It was then a few years later that two entrepreneurs from Chattanooga, Tennessee, namely Benjamin F. Thomas and Joseph B. Whitehead, proposed the idea of bottling and were so persuasive that Candler signed a contract giving them control of the procedure for only one dollar. Candler never collected his dollar, but in 1899, Chattanooga became the site of the first Coca - Cola bottling company. Candler remained very content just selling his company 's syrup. The loosely termed contract proved to be problematic for The Coca - Cola Company for decades to come. Legal matters were not helped by the decision of the bottlers to subcontract to other companies, effectively becoming parent bottlers. This contract specified that bottles would be sold at 5 ¢ each and had no fixed duration, leading to the fixed price of Coca - Cola from 1886 to 1959.
the first bottling agreement with coca-cola took place in which city
Chattanooga Chattanooga