currently posted on Coca-Cola's site.   The Coca-Cola Company suggests you contact your school's career services center.  www.foodandbeveragepeople.com highly recommends that for any internships  you speak with your school's department heads and key professors in addition to the career services center.  Because of a growing number of academic-corporate alliances, the professors at many universities have critical connections to industry leaders.