• Ownership and Corporate Organization
• Additional History
• Counties and Major Suppliers

NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, INC., is a Mississippi corporation and is wholly owned by C. C. Clark, Inc. It is the surviving corporation after merging plants in Aberdeen, Houston, Louisville, Starkville and West Point. In 1984 this corporation acquired Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Inc. of Columbus, Mississippi and Gordo Bottling Works, Inc. of Gordo, Alabama. In 1985 it acquired Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc. of Philadelphia, Mississippi. In 1986, it purchased New Albany Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New Albany, Mississippi. This marked the repurchase of the Clark's first Coca-Cola franchise, eighty years after its origination. In April 1988, Northeast acquired the Dr Pepper franchise for the New Albany Coca-Cola franchise area and the remaining area in its Mississippi territory where it did not already hold the Dr Pepper franchise. Northeast conducts business in the Mississippi counties of Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Ittawamba, Lafayette, Leake, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishimingo, Union, Webster, Winston, and the Alabama counties of Fayette, Lamar, Pickens, and Tuscaloosa. It maintains sales and warehouse facilites in Starkville, and New Albany. This corporation has franchises with The Coca-Cola Company, Dr Pepper Company, Minute Maid Juices, Chocolate Group, Evian Water, Coors, Pabst, Stroh, Heineken USA, and various other imports and domestic beer.