The Baton Rouge Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) honored Baton Rouge Coca-Cola Bottling Company Tuesday evening, October 22, 2013 with a 2013 Douglas Manship, Sr. Torch Award for Ethics in Business.  A banquet was hosted by the Better Business Bureau honoring (4) four businesses, each representing categories based on business size.  Baton Rouge Coca-Cola won for the category representing 300+ employees.

The Better Business Bureau established this prestigious award in 2001 in memory of Douglas Manship, Sr., to recognize outstanding Baton Rouge area businesses that maintain high ethical standards of behavior toward customers, suppliers, employees and the communities in which they do business.