Emporia State University may have welcomed Coca-Cola to campus with an exclusive contract, but the Emporia Recreation Commission isn’t interested, at least for now.
Tom McEvoy, director of the Lee Beran Recreation Center, told commissioners during their Monday business meeting that he’d received a proposal from Coca-Cola Bottling of Emporia. In it, the local Coke vendor proposed that ERC grant Coke an exclusive contract to supply products to drink and snack vending machines in the recreation center, along with including Coke’s name or logo on all flyers and publicity documents. In return, Coke would, among other things, pay ERC $1,000 per year.
For some commissioners, that amount of money wouldn’t compensate for the headaches caused.
A big problem with an exclusive contract, commissioners discussed, is that outsiders renting the social hall would not be allowed to bring in outside products that were not Coke products.
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