Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company

Coca-Cola HBC A.G. also known as Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company or just Coca-Cola Hellenic is the world’s third-largest Coca-Cola anchor bottler in terms of volume with sales of more than 2 billion unit cases. Coca-Cola HBC’s shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange with a secondary listing on the Athens Stock Exchange. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Coca-Cola HBC has been named the industry leader among beverage companies in the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) and is also included in the FTSE4Good Index.

Coca-Cola HBC operates in 28 countries in 3 continents; its well established markets include Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, its developing markets include Poland, the Baltic States, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Croatia. Its emerging markets include Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Montenegro, Armenia, Moldova, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Nigeria.

The company’s stock is 23.3% owned by the Kar-Tess Holding (a Luxembourg company) and 23.2% by the Coca-Cola Company. The remaining 53.5% are in free float of which about two-thirds are held by UK and US institutional investors.

Type:                     Public

Traded as:           LSE: CCH; Athex: EEE

FTSE100:              Component

Industry:              food industry

Founded:

  • 1969 (Athens, Greece) (as Hellenic Bottling Company S.A.)
  • 2000 (as Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S.A.)
  • 2013 (as Coca-Cola HBC AG)

Headquarters:   Zug, Switzerland

Products:             Alcohol-free beverages

Owner:

  • Leventis-David Group (23%)
  • The Coca-Cola Company (22.9%)

Website:              www.coca-colahellenic.com

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