The Coca-Cola Company elected to keep their recipe secret so others could not copy it. The formula is not pateneted because 1) the patent would long ago have expired, and 2) a patent must state what is being patented and the formula would have to be given and could have been copied immediately.
Over the last 100 years Coca-Cola has enjoyed being the only company on the market able to reproduce the flavor precisely, and they have also enjoyed the economic benefit of doing so. As long as Coca-Cola has taken reasonable steps to keep their formula a secret, they would be able to prosecute anyone that would try to "steal" the secret from them under "Trade Secret" laws.
No one know, only 7 people in the world know the secret ingredient. Not even the people who work in the factories know what it is.
No one knows the entire secret recipe, and no one knows who has the two parts either.
On the one hand, Coca Cola will claim that only a few high executives and employees know the "real" recipe. On the other hand, there have been plenty of publications of the founder's diary that had a recipe for it, and there has also been extensive chemical analysis of the drink. Given that, one need do little more than google "Coca Cola Formula", to get what must surely be very close to "the" recipe, if not the actual one used.
It's a secret recipe that only the cooks in the store know. They have to sign a confidentiality contract.
8 - 10
2 people exactly.
People have many secrets. If anyone except from Miley would know about her secret, it wouldn't be a secret.
Are you stupid? A secret government is what the name implies it to be. A secret government is a government that's secret. Probably the secret is kept from the government so that the government won't know about so that we the people won't know about this secret government, and there's a possibility of the government is keeping the secret government "secret".
The Philistines.
the israelites
It is hardly a secret if people know about it. It may also be a falsehood
You will never know. Its a secret mwahahaha.