ESWATINI – Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) has acquired 60 percent shareholding in the soft drinks business of Eswatini Beverages. The non-alcoholic ready-to-drink business in Eswatini, in which the remaining 40 percent is owned by Sovereign […]
SOUTH AFRICA – Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Africa has announced the appointment of Jacques Vermeulen as the group’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective December 1, 2018. He succeeds Doug Jackson, […]
ASIA – The world’s beverage giants are planning to invest in Pakistan with PepsiCo lining up US$1.2 billion in the next five years while Coca-Cola will further invest US$200 million in the coming two to […]
UK – Major global businesses among them Coca-Cola European Partners, Danone and Unilever have called on the UK’s Prime Minister (PM) Theresa May to aim for net zero emissions in the UK by 2050. In […]
INDIA – Nestle SA, the Swiss transnational and the world’s largest food company is contending Unilever in the final round of negotiations to acquire GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer nutrition business in India. According to three people aware […]
USA– The Coca-Cola Company plans to roll out a range of energy drinks for the first time on its iconic Coca-Cola brand name as it intensifies efforts to break away from its traditional fizzy sodas […]
EUROPE – Coca-Cola, the world’s soft drinks producer, has said it has “temporarily paused” some production because of the shortage of CO2 gas, even though the shortage so far has not affected supplies. BBC reported […]
MEXICO – Arca Continental, a Mexican beverage manufacturing and distribution company, has made plans to invest US$250 million to build a new distribution and production facility in Houston through its subsidiary Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages (CCSWB). […]
KENYA – Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), Africa’s biggest non-alcoholic beverages bottler said on Wednesday May 30 that it would invest US$100m in Kenya with an aim to improve infrastructure and launch new products, reported Reuters. […]
USA – The Coca-Cola company has announced a US$1.2bn investment in Argentina over the next three years to 2021, aimed at improving operations and expand production in the country. The new investment adds to the […]
