Coca-Cola Enterprises was a marketer, producer, and distributor of

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products. It was formerly the anchor bottler for

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and most of

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. Coca-Cola Enterprises' products included

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, Coke Zero, Sprite,

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, Chaudfontaine,

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and Relentless.

History

The Coca-Cola Company decided to consolidate the many independent bottling groups in the Coca-Cola System. Previously, independent businesses in remote geographic areas bottled Coca-Cola products and distributed the merchandise 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

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and the bottling operations of the

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. Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. was spun off from

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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 had its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia and was a separate corporation from The Coca-Cola Company; both companies are listed on the

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and are components of the

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. Similar anchor bottlers include the South Pacific area's

Coca-Cola Amatil Coca-Cola Amatil Limited (CCAL) 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 ...

, Eastern Europe's

Coca-Cola Hellenic Coca-Cola HBC AG, formerly 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 ...

, and

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Territories

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Some of its production facilities were located in Norway (

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), Sweden (

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), The Netherlands (

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), Belgium (

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and

Chaudfontaine :''Chaudfontaine is also a brand of mineral water, owned by The Coca-Cola Company.'' Chaudfontaine (; ) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Chaudfontaine had a total population of 21,012. ...

(mineral water only)), France ( Socx, Grigny,

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and Castanet-Tolosan), and the UK (

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and Morpeth).

Electric trucks

When Coca-Cola Enterprises was the anchor bottler in North America, it had the largest fleet of hybrid electric trucks in North America. The hybrid electric

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s were the standard bulk

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the company uses for large deliveries. CCE planned to deploy 185 of these hybrid electric trucks across the United States and Canada in 2009, bringing its total number of hybrid electric delivery trucks to 327, the largest such fleet in North America. The company already had 142 smaller hybrid electric delivery vehicles on the road. The trucks were powered by

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's hybrid electric drivetrain systems.

Sale of assets to The Coca-Cola Company

On February 24, 2010, The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Enterprises entered talks about selling CCE's North American division to Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola paid over $15 billion, including a redemption of Coca-Cola's 33% shareholding in CCE. Coca-Cola wanted the business in their asset list because they felt it would save both consumers and Coca-Cola money. Coca-Cola also spun off its small European bottling division to "New CCE". The acquisition closed on October 3, 2010.

Merger

On August 6, 2015, Coca-Cola Enterprises announced that it would merge with Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG, a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company, into a new company to be called

Coca-Cola European Partners Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc, also known as CCEP, is a British multinational bottling company operating as world's largest independent Coca-Cola bottler by net revenue. Involved in the marketing, production, and distribution of Coca-Cola ...

PLC.

References

External links

Coca-Cola Enterprises website
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