What we do
We produce, sell and distribute a wide range of non-alcoholic beverages. These include four of the world’s best selling brands, owned by The Coca-Cola Company: Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Light (diet Coke), Fanta and Sprite.
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In addition, our portfolio includes sparkling and still beverages, such as: - iced tea
- juice and juice drinks
- natural mineral, table and flavoured waters
- sports and energy drinks
- iced coffee
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The majority of these brands are owned by The Coca-Cola Company, but include a number of our own.
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Key bottler for The Coca-Cola Company
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We are one of The Coca-Cola Company’s key bottlers, which reflects our strategic importance within the Coca-Cola bottling system. We work closely with The Coca-Cola Company, using our respective skills and assets to increase sales in our countries and to, ultimately, increase value to our shareholders over the long-term. |
Balanced market portfolio
Our established countries provide us with a stable source of revenues and cash flow, while our developing and emerging countries provide us with significant growth opportunities.
This balance allows us to:
- minimise external financing of our long-term growth
- reduce earnings volatility
- limit our exposure to the effects of potential economic or political instability in our developing and emerging countries
Significant markets with high growth potential
We believe that many of our developing and emerging countries are underdeveloped in terms of sparkling and non-sparkling beverage consumption.
For example, the Russian Federation and Nigeria account for more than half of the total population of our countries. In 2007, they had a sparkling beverage consumption of just over 100 servings per capita annually, compared to over 300 servings per capita in Western Europe.
Additionally, as the beverage of choice in our emerging and developing countries continues to evolve from tap water and homemade drinks toward branded sparkling and non-sparkling drinks, we believe that we are well positioned to capture a substantial share of this market growth.
There is an opportunity for sales revenue growth in these countries through increased market penetration. Also, countries such as Nigeria generally have a more favourable demographic profile for sparkling beverage consumption since there are larger numbers of young people who generally consume more.
Modern business infrastructure
Since 2001, we have invested more than €2.7 billion in property, plant and equipment. We are modernising our plant infrastructure and expanding the availability of cold drink equipment such as coolers.
As a result, we believe that we have the production capacity and distribution infrastructure to:
- meet volume growth at a relatively low incremental capital cost
- expand the availability of our products, especially the more profitable single-serve packages
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