Duane Stanford, who has covered Coca-Cola Co. for Bloomberg News for nearly eight years out of its Atlanta bureau, has left the news service.
In an email to his colleagues, Stanford wrote:
I will be permitted soon enough to disclose my new destination. For now, though, I thank you for your friendship, humor and collaboration. It is with mixed feelings that I depart at this time of great organizational change, when opportunity here is all around. To remain a part of the evolution was quite tempting. At the same time, I could hardly be more excited about what’s next. Bloomberg News is urgent, important and a little weird. I am so glad I was a part of it.
Stanford joined Bloomberg in November 2007 from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His beat also included PepsiCo Inc., Starbucks and bottling companies such as Coca-Cola Enterprises.
Stanford began covering Coca-Cola and the beverage industry for the Atlanta paper in October 2006. He has been a reporter at the newspaper since 1992, covering topics ranging from local government to the governor’s office and statewide transportation policy.
Stanford, born in Atlanta and raised in Memphis, came back to his hometown in the late 1980s to attend Oglethorpe University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree.
