If the Coca-Cola Co. is indeed acquiring vitamin water maker Glaceau,
president Muhtar Kent sure is holding his cards close to his vest. Despite
Monday's report in trade publication Beverage Digest that Coke had filed a
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act notification with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to
buy Glaceau for $4 billion, Kent refused to comment about it when asked during
the opening of the World of Coca-Cola attraction in the company's home town of
Atlanta. —Matthew Wurtzel
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