ATLANTA - Coca-Cola says second-quarter profit fell 23 percent as it took a one-time charge related to its bottler.

The world's biggest beverage company reported Thursday that it earned $1.42 billion, or 61 cents per share, compared with $1.85 billion, or 80 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter.

Coca-Cola says that excluding one-time items, per-share earnings were $1.01.

Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected profit of 96 cents per share on revenue of $8.93 billion, on average.

Revenue rose 17 percent to $9.05 billion from $7.73 billion a year earlier.