Coca-Cola Holiday Caravan Makes Spirits Bright For San Jose Residents

Caravan Visitors Encouraged to Donate Unwrapped Gifts for Toys For Tots; Have Pictures Made With the Coca-Cola Polar Bear;
Coca-Cola Donates $15,000 to Help Local Children in Need

Coca-Cola:

Larry Loeffler and Idalia Rodriguez with Coca Cola present 1st Sgt. Daniel Best a check of $15,000 for San Jose Toys for Tots. (Photo: Business Wire)

WHAT:              Let it glow, let it glow, let it glow! The Coca-Cola Holiday
                   Caravan,

                   illuminated by 25,000 red and white sparkling lights, will
                   roll into

                   San Jose and spread the spirit of the holidays.

                   This year, the Caravan will help celebrate Coca-Cola's
                   national partnership

                   with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program by
                   collecting gifts

                   and toys for children in San Jose.

                   People can visit the festive wonderland at the San Jose
                   Holiday Fair on

                   December 10, drop off gifts for Toys for Tots and have their
                   picture taken

                   with the Coca Cola Polar Bear. In the spirit of giving,
                   Coca-Cola has made a

                   $15,000 donation to the San Jose Toys for Tots to help
                   provide underprivileged

                   kids with gifts this holiday season.

WHEN:              December 10, 2010 at 2:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

WHERE:             City of San Jose's Christmas in the Park

                   Plaza de Cesar Chavez

                   170 South Market Street, in downtown San Jose

PHOTO/INTERVIEW

OPPORTUNITIES      Interviews are available with

                   o Sergeant Daniel P. Best of the U.S. Marine Corps (in dress
                   blues) on behalf of

                   Toys for Tots San Jose

                   o Larry Loeffler on behalf of Coca-Cola

                   Photo opportunities include:

                   -- View the 64-foot long, 13-foot high Coca-Cola Caravan
                   decked out with 25,000

                   sparkling red and white lights

                   -- The Coca-Cola Polar Bear interacting with local residents

                   -- Toys being collected for local children

Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=6538921&lang=en

    Source: Coca-Cola

Released December 8, 2010