Coca-Cola was the first soft drink sold in a can by the Coca-Cola Company.
Canned Coca-Cola was introduced in 1955, giving consumers a portable package alongside the company’s traditional fountain service and glass bottles. The change reflected broader postwar growth in convenience packaging and the increasing importance of supermarkets, vending machines, travel, and outdoor consumption.
The first cans were not identical to today’s aluminum containers. Early soft-drink cans were made from steel and used packaging designs adapted from Coca-Cola’s established red-and-white branding. Cans eventually became a major part of the company’s global distribution system.
Diet Coke is sometimes assumed to be the first canned Coca-Cola product because it became strongly associated with cans after its 1982 launch. However, the original Coca-Cola drink had already entered cans decades earlier, in 1955.