Sol Daurella Comadrán (born 1966) is a Spanish business executive. She is chairwoman of

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Early life and education

Sol Daurella was born in 1966 in

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, into a family with a long business tradition. She is the granddaughter of the Spanish importer of

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Santiago Daurella Rull and daughter of the

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José Daurella Franco. The Daurella family has been part of the

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global system since 1951, when they obtained the licence to bottle and distribute the Coca-Cola beverage in Spain, creating the first Spanish bottler. Sol Daurella was educated in an English school in

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, Switzerland, and obtained her degree in

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from

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, followed by

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from

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, and a master's degree in Finance from the

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. She speaks four languages.

Career

Daurella She began her professional career at Mac Group, a strategic consultancy firm, before joining the Coca-Cola System in 1992. Coca-Cola European Partners was created in May 2016, after the merger of Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, Coca-Cola Enterprises, and the German bottler. Before her appointment as Chairman of Coca-Cola European Partners, she had been CEO at Coca-Cola Iberian Partners. Daurella is chair of UK-based Coca-Cola European Partners, a consumer goods company that produces and distributes an extensive range of nonalcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in thirteen European countries including Spain, Portugal, Andorra, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland. Daurella is also a director of other Coca-Cola bottlers such as Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company, partially owned by TCCC, which operates in 12 countries in Western and Northern Africa. She is also co-chair of Grupo Cacaolat, a dairy company which produces cocoa milkshakes and is based in

, Spain, as well as CEO and chair of Cobega.

Other activities

Daurella has contributed her experience as a board member to a number of companies in the banking, construction, and energy sectors, as well as to other consumer goods companies. Between 2010 and 2014, she was on the boards of

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and

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. In November 2014, she became been a board member of

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, ranked Eurozone's largest bank by market value. She became

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for

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and has been involved with nonprofit organisations dedicated to cancer research, health and well-being, and education.

Recognition

In September 2023, Daurella was awarded the Premio Empresaria del Año (Businesswoman of the Year) in the inaugural

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, presented at the

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in 2023 by the King Felipe of Spain.

Personal life

Daurella was married to Joan Albiol, a former head of

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's beauty division, with whom she has two sons. She later married business executive with whom she has a daughter.

References

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