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The Annual Meeting of Share Owners of The Coca-Cola Company, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), will be held at The Playhouse Theatre, Du Pont Building, 10th and Market Streets, Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday, April 15, 1998, at 9:00 a.m., local time. The purposes of the meeting are:
1. To elect three Directors to serve until the 2001 Annual Meeting of
Share Owners;
2. To ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP
as independent auditors of the Company to serve for the 1998 fiscal year; and
3. To transact such other business as may properly come before the
meeting and at any adjournments or postponements of the meeting.
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ELECTION OF DIRECTORS AND APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS OWNERSHIP OF EQUITY SECURITIES IN THE COMPANY Information regarding beneficial ownership of Company Common Stock by each Director, the Company's five most highly compensated executive officers and the Directors and executive officers of the Company as a group, all as of February 20, 1998, and by Mr. Goizueta on the date of his death. Information as of February 20, 1998 with respect to persons known to the Company to be the beneficial owners of more than five percent of the Company's issued and outstanding stock: COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS; MEETINGS AND COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS In accordance with the By-Laws of the Company, the Board of Directors has established an Executive Committee, a Finance Committee, an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee, a Committee on Directors and a Public Issues Review Committee. All committees except the Executive Committee are composed entirely of outside Directors. James B. Williams, Warren E. Buffett, Sam Nunn and James D. Robinson III Compensation paid in 1997 and the two prior fiscal years to the Company's Chief Executive Officer and the Company's four other most highly compensated executive officers. Mr. Goizueta's compensation is also discussed, since he served as Chief Executive Officer until his death in October 1997. This table sets forth the annual retirement benefits payable under the Employee Retirement Plan of The Coca-Cola Company (the "Retirement Plan", described below), the retirement portion of the Supplemental Plan and The Coca-Cola Company Key Executive Retirement Plan (the "Key Executive Plan", described below) upon retirement at age 65 or later based on an employee's assumed average annual compensation for the five-year period preceding retirement and assuming actual retirement on January 1, 1998. THE REPORT OF THE COMPENSATION COMMITTEE OF THE BOARDOF DIRECTORS AND PERFORMANCE In accordance with rules adopted in 1992 by the Securities and Exchange Commission, as amended in 1993, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of The Coca-Cola Company and related subcommittees (the "Committees") offer this report regarding compensation policies for executive officers and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
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* Source - Coca-Cola corporate filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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