UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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FORM
CURRENT REPORT
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| Item 8.01. | Other Events. |
U.S. Dollar-Denominated Notes Offering
On August 14, 2024, The Coca-Cola Company (the “Company”) completed its previously announced public offering of $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.650% Notes due 2034 (the “2034 notes”), $1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.200% Notes due 2055 (the “2055 notes”) and $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.400% Notes due 2064 (the “2064 notes” and, together with the 2034 notes and the 2055 notes, the “Dollar Notes”). The 2064 notes constituted a further issuance of the Company’s 5.400% Notes due 2064, of which $900,000,000 aggregate principal amount was issued on May 13, 2024 (the “existing 2064 notes”) under the Indenture. The 2064 notes have the same CUSIP number and will trade interchangeably with the existing 2064 notes. The offering price of the 2064 notes included accrued interest from, and including, May 13, 2024 to, but excluding, the issue date of the 2064 notes, which was paid by the purchasers of the 2064 notes. After giving effect to the issuance of the 2064 notes, $1,650,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.400% Notes due 2064 was outstanding.
The offering of the Dollar Notes was made pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-268053) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on October 28, 2022.
The Dollar Notes were issued under an Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of April 26, 1988 (as supplemented, the “Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as successor to Bankers Trust Company, as trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 24, 1992, and the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 1, 2007, between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as successor to Bankers Trust Company, as trustee.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering of the Dollar Notes for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions of or investments in businesses or assets and redemption and repayment of short-term or long-term borrowings, as well as for making any potential payments in connection with the Company’s ongoing tax litigation with the United States Internal Revenue Service and the Company’s final contingent consideration payment in 2025 in connection with its acquisition of fairlife, LLC.
The Indenture and the forms of global note for the offering are filed as exhibits to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are 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.
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.
Date: August 14, 2024
| THE COCA-COLA COMPANY | |||
| (REGISTRANT) | |||
| By: | /s/ ERIN MAY | ||
| Name: | Erin May | ||
| Title: | Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer | ||