Coca-Cola European Partners
| Coca-Cola European Partners plc
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| legal form | plc |
| ISIN | GB00BDCPN049 |
| founding | May 28, 2016 |
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Uxbridge , UK
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| Number of employees | 27,000 |
| sales | 12 billion euros |
| Branch | Beverage filling |
| Website | www.ccep.com |
Coca-Cola European Partners plc (CCEP) is the largest independent bottler of beverages for the Coca-Cola Company . The company operates over 50 filling plants in Western Europe .
history
In August 2015, the three major Coca-Cola bottlers in Europe, Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke GmbH , Coca-Cola Enterprises and Coca-Cola Iberian Partners , decided to merge . The merger was implemented by May 28, 2016. The new beverage giant Coca-Cola European Partners is the world's largest independent Coca-Cola bottlers by net operating revenue . The merger was sealed with the IPO on May 31, 2016. Since that date, the shares have initially been traded in Amsterdam, New York and London. The IPO in Spain took place on June 2, 2016.
Companies
Coca-Cola European Partners is a licensee in the following countries: Andorra, Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Great Britain. The previously independently operating bottlers Coca-Cola Enterprises , Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and the German Coca-Cola Erfrischgetränke have combined net sales of eleven billion euros . According to the company, the merger did not put jobs at risk.
Ownership
| proportion of | Companies | |
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| 45% | Free float | |
| 36% | Coca-Cola Iberian Partners |
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| 19% | The Coca-Cola Company |
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Predecessor company
Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE)
Coca-Cola Enterprises has the licenses for Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Coca-Cola Enterprises operates 17 bottling locations.
Coca-Cola Iberian Partners (CCIP)
Coca-Cola Iberian Partners is the Coca-Cola Company's bottling partner for Spain, Portugal and Andorra. Coca-Cola Iberian Partners is responsible for production, packaging, sales and customer service support. The company employs 4,380 people, serves 396,000 customers and reaches more than 55 million consumers. It markets 17 brands and 81 products. Coca-Cola Iberian Partners includes eight soft drink manufacturers, one juice concentrate manufacturer and six mineral water fountains. The company operates 17 bottling plants for soft drinks, one for juice and six mineral water springs.
Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke GmbH (CCEG)
The German Coca-Cola GmbH as a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company is responsible for the overall strategy, growth planning and brand management. In Germany, however, the bottling and distribution of various beverages - following the Coca-Cola licensing system - are subject to Coca-Cola European Partners as the sole licensee . Before the merger, the parent company, the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta , held 100% of Coca-Cola soft drinks . The other bottlers of Coca-Cola beverages operate largely independently and are only supplied with concentrates by the manufacturer . The merger was announced in summer 2015 and completed in May 2016. 8,750 people are employed in Germany and 17 filling locations are operated (as of 2017). In addition to the locations for bottling Coca-Cola Company products, the mineral fountains of Apollinaris , ViO and Sodenthaler are also operated. The Urbacher Mineralquellen were closed on July 1st, 2017.
Coca-Cola European Partners Germany (CCEP), formerly Coca-Cola soft drinks, is the largest German beverage company with a sales volume of 3.9 billion liters (2016). As the concessionaire of the Atlanta -based Coca-Cola Company , she is responsible for bottling, selling and distributing Coca-Cola products in Germany. The CCE AG serves 400,000 retail and catering customers and employs about 9,500 people. The drinks are bottled on site in over 20 production facilities.
Coca-Cola is the best-selling cola drink in 15 of the 16 federal states, as in almost every region of the world. One of the few exceptions is Thuringia , where Vita Cola is the market leader for colas.
history
On April 8, 1929, the Essen sales company for natural beverages in Essen filled the first Coca-Cola bottle in Germany. In the first year 5,840 boxes were sold. In 1930 Coca-Cola GmbH was founded, which, under the direction of Max Keith, replaced the Essen-based sales company for natural beverages . More than 100,000 boxes were sold in Germany as early as 1933. In 1934 there were already more than 120 concessionaires , and a bottling plant was built in Frankfurt am Main . The final breakthrough for Coca-Cola came with the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . The breakthrough in Germany is closely linked to Max Schmeling . The boxing world champion became a concessionaire and prominent figurehead of the brand in Germany after his sports career in 1957.
Keith himself was not a member of the NSDAP , but he was well-disposed towards the German rulers at the time. In 1936 a competitor of his, Karl Flach von Afri-Cola , traveled to the USA to inspect bottling plants and stole a couple of crown caps marked “ kosher ”. As a result, Coca-Cola was denounced in Germany as a “Jewish-American company headed by Harold Hirsch”, who was then on the supervisory board. Keith asked Woodruff to remove Hirsch from the board of directors. However, this refused and is said to have said: "My policy is called Coca-Cola". Keith then broke with the German regime; However, this did not detract from the success of Coca-Cola. Even after the Second World War broke out, the Coca-Cola business continued in Germany. However, it was becoming increasingly difficult for the German subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company to procure raw materials. So in 1940 she invented a new soft drink: Fanta (derived from Fantasie ). Fanta (initially made on a whey basis ) secured the existence of Coca-Cola GmbH when the production of Coca-Cola had to be stopped for the time being in 1942.
In 1949 Coca-Cola production was resumed. Fanta remained popular, in the meantime, however, no longer milchhaltig but as oranges - lemonade . In the following years the Fanta brand became internationally known. In 1962 a new variety was introduced with Fanta Clear Lemon , which also became internationally known from 1968 under the name Sprite .
In July 2003, Coca-Cola GmbH relocated its headquarters from Essen to Berlin in order to be able to work even more economically under one roof with CCEAG , the largest Coca-Cola concessionaire at the time.
After bottling, sales and distribution in Germany were initially divided between different licensees, there has only been one major bottler since September 2007: CCEAG , which, unlike the bottlers in most other countries, belongs directly to the Coca-Cola group.
In 2013, Coca-Cola sold 3.8 billion liters of non-alcoholic beverages in Germany. Since March 25, 2013, the company has its headquarters on Stralauer Allee in Berlin-Friedrichshain ; previously it was located on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin-Mitte for almost 10 years .
2016 was from the CCEAG the Coca-Cola GmbH ( CCEG ). This merged in May 2016 with Coca-Cola Enterprises and Coca-Cola Iberian Partners to form Coca-Cola European Partners , the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola. That is why Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke GmbH was renamed again in August 2016 to Coca-Cola European Partners Deutschland GmbH .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Coca-Cola Enterprises, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG to Form Coca-Cola European Partners. In: The Coca-Cola Company. Retrieved June 1, 2016 .
- ↑ combined number of employees of the predecessor companies
- ↑ https://s24.q4cdn.com/897379916/files/doc_financials/quarterly_reports/2019/q4/CCEP-Prelim-Results-FY19-(final-web).pdf
- ^ A b C. SD Staff: Coca-Cola Enterprises to Create Coca-Cola European Partners. In: Convenience Store Decisions. May 24, 2016, accessed June 1, 2016 .
- ^ Coca-Cola European Partners. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Fusion: Another coke for stock exchange. In: DiePresse.com. Retrieved June 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Coca-Cola European Partners - Shareholder information & tools - Listing & share information. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Coca-Cola Enterprises, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG intend to found Coca-Cola European Partners. In: Coca-Cola Germany. Retrieved June 1, 2016 .
- ^ Coca-Cola GmbH: Company. ( Memento of December 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ↑ At a glance: Coca-Cola in Germany. Accessed August 7, 2015.
- ↑ CCEP DE - data and facts. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, Germany: Mineral water production in Urbach: The last bottle of Urbacher is filled . In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
- ↑ CCEP DE - data and facts. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Coca-Cola Enterprises, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG intend to found Coca-Cola European Partners . In: The Coca-Cola Company . ( coca-cola-deutschland.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Balance sheet Vita-Cola , accessed on August 18, 2020 at otz.de
- ^ Vita Cola story , accessed on July 24, 2012 on the company's homepage
- ↑ a b c 120 Years of Coca-Cola - Chronology of a Brand ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Coca-Cola GmbH press release of May 2, 2006, accessed on April 16, 2010
- ↑ 75 years of Coca-Cola in Germany , (PDF, 2.2 MB) ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Special edition of the Coca-Cola Journal , June 2004, page 4.
- ↑ Data and facts. Accessed August 7, 2015.
- ↑ Coca-Cola Germany: Headquarters now in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg ( Memento from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ CCEG - 2016. In: www.cceag.de. Retrieved June 1, 2016 .
