Coca-Cola Hellenic
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The Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (Greek: Coca-Cola Ελληνική Εταιρεία Εμφιαλώσεως) is an anchor bottler in the Coca-Cola System and the second largest bottler outside the United States. It is the bottler in 28 countries, primarially in eastern Europe, with a population totaling 540 million.[1] The company's stock is 30% owned by the Coca-Cola Company and the remaining interest trades on the New York Stock Exchange, Australian Stock Exchange [ASX] and the Athens Stock Exchange. The company's headquarters is in Athens, Greece.
The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola and its other soft drink products in most formerly communist countries. It controls Coca-Cola distribution in all of the former Soviet Union except the central Asian republics and all of the former communist nations of eastern Europe except Albania and eastern Germany. It is also the bottler in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland as well as Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Nigeria and the northern two-thirds of Italy.
The company in 2003 produced 1.3 billion equilivant unit cases of soft drinks. A unit case represents 24 standard servings.
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- ^ Emling, Shelley. "Coke cultivates European tastes", Cox News Service, 2007-10-12. Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
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