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...Among big cap US stocks yesterday, some of the largest losers were snack and sweet drinks giants such as Mondelez, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Kraft-Heinz....
...Coca-Cola chief executive James Quincey said consumers were not yet cutting back on purchases of the company’s products, but added: “A typically recessionary pattern . . . would be consumers initially stop...
...Annual sales of nearly $45bn puts Mars ahead of Coca-Cola and makes it one of the biggest privately owned businesses in the world, with more than 140,000 employees in 80 countries....
...Several strong earning results helped lift investor sentiment on Wednesday, with Coca-Cola raising its full-year sales and profit forecasts as it anticipated surging demand from reopened restaurants and...
...Appropriately, Coca-Cola European Partners has itself offered a sweetener in its pursuit of Australian counterpart Coca-Cola Amatil....
...“Voluntary separation” will be offered to 4,000 of the beverage maker’s employees in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico while similar schemes would be offered to an undisclosed number of workers in other countries...
...That was the year he paid $12bn for the US assets of Coca-Cola Enterprises, its largest bottling partner, shaking up a century-old relationship that had separated the brand from the bottling franchisees...
...developments to 18 Coca-Cola bottling plants....
...Three decades after his influential book was published, the phrase was cited by Coca-Cola in the investor presentation for its £3.9bn purchase of Costa Coffee from Whitbread....
...Coca-Cola’s moves to make its drinks more appetising to millennials are paying off....
...Keurig Dr Pepper may not match the scale of giants like Coca-Cola. But it has Nestlé, the biggest coffee group in the world, in its sights....
...Investors will look to the latest update on their quest this week, as PepsiCo and Coca-Cola report their earnings for the final three months of 2017....
...The pool of capital is instrumental in financing Berkshire’s acquisitions as well as its equity stakes in companies including Apple, IBM and Coca-Cola. Mr Buffett continues to seek large deals....
...The Atlanta-based company has been selling off chunks of its bottling divisions to diversify away from fizzy drinks....
...Coca-Cola has bought a minority stake in the Nigerian juice and dairy company CHI....
...Many liken the threat to the industry of greater taxes and regulation with curbs on tobacco — and say they could prove just as detrimental to the likes of Pepsi, Coca-Cola and other fizzy drink manufacturers...
...Coca-Cola Company, however, still has bottling operations outside the US including via a German company it owns, Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke....
...A tie-up would follow last year’s agreement between SABMiller, the brewing and beverage company, and the Coca-Cola Company to combine their bottling businesses in 12 African countries....
...The Coca-Cola Company is also in the process of refranchising its US bottling operations, with the aim of having two-thirds of them in franchisee hands by 2017, up from roughly a quarter now....
...levels as it established a bottling partnership with Coca-Cola....
...Merrill Lynch, who never liked the shares, add the risk of Coca-Cola raising the price of the gloop or even removing a territory or two from HBC....
...Thus Bacardí now produces a single, white Havana Club rum in Puerto Rico and sells it to the US....
...A number of Western multinationals are weighing up deepening investment in the country. In 2Q15, Coca-Cola broke ground on a second $100m bottling plant in the Phnom Penh SEZ....
...Restructuring Coca-Cola’s Bottling Operations 1. Why is there not more robust financial disclosure regarding Coca-Cola Refreshments (CCR), its North American bottling and distribution segment?...
...Copa Holdings, a Latin American airline whose destinations include the Cuban capital, Havana; Coca-Cola Femsa, the Mexican bottler, and Royal Caribbean Cruises were among the fund’s largest holdings at the...
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