Coca-Cola Amatil
Coca-Cola Amatil is an Australian company that bottles Coca-Cola Company soft drinks in several countries. It is Australia's largest soft drink bottler.
As well as Coke and its various derivatives, the company produces a number of other soft drinks, including the Mount Franklin www.mountfranklinwater.com.au brand of still mineral water which use a unique structural countoured bottle designed in and especially for Australia, Deep Spring carbonated mineral watersFruitopia juices, Fanta, Lift lemon drinks, Bonaqua bottled water, Powerade sports drink, Sprite lemonade, and the Kirks range of lower-cost soft drinks.
The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola products in Australia, as well as New Zealand, Fiji, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and South Korea. CCA acquired the Northern Territory bottling license in 2004.
The Coca-Cola Company owns a minority interest in Coca-Cola Amatil, as it does with each of its primary bottlers in the Coca-Cola system, which it calls "anchor bottlers" around the world.
History
The company's Australian origins date 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, and it began to expand bottling operations overseas in Europe, purchasing a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Austria 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 Coca-Cola's ownership is 35%. 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 Brewing and the parent Coca-Cola Company. Its most recent purchase activity has been the acquisition of fruit producer and packager SPC Ardmona Ltd.
It currently employs 16,100 people in six countries across the Asia-Pacific, and had after-tax profits of 238 million AUD in the 2003 calendar year on revenues of 3,751 thousand million Australian dollars. Its share price consistently outperformed the ASX 200 market index over the past few years.
The company's managing director is Terry Davis, and the board chairman is David Gonski.