Value Investors Will Be Pleased

13 December 2002

with a decision by Coca Cola to stop providing quarterly and annual ”guidance.”

”Establishing short-term guidance prevents a more meaningful focus on the strategic initiatives that a company is taking to build its business and succeed over the long run,” Coke’s chairman and chief executive, Douglas Daft, said in a prepared statement. ”We are managing this business for the long term.”

The Wall Street Journal

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