| Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE (http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=CCE)) is the largest bottler by volume
in the Coca-Cola System.
It is the anchor bottler for North America and parts of Europe.
The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola and its other soft drink products,
and in some areas a few other soft drink products, often Dr Pepper, in about 90%
of Canada, 75% of the United
States, all of the United Kingdom, except Northern Ireland, and all of France, Belgium, and The Netherlands. The parts of North America not controled by CCE are easier to list than those that are.
The primary areas under the control of other bottlers include most the mountain west, most parts of the south, northern New
England, Alaska, and the Canadian arctic.
The company was founded in 1986 with the purpose of consolidation of bottling in the
Coca-Cola System. Previously independent business in small geographic area, generall a central city or town and its hinterland,
bottled Coca-Cola products and distributed these to stores. The Coca-Cola Company began to buy up these bottlers in 1980 and then
spun this function off to anchor bottlers in varrious parts of the world.
Today the company is 30% owned by the Coca-Cola Company, while the remaining interest is floated on the stock market. The
company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia but seperate from
Coca-Cola itself.
The company produced in 2002 the equilivant of 4.4 billion unit cases of soft drinks. A
unit case is 192 ounces, or 24 standard servings. This represents about 21% of the total Coca-Cola production of Coca-Cola
worldwide.
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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