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Coca-Cola Enterprises

Coca-Cola Enterprises
Industry Beverages
Fate merged with Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, S.A. and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG
Successor
Founded 1986
Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Key people
Products The Coca-Cola Company Products
Other Soft Drinks
Revenue IncreaseUS$7.6 Billion (FY 2012)
IncreaseUS$914 Million (FY 2013)
IncreaseUS$677 Million (FY 2012)
Total assets IncreaseUS$9.09 Billion (FY 2011)
Total equity DecreaseUS$2.90 Billion (FY 2011)
Number of employees
13,250 (2011)
Website www.cokecce.com

Coca-Cola Enterprises is a marketer, producer, and distributor of Coca-Cola products. It is the anchor bottler for Western Europe, and was formerly the anchor bottler for most of North America.

Coca-Cola Enterprises' products include Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Fanta, Capri-Sun, Dr Pepper, Chaudfontaine, Schweppes,Monster and Relentless.

The Coca-Cola Company decided to consolidate the many independent bottling groups in the Coca-Cola System. Previously, independent businesses in small geographic areas, generally a central city or town and its hinterland, bottled Coca-Cola products and distributed these to stores.

In 1980, Coca-Cola acquired the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New York for $215 million. In 1982, Coca-Cola acquired the Associated Coca-Cola Bottling Company for $417.5 million. In 1986, Coca-Cola acquired the bottling operations of Beatrice Foods and the bottling operations of the Lupton family. Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. was spun off from The Coca-Cola Company in 1986.

After buying these bottlers, Coca-Cola spun this function off to anchor bottlers in various parts of the world. Coca-Cola Enterprises continued to acquire regional bottlers throughout the 1990s.

The company has its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and is separate from The Coca-Cola Company; both companies are listed on the and are components of the S&P 500.

Similar anchor bottlers are the South Pacific area's Coca-Cola Amatil, Eastern Europe's Coca-Cola Hellenic, and Latin America's Coca-Cola FEMSA.


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