It was then a few years later that two entrepreneurs fromChattanooga, Tennessee, namelyBenjamin F. ThomasandJoseph B. Whitehead, proposed the idea of bottling and were so persuasive that Candler signed a contract giving them control of the procedure for only one dollar.[31]Candler never collected his dollar, but in 1899, Chattanooga became the site of the first Coca-Cola bottling company. Candler remained very content just selling his company's syrup.[32]The loosely termed contract proved to be problematic for The Coca-Cola Company for decades to come. Legal matters were not helped by the decision of the bottlers to subcontract to other companies, effectively becoming parent bottlers.[33]This contract specified that bottles would be sold at 5¢ each and had no fixed duration, leading tothe fixed price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959.