date:Aug 07, 2012
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Top beverage executives like Muhtar Kent need to cultivate the same hawk-eyed awareness, the same feline sure-footedness as any successful politician, and the diplomacy to point out the obvious to politicians that they need your company for jobs, taxes, inward investment.
At the end of July, Kent was asked by Fox Business Network what he thought of New York anti-soda crusader Michael Bloomberg. Cokes CEO and president suavely answered that he hadimmense respectfor the mayor, and urged the i