The Coca-Cola Company
Lobbying client
The Coca-Cola Company is the Atlanta-based beverage maker behind Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta and other soft drink brands. In New York City, it has filed 36 lobbying disclosures since 2024 across citywide scope, reaching all 51 council members and reporting $310,430 in compensation to lobbyists Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies and Statewide Public Affairs, on subjects including board and commission determinations, non-alcoholic beverage industry legislation, health-related issues, and company positions on sustainability and consumer preference. A 2025 trade-press report on New York State lobbying filings named Coca-Cola, along with companies including ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell and McDonald's, among those lobbying against the state's Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act, a bill that would require single-use plastic packaging cuts and extended producer responsibility rules for packaging makers.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 36
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $330,430
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Statewide Public Affairs, Inc. Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - determination
- Determination of Board or Commission - special permits
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Any legislation related to the non-alcoholic beverage industry
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues affecting the beverage industry
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues relating to health
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Lobbying for principles that are in line with company's priorities of sustainability and consumer preference.
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - issues effecting Coca-Cola