Coca-Cola Amatil Limited (CCA) was an Australian bottler of non-alcoholic beverages that existed from 1904 to 2021, when it merged with Coca-Cola European Partners to form Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. It was one of the largest bottlers of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the Asia-Pacific region and one of the world’s five major Coca-Cola bottlers. CCA operated in six countries—Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Samoa. The company also bottled beer and coffee.
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“Coca-Cola Amatil History
The company’s Australian origins date back to 1904 as the tobacco company British Tobacco (Australia). Its first foray into soft drinks came in 1964 with the purchase of Coca-Cola Bottlers (Perth), and the company was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1972.
Soft drinks and snack foods gradually became the primary focus of the company, which was renamed Amatil Limited in 1977. It began to expand bottling operations overseas in Europe, purchasing a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Australia in 1982 and expanding into Fiji and New Zealand in 1987. A majority stake was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company in 1989, although today its ownership is 29%.
The snack food operations were sold in 1992, and European operations were spun off into a new company, Coca-Cola Beverages, in 1998. Expansion into Asia continued, though Filipino bottling was eventually sold to San Miguel Brewery and parent The Coca-Cola Company.
Coca-Cola Amatil’s Group Managing Director is Alison Watkins, and the board chairman is David Gonski.
CCA has facilities all over Australia, with key sites at Northmead (NSW), North Sydney (NSW), Richlands (Qld), Moorabbin (VIC), Thebarton (SA) and Kewdale (WA).
From 2006 to 2011, CCA had a joint venture (named Pacific Beverages) with SABMiller to distribute its drinks in Australia. In 2011, SABMiller acquired Foster’s Group and full ownership of Pacific Beverages; in exchange, Foster’s sold its Fiji and Samoa operations to Coca-Cola Amatil in 2012.”
Products
CCA’s diversified portfolio of products included carbonated soft drinks, spring water, sports drinks and energy drinks, fruit juices, iced tea, flavoured milk, coffee, tea and alcohol. Coca-Cola Amatil distributed a number of sparkling, still and other non-alcoholic beverages. Some of these include:
Water
- Mount Franklin Water
- Pump
- Neverfail
- Peats Ridge Pure
- AdeS (Indonesia)
- Aquarius Water
- Kiwi Blue (New Zealand)
- Pure Drop (New Zealand)
- Nature’s Own Water (Papua New Guinea)
Non-alcoholic beverages
- Coca-Cola
- Diet Coke
- Coca-Cola Vanilla
- Leed
- Sprite
- Sprite Zero
- Fanta
- Lift
- Lemon & Paeroa
- Deep Spring
- Mother
- Kirks
- Bisleri
- Glaceau Vitamin Water
- Powerade
- e2
- Nestea
- Australian Bitters Company
- Goulburn Valley
- Grinders Coffee
- Lemon & Paeroa
- Lift plus
- Kiwi Blue
- Keri Juice
- Rose’s Cordial Lemon
- Fuze Tea
- Barista Bros
Alcoholic beverages
- Maker’s Mark
- Jim Beam
- Knob Creek
- Booker’s
- Basil Hayden’s
- Vox
- Vodka O
- Canadian Club
- Old Crow
- Kilbeggan Distillery
- Sauza Tequila
- Laphroaig distillery
- Galliano
- Bols
- Pressman’s Cider
- Australian Beer Co Alehouse
- Arvo
- Coors Brewers
- vonu
- Fiji Bitter
- Blue Moon
- Samuel Adams
- Bounty Rum
Beer & cider
- Blue Moon
- Coors
- Feral Brewing Company
- Magners
- Miller Brewing Company
- Pressman’s Apple Cider
- Rekorderlig
- Vailima
- Yenda Brewing Company
Hot beverages[edit]
*Information from Forbes.com and Wikipedia.org
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